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... Average Price of for 39 195 Years , 176 227 195 110 Albany Sanitary Fair . 121 BEES - Amount of Honey from , 99 225 American Pomological Society , .. 300 , 339 " Bee Bod , " 246 Exhibition of , 300 Best Books on , 292 Discussions at ...
... Average Price of for 39 195 Years , 176 227 195 110 Albany Sanitary Fair . 121 BEES - Amount of Honey from , 99 225 American Pomological Society , .. 300 , 339 " Bee Bod , " 246 Exhibition of , 300 Best Books on , 292 Discussions at ...
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... Average Yield per 379 Correction , .. 265 Cotton Culture in the U. States , 348 , 364 353 Cross Cut and Circular Sawing Ma- 47 Crown Imperials , Culture of , 47 Crows , Repelling , 322 Cultivation , Advantages of Thorough , 293 121 ...
... Average Yield per 379 Correction , .. 265 Cotton Culture in the U. States , 348 , 364 353 Cross Cut and Circular Sawing Ma- 47 Crown Imperials , Culture of , 47 Crows , Repelling , 322 Cultivation , Advantages of Thorough , 293 121 ...
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... average about the size of small plums . The large ones were from four to ten inches long SORGHUM IN WESTERN NEW ... average 45 lbs . milk per day , for 1274 days . Now I have two cows . They have been kept on a piece of ground 6 rods ...
... average about the size of small plums . The large ones were from four to ten inches long SORGHUM IN WESTERN NEW ... average 45 lbs . milk per day , for 1274 days . Now I have two cows . They have been kept on a piece of ground 6 rods ...
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... average more than one dollar per barrel . This is one view of the question ; we propose to present another . Apple - trees are more easy to raise and more rapid of growth , and yield more abundantly than pear - trees . They are less ...
... average more than one dollar per barrel . This is one view of the question ; we propose to present another . Apple - trees are more easy to raise and more rapid of growth , and yield more abundantly than pear - trees . They are less ...
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... average value be placed at $ 1.25 per acre , it gives 300,000 . The endowment , there- fore , aside from the farm and buildings , cannot be placed at less than $ 330,000 , and at 7 per cent . interest , this will give an annual income ...
... average value be placed at $ 1.25 per acre , it gives 300,000 . The endowment , there- fore , aside from the farm and buildings , cannot be placed at less than $ 330,000 , and at 7 per cent . interest , this will give an annual income ...
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Page 266 - 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 158 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended, and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
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Page 351 - The ground was strewed with broken limbs of trees, eggs, and young squab pigeons, which had been precipitated from above, and on which herds of hogs were fattening. Hawks, buzzards, and eagles, were sailing about in great numbers, and seizing the squabs from...
Page 351 - Not far from Shelbyville, in the State of Kentucky, about five years ago, there was one of these breeding-places, which stretched through the woods in nearly a north and south direction, was several miles in breadth, and was said to be upwards of forty miles in extent ! In this tract almost every tree was furnished with nests wherever the branches could accommodate them.
Page 158 - In his domesticated state, when he commences his career of song, it is impossible to stand by uninterested. He whistles for the dog — Ctcsar starts up, wags his tail, and runs to meet his master ; he squeaks out like a hurt chicken — and the hen hurries about with hanging wings and bristling feathers, clucking to protect her injured brood. The barking of the dog, the mewing of the cat, the creaking of a passing wheelbarrow, follow with great truth and rapidity.
Page 351 - ... of the trees, the view through the woods presented a perpetual tumult of crowding and fluttering multitudes of pigeons, their wings roaring like thunder, mingled with the frequent crash of falling timber...
Page 333 - A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time. But that happeneth rarely. Generally youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and as...
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Page 351 - Several of them informed me, that the noise in the woods was so great as to terrify their horses, and that it was difficult for one person to hear another speak, without bawling in his ear. The ground was strewed with broken limbs of trees, eggs, and young squab pigeons, which had been precipitated from above, and on which herds of hogs were fattening.