The New England Farmer, Volume 14J. Nourse, 1862 - Agriculture |
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... hundred and forty - four pounds avoirdupois are equal to 175 pounds Troy - 175 ounces Troy are equal to 192 ounces avoirdupois . All precious metals are bought and sold by Troy weight . The kilogramme of France is 1,000 grammes , and ...
... hundred and forty - four pounds avoirdupois are equal to 175 pounds Troy - 175 ounces Troy are equal to 192 ounces avoirdupois . All precious metals are bought and sold by Troy weight . The kilogramme of France is 1,000 grammes , and ...
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... hundred times its own weight of water must be added to it . He will see at once that if it requires four hundred pounds or pints of water to dissolve one pound of plaster , and thus reduce it to a state in which alone it can act on the ...
... hundred times its own weight of water must be added to it . He will see at once that if it requires four hundred pounds or pints of water to dissolve one pound of plaster , and thus reduce it to a state in which alone it can act on the ...
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... hundred standard pear trees ; that is , trees pear raising , in re- set in place and not to be removed , though most lation to both trees of them are on quince stocks , -beside large num- and fruit . Mr. Bacon was accus - bers of young ...
... hundred standard pear trees ; that is , trees pear raising , in re- set in place and not to be removed , though most lation to both trees of them are on quince stocks , -beside large num- and fruit . Mr. Bacon was accus - bers of young ...
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... hundred thousand papers , containing one hundred and fifty - four varieties of vegetable and two hundred and thirty varieties of flower seeds - many of them new and very choice , and others very old and excellent kinds , but not in ...
... hundred thousand papers , containing one hundred and fifty - four varieties of vegetable and two hundred and thirty varieties of flower seeds - many of them new and very choice , and others very old and excellent kinds , but not in ...
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... hundred and twenty - five thousand ; to Boston , thirty - five thousand ; to Philadelphia , thirty - one thousand ; and to Baltimore , where the sand . This is less by fifty thousand boxes than season closed earlier than usual , only ...
... hundred and twenty - five thousand ; to Boston , thirty - five thousand ; to Philadelphia , thirty - one thousand ; and to Baltimore , where the sand . This is less by fifty thousand boxes than season closed earlier than usual , only ...
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Page 62 - Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, nought cares he For number or proportion.
Page 368 - T is heaven alone that is given away, 'T is only God may be had for the asking; There is no price set on the lavish summer, And June may be had by the poorest comer.
Page 273 - Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on Earth...
Page 348 - That there shall be at the seat of Government a Department of Labor, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.
Page 364 - Every one's a funny fellow; every one's a little mellow: Follow, follow, follow, follow, o'er the hill and in the hollow! Merrily, merrily, there they hie; now they rise and now they fly; They cross and turn, and in and out, and down in the middle, and wheel about, — With a "Phew, shew, Wadolincon! listen to me, Bobolincon! — Happy's the wooing that's speedily doing, that's speedily doing, That's merry and over with the bloom of the clover! Bobolincon, Wadolincon, Winterseeble, follow, follow...
Page 62 - Maugre the farmer's sighs; and at the gate A tapering turret overtops the work. And when his hours are numbered, and the world Is all his own, retiring, as he were not, Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone, Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work, The frolic architecture of the snow.
Page 348 - ... to test, by cultivation, the value of such of them as may require such tests ; to propagate such as may be worthy of propagation, and to distribute them among agriculturists.
Page 421 - Two hundred pounds of earth were dried in an oven, and afterwards put into a large earthen vessel ; the earth was then moistened with rain-water, and a willow tree weighing five pounds was planted therein. During the space of five years the earth was carefully watered with rain-water or pure water.
Page 154 - We are living, we are dwelling, In a grand and awful time, In an age on ages telling, To be living is sublime.
Page 62 - ANNOUNCED by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farm-house 'at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.