The Wisconsin Farmer, Volume 15D.J. Powers & Company, 1863 - Agriculture |
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... raising in Minnesota ,. 327 Pickles , how to make ,. 307 husbandry , importance to U. United States and Russia ... raising , Plowing , reasons for fall , .. 364 fever , 100 97 Unquiet milch cows ,. Utah , cotton culture ,. 287 92 ...
... raising in Minnesota ,. 327 Pickles , how to make ,. 307 husbandry , importance to U. United States and Russia ... raising , Plowing , reasons for fall , .. 364 fever , 100 97 Unquiet milch cows ,. Utah , cotton culture ,. 287 92 ...
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... raised 1860 . 10,900,500 18,244,708 12,100 500 9,284,000 heated , so as to form one mass , unless broken up . It breaks into small irregular fragments . The coals of Newcastle , whose extensive fields we had the pleasure of surveying ...
... raised 1860 . 10,900,500 18,244,708 12,100 500 9,284,000 heated , so as to form one mass , unless broken up . It breaks into small irregular fragments . The coals of Newcastle , whose extensive fields we had the pleasure of surveying ...
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... raise or fall the [ We will discuss this subject at some length of good vegetable soil is attained . The soil is in a subsequent number . - ED . ] any quantity of pumpkins , squashes , cucum - rebellion. Preparing Corn Ground . tubes at ...
... raise or fall the [ We will discuss this subject at some length of good vegetable soil is attained . The soil is in a subsequent number . - ED . ] any quantity of pumpkins , squashes , cucum - rebellion. Preparing Corn Ground . tubes at ...
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... raised it on the prairie for 4 or 5 years , and I have raised it one year on sand . I raised four times as much on sand as on prairie . So I conclude sandy land is best for chufa . I should like to hear from some one else . Is sandy ...
... raised it on the prairie for 4 or 5 years , and I have raised it one year on sand . I raised four times as much on sand as on prairie . So I conclude sandy land is best for chufa . I should like to hear from some one else . Is sandy ...
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... raising of peaches in the open orchard in this State . Sandy land with proper manuring will grow good fruit . - ED . Economy of Small Farms . The Maine Farmer , in an article on Chinese husbandry , deduces some conclusions in regard to ...
... raising of peaches in the open orchard in this State . Sandy land with proper manuring will grow good fruit . - ED . Economy of Small Farms . The Maine Farmer , in an article on Chinese husbandry , deduces some conclusions in regard to ...
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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.