The Wisconsin Farmer, Volume 15D.J. Powers & Company, 1863 - Agriculture |
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... Corn ground , preparing , Corn as fuel , ... 8 53 371 61 husks for paper , .. Cotton , culture in Utah ,. Ceylon at world's fair , .. Chaplains , army ...... 22 92 317 23 30 Cheat mountain , a night on , ...... 204 Chickens , setting ...
... Corn ground , preparing , Corn as fuel , ... 8 53 371 61 husks for paper , .. Cotton , culture in Utah ,. Ceylon at world's fair , .. Chaplains , army ...... 22 92 317 23 30 Cheat mountain , a night on , ...... 204 Chickens , setting ...
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... corn 88 , .................. .. Female teachers ,. Barmer , a good ,. Farmer's life , the , ............ the road to poor , ...... 250 Honey locust .. 10 Honesty , commercial , .363 , 407 Home comforts .... 391 322 Home , courtesey at ...
... corn 88 , .................. .. Female teachers ,. Barmer , a good ,. Farmer's life , the , ............ the road to poor , ...... 250 Honey locust .. 10 Honesty , commercial , .363 , 407 Home comforts .... 391 322 Home , courtesey at ...
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... surface is ex- ceedingly smooth and soap - like ; which pro- perty , added to its lightness , and hardness must give it great value in the construction of those Preparing Corn Ground . tubes at once , at least THE WISCONSIN FARMER .
... surface is ex- ceedingly smooth and soap - like ; which pro- perty , added to its lightness , and hardness must give it great value in the construction of those Preparing Corn Ground . tubes at once , at least THE WISCONSIN FARMER .
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... corn . In a very productive summer , or when a farmer has been unfortu- nate with his stock , he may with advantage mow such parts of his pastures as can be spar- ed for the purpose . It is superfluous for me to say that on a very large ...
... corn . In a very productive summer , or when a farmer has been unfortu- nate with his stock , he may with advantage mow such parts of his pastures as can be spar- ed for the purpose . It is superfluous for me to say that on a very large ...
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... Corn Ground . tubes at once , at least one foot clear of the ground ; a similar contrivance to raise each tube separately , so that one or all the tubes can be cleared of any sods or other obstructions to successful covering of the seed ...
... Corn Ground . tubes at once , at least one foot clear of the ground ; a similar contrivance to raise each tube separately , so that one or all the tubes can be cleared of any sods or other obstructions to successful covering of the seed ...
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Page 280 - And the proud man sighed, with a secret pain, "Ah, that I were free again ! "Free as when I rode that day. Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door. But care and sorrow, and childbirth pain, Left their traces on heart and brain. And oft, when the summer sun shone hot On the new-mown hay in the meadow lot, And she heard the little spring brook fall...
Page 197 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Page 196 - It might be months, or years, or days, I kept no count — I took no note, I had no hope my eyes to raise, And clear them of their dreary mote...
Page 299 - The design of the institution, in fulfillment of the injunction of the constitution, is to afford thorough instruction in agriculture and the natural sciences connected therewith. To effect that object most completely the institution shall combine physical with intellectual education and shall be a high seminary of learning in which the graduate of the common school can commence, pursue, and finish a course of study terminating in thorough theoretic and practical instruction in those sciences and...
Page 115 - If we work upon marble, it will perish ; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of our fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets something which will brighten to all eternity.
Page 343 - The fellow laughed, thinking, no doubt, I was joking with him. " What have you got? said another; I gave him the same answer. When they were dividing the spoil, I was called to an eminence where the chief stood. " What property have you got, my little fellow ?" said he. "I have told two of your people already," I replied; "I have forty dinars sewed in my garments." He ordered them to be ripped open, and found my money.
Page 280 - But low of cattle and song of birds, And health and quiet and loving words." But he thought of his sisters proud and cold, And his mother vain of her rank and gold. So, closing his heart, the Judge rode on, And Maud was left in the field alone.
Page 150 - Alas ! how many examples are now present to my memory, of young men the most anxiously and expensively be-school-mastered, be-tutored, be-lectured, any thing but educated ; who have received arms and ammunition, instead of skill, strength, and courage ; varnished rather than polished ; perilously over-civilized, and most pitiably uncultivated ! And all from inattention to the method dictated by nature herself, to the simple truth, that as the forms in all organized existence, so must all true and...
Page 74 - Celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house and gathers sweetness from every flower...
Page 280 - He would dress me up in silks so fine, And praise and toast me at his wine. My father should wear a broadcloth coat, My brother should sail a painted boat.