Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Volume 37W. White, 1890 - Agriculture |
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... months , when farming operations must be at a standstill . The loss to the farmers in this direction caused by the mild winter of 1888-89 was severely felt . The present winter has been of like character , and the inconvenience and loss ...
... months , when farming operations must be at a standstill . The loss to the farmers in this direction caused by the mild winter of 1888-89 was severely felt . The present winter has been of like character , and the inconvenience and loss ...
Page ix
... monthly during the summer and fall of the last two seasons was also paid from this fund . The usefulness of this publication in a State situated like Massachusetts cannot be as great as a report that would take in the whole country ...
... monthly during the summer and fall of the last two seasons was also paid from this fund . The usefulness of this publication in a State situated like Massachusetts cannot be as great as a report that would take in the whole country ...
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... month , said blanks to be filled out and returned to us on the first day of the month following . These returns when received were to be compiled into a crop report or bulletin , and mailed as soon as practicable to such parties as it ...
... month , said blanks to be filled out and returned to us on the first day of the month following . These returns when received were to be compiled into a crop report or bulletin , and mailed as soon as practicable to such parties as it ...
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... month was warm and dry . Rain set in on the morning of the 20th , and fell almost every day during the remainder of the month . Slight frosts were reported as occurring on the mornings of the 27th , 28th , and 29th , but scarcely any ...
... month was warm and dry . Rain set in on the morning of the 20th , and fell almost every day during the remainder of the month . Slight frosts were reported as occurring on the mornings of the 27th , 28th , and 29th , but scarcely any ...
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... month , the following questions were asked : " 1. What insects are doing the most damage in your vicinity ? 2. What date did hay- ing commence in your vicinity ? 3. Is the hay crop up to last year's crop in quantity and quality ? 4. Is ...
... month , the following questions were asked : " 1. What insects are doing the most damage in your vicinity ? 2. What date did hay- ing commence in your vicinity ? 3. Is the hay crop up to last year's crop in quantity and quality ? 4. Is ...
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66 cellulose 66 protein nitrogenous acre Amherst Analyses Analysis of Dry animals asparagus average Bone Boston breeding butter Calcium oxide cents per pound cheese clover corn ensilage corn fodder corn meal corn stover Cost of Feed cows cream Creamery crop Crude ash dairy digestible disease Dry Matter eggs ensilage Experiment Station farm farmers Feed consumed Fertilizer Company Fertilizing Constituents fodder articles fungi fungus gestibility Constituents gluten meal Grade Jersey grain green inches Insoluble matter July June land Magnesium oxide manure Mass Massachusetts meal and bran Moisture at 100 muriate of potash nitrate of soda Non-nitrogenous extract matter Nutritive Ratio Pasture Nov phosphoric acid plants Plat potash Potassium oxide potatoes Pounds Digesti production profit protein nitrogenous matter question Rowen scab Sept skim-milk Sodium oxide soil spores Sugar Beets Superphosphate Total Amount trees tuberculosis Valuation wheat bran Worcester
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Page 320 - So live, that when thy summons comes, to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 279 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Page 288 - ... individual or national welfare, agriculture is of primary importance. In proportion as nations advance in population and other circumstances of maturity this truth becomes more apparent, and renders the cultivation of the soil more and more an object of public patronage. Institutions for promoting it grow up, supported by the public purse; and to what object can it be dedicated with greater propriety?
Page 239 - ... or material sampled, the name of the party from whose stock the sample was drawn, and the time and place of drawing, and said label shall also be signed by the person taking the sample and by the party or parties in interest, or their representative present at the drawing and...
Page 288 - ... and diffusing information, and enabled by premiums, and small pecuniary aids, to encourage and assist a spirit of discovery and improvement. This species of establishment contributes doubly to the increase of improvement, by stimulating to enterprise and experiment, and by drawing to a common centre the results everywhere of individual skill and observation, and spreading them thence over the whole nation. Experience accordingly has shown, that they are very cheap instruments of immense national...
Page 238 - ... provided, that whenever the manufacturer or importer shall have paid the fee herein required for any person acting as agent or seller for such manufacturer or importer, such agent or seller shall not be required to pay the fee named in this...
Page 288 - I have heretofore proposed to the consideration of Congress, the expediency of establishing a national university, and also a military academy. The desirableness of both these institutions has so constantly increased with every new view I have taken of the subject, that I cannot omit the opportunity of once for all recalling your attention to them.
Page 239 - Secretary, upon thus ascertaining any violation of this act, to forthwith notify the manufacturer, importer or dealer in writing, and give him not less than thirty days thereafter in which to comply with the requirements of this...
Page 239 - Statutes are hereby repealed. SECT. 9. This act shall take effect on the first day of September in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.
Page 237 - ... the place of manufacture, and a chemical analysis stating the percentage of nitrogen, or its equivalent in ammonia...