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... , N. H. , and giving evidence of unusual thrift , it was protected and allowed to spread itself at will . 205 pods matured upon it , containing 1218 beans . I have another experience , just ten years ago . 12 Jan. THE CULTIVATCR .
... , N. H. , and giving evidence of unusual thrift , it was protected and allowed to spread itself at will . 205 pods matured upon it , containing 1218 beans . I have another experience , just ten years ago . 12 Jan. THE CULTIVATCR .
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... experience on the subject . I have had the past season over fifty hives of bees , more than half of them in movable comb hives - but very few other hives for several miles around , and none less than one mile . The result this fall is ...
... experience on the subject . I have had the past season over fifty hives of bees , more than half of them in movable comb hives - but very few other hives for several miles around , and none less than one mile . The result this fall is ...
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... experience both on agricultural education and on the management of schools for im- parting it . We have already exceeded our limits , and can only add our regret at not having been able to remain through the two following days . The ...
... experience both on agricultural education and on the management of schools for im- parting it . We have already exceeded our limits , and can only add our regret at not having been able to remain through the two following days . The ...
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... experience in regard to the time of ripening , and value of different varieties of hardy na- tive grapes . Such statements , carefully made , are of much greater value than the vague and interested state- ments of nursery catalogues ...
... experience in regard to the time of ripening , and value of different varieties of hardy na- tive grapes . Such statements , carefully made , are of much greater value than the vague and interested state- ments of nursery catalogues ...
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... experience . Last spring I was induced by one of my neighbors to try the experiment on a five acre lot which I had sown with barley and finished harrowing in . On this I sowed one bushel of flax seed , being a trifle more than 6 quarts ...
... experience . Last spring I was induced by one of my neighbors to try the experiment on a five acre lot which I had sown with barley and finished harrowing in . On this I sowed one bushel of flax seed , being a trifle more than 6 quarts ...
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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...
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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.