Report of the Secretary of Agriculture ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1862 - Agriculture |
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... Head to the New Hampshire line , 200 miles . The area of the State comprises 31,766 square miles , or 20,330,240 acres . According to the census of 1860 , the number of acres in farms was 5,700,675 , while the number of acres under ...
... Head to the New Hampshire line , 200 miles . The area of the State comprises 31,766 square miles , or 20,330,240 acres . According to the census of 1860 , the number of acres in farms was 5,700,675 , while the number of acres under ...
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... head , but well proportioned body and legs . " His form and general appearance indicated a powerful animal , but he never exhibited any of those qualities which would have entitled him to be called " a fast horse . " When his colts came ...
... head , but well proportioned body and legs . " His form and general appearance indicated a powerful animal , but he never exhibited any of those qualities which would have entitled him to be called " a fast horse . " When his colts came ...
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... Head lake , where corn is not grown ; but at Monson , ( Piscataquis county , ) a dozen miles southwest of Greenville , good corn is raised . Large crops of corn are also raised at Golden Ridge , in Aroostook county , although there are ...
... Head lake , where corn is not grown ; but at Monson , ( Piscataquis county , ) a dozen miles southwest of Greenville , good corn is raised . Large crops of corn are also raised at Golden Ridge , in Aroostook county , although there are ...
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... head of all the wheat - growing States in the aggregate of her production . Her crop in 1850 was twenty - eight millions of bushels , being nearly sixteen and a half bushels to each inhabitant . " Thus the reports of the geological ...
... head of all the wheat - growing States in the aggregate of her production . Her crop in 1850 was twenty - eight millions of bushels , being nearly sixteen and a half bushels to each inhabitant . " Thus the reports of the geological ...
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... ferred to , the annual wheat product of Prussia is stated to be 20,000,000 bushels , and the consumption per head 105 pounds . These , I presume , are Prussian bushels and pounds ; if so , this amount is THE WHEAT PLANT 71.
... ferred to , the annual wheat product of Prussia is stated to be 20,000,000 bushels , and the consumption per head 105 pounds . These , I presume , are Prussian bushels and pounds ; if so , this amount is THE WHEAT PLANT 71.
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Page 201 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce ; From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice...
Page 5 - Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 79 - I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the Lord.
Page 6 - Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 117 - This explanation is simple justice to western cultivators, whose knowledge of the culture seems impugned in the transactions of the Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry...
Page 286 - After breakfast, accompanied by Col° Wadsworth, Mr. [Oliver] Ellsworth and Col° Jesse Root, I viewed the Woolen Manufactory at this place, which seems to be going on with spirit. Their Broadcloths are not of the first quality, as yet, but they are good ; as are their Coatings, Cassimeres, Serges and Everlastings; of the first, that is, broad-cloth, I ordered a suit to be sent to me at New York — and of the latter a whole piece, to make breeches for my servants. All the parts of this business...
Page 457 - Then the door was shut. I heard no more. They had but flung this great agony in upon me, and left me alone with it again.
Page 446 - a special mineralization producing a bituminous matter instead of coal or lignite. This operation is not attributable to heat, nor of the nature of a distillation, but is due to chemical reactions at the ordinary temperature, and under the normal conditions of climate.
Page 285 - Manufacture, and I myself have seen Serge made upon Long Island that any man may wear. Now, if they begin to make Serge, they will, in time, make coarse Cloth, and then fine ; we have as good fullers...
Page 29 - Nobody, however, who has paid any attention to the peculiar features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end, to which, indeed, all history points — the realization of the unity of mankind.