| Joseph Edward A. Smith - 1876 - 896 pages
...books. For the few years preceding that in which Mr. Watson removed to Pittslield, the attention of the New York Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, Arts and Manufactures was turned specially and very earnestly to the improvement of the breeds of sheep in relation to the... | |
| Pittsfield (Mass.) - 1876 - 858 pages
...books. For the few years preceding that in which Mr. Watson removed to Pittsfield, the attention of the New York Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, Arts and Manufactures was turned specially and very earnestly to the improvement of the breeds of sheep in relation to the... | |
| American Forestry Congress - Forests and forestry - 1886 - 120 pages
...recommendation of tree-planting by any society or public body of men, so far as I am aware, was made in 1791 by the New York Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, Arts, and Manufactures. A committee was appointed for the purpose of considering the best mode of preserving and increasing... | |
| United States. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1895 - 632 pages
...referred in his lectures to the agricultural features of this science. We know that he was active in the New York Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, Arts, and Manufactures, and that he wrote essays on the chemistry of manures. He was retired in 1801, having been elected a... | |
| Agriculture - 1895 - 634 pages
...19, 1795. The present State Agricultural Society of South Carolina still holds the original charter. The New York Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, Arts, and Manufactures was organized February 26, 1791, and about the same time a society was formed at Kenuebec, Mass, (now... | |
| Nicholas Murray Butler - Education - 1900 - 538 pages
...other things, to establish an experimental farm — the first suggestion of the kind in our history. The New York society for the promotion of agriculture, arts and manufactures, which had been organized on the 26th of February, 1/91, published its first small volume of transactions... | |
| Agriculture - 1900 - 1020 pages
...forest destruction came protest and action against it. In the last decade of the eighteenth century the New York Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, Arts, and Manufactures, and in the first years of the nineteenth, the Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of Agriculture,... | |
| Nicholas Murray Butler - Education - 1900 - 538 pages
...other things, to establish an experimental farm — the first suggestion of the kind in our history. The New York society for the promotion of agriculture, arts and manufactures, which had been organized on the 26th of February, 1791, published its first small volume of transactions... | |
| Frederick Converse Beach, Forrest Morgan, E. T. Roe, George Edwin Rines, Nathan Haskell Dole, Edward Thomas Roe, Thomas Campbell Copeland - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1903 - 930 pages
...other things, to establish an experimental farm — the first suggestion of the kind in our history. The New York society for the promotion of agriculture, arts, and manufactures, which had been organized on 26 Feb. 1791, published its first small volume of transactions in 1792.... | |
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