The New England Farmer, Volume 14J. Nourse, 1862 - Agriculture |
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... land , seeding in the spring , 111 ; timo- thy , in Southern Ohio , 157 ; seeding land to , 174 ; Hungarian , 205 , 503 ; cost of cut- ting , 256 ; manures for , 405 ; crop of , 415 ; hoppers , habits of , 416 ; beauty of the , Guano ...
... land , seeding in the spring , 111 ; timo- thy , in Southern Ohio , 157 ; seeding land to , 174 ; Hungarian , 205 , 503 ; cost of cut- ting , 256 ; manures for , 405 ; crop of , 415 ; hoppers , habits of , 416 ; beauty of the , Guano ...
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... land is so thoroughly drained , and so open and of fully and light , that a fortnight's rain , he says , makes realizing some no difference in its appearance . of the marvel- lous stories we The piece of land we went over is something ...
... land is so thoroughly drained , and so open and of fully and light , that a fortnight's rain , he says , makes realizing some no difference in its appearance . of the marvel- lous stories we The piece of land we went over is something ...
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... land , time , and labor . 3. In order to attain this object , the husband- man must have capital , that is , money for the necessary expenditures ; labor , or hands for the operations required ; knowledge of the best ways of working ...
... land , time , and labor . 3. In order to attain this object , the husband- man must have capital , that is , money for the necessary expenditures ; labor , or hands for the operations required ; knowledge of the best ways of working ...
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... land needs manuring , it pays to ma- nure well . Suppose ten dollars ' worth of manure on an acre of land gives you a crop worth thirty dollars , and twenty dollars ' worth gives you a crop worth only forty dollars , you are still the ...
... land needs manuring , it pays to ma- nure well . Suppose ten dollars ' worth of manure on an acre of land gives you a crop worth thirty dollars , and twenty dollars ' worth gives you a crop worth only forty dollars , you are still the ...
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... land . But the man who wants a home for his family and his posterity , must own the land he cultivates , and then every acre he drains , every tree he plants , every load of manure he plows into it , will add to its permanent riches ...
... land . But the man who wants a home for his family and his posterity , must own the land he cultivates , and then every acre he drains , every tree he plants , every load of manure he plows into it , will add to its permanent riches ...
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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.