Yearbook of agriculture. 1894U.S. Government Printing Office, 1895 - Agriculture |
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... pounds 546 Human foods Composition of different food materials - refuse , water , nutrients — and fuel value per pound ..... 547 547 Nutrients obtained for 10 cents in different foods at ordinary prices ... Prices used in estimating ...
... pounds 546 Human foods Composition of different food materials - refuse , water , nutrients — and fuel value per pound ..... 547 547 Nutrients obtained for 10 cents in different foods at ordinary prices ... Prices used in estimating ...
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... pounds , making a dead weight of about 750 pounds . In England the offal ( especially in London and Liverpool , where large numbers of poor people purchase it ) is considered of great importance . Heads , tails , livers , kidneys ...
... pounds , making a dead weight of about 750 pounds . In England the offal ( especially in London and Liverpool , where large numbers of poor people purchase it ) is considered of great importance . Heads , tails , livers , kidneys ...
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... pounds , against one hun- dred and seventy - nine million eight hundred and seventy - two thousand ( 179,872,000 ) pounds during the corresponding nine months of 1893 . Thus our trade with Great Britain in hog products shows an increase ...
... pounds , against one hun- dred and seventy - nine million eight hundred and seventy - two thousand ( 179,872,000 ) pounds during the corresponding nine months of 1893 . Thus our trade with Great Britain in hog products shows an increase ...
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... pounds . In the fall of 1893 English bacon was commanding nearly as high prices as in October , 1894. The decline in the best grades of Irish bacon during the same period represents about half a dollar per cwt . ( 112 pounds ) . There ...
... pounds . In the fall of 1893 English bacon was commanding nearly as high prices as in October , 1894. The decline in the best grades of Irish bacon during the same period represents about half a dollar per cwt . ( 112 pounds ) . There ...
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... pounds to 190 pounds Under 210 pounds .... Under 230 pounds .... Thickness of fat in any part of the back . Price per 20 pounds . s . d . 21 inches and under .... Not exceeding 24 inches Not exceeding 23 inches Not exceeding 3 inches ...
... pounds to 190 pounds Under 210 pounds .... Under 230 pounds .... Thickness of fat in any part of the back . Price per 20 pounds . s . d . 21 inches and under .... Not exceeding 24 inches Not exceeding 23 inches Not exceeding 3 inches ...
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Page 63 - 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 111 - Territory shall be twenty-five thousand dollars, to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction...
Page 83 - I have heretofore proposed to the consideration of Congress, the expediency of establishing a national university, and also a military academy. The desirableness of both these institutions has so constantly increased with every new view I have taken of the subject, that I cannot omit the opportunity of once for all recalling your attention to them.
Page 109 - That bulletins or reports of progress shall be published at said stations at least once in three months, one copy of which shall be sent to each newspaper in the States or Territories in which they are respectively located, and to such individuals actually engaged in farming as may request the same, and as far as the means of the station will permit.
Page 109 - That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment stations to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject with the remedies for the same...
Page 83 - Among the means, which have been employed to this end, none have been attended with greater success than the establishment of boards, composed of proper characters, charged with collecting and diffusing information, and enabled by premiums, and small pecuniary aids, to encourage and assist a spirit of discovery and improvement.
Page 95 - ... 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 order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Page 504 - Their terms of office shall be so arranged and designated at the time of their appointment that the term of one member shall expire in three years, one in two years and one in one year. The full term of office thereafter shall be for three years, and all vacancies occurring shall be filled by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council.
Page 83 - It will not be doubted that with reference either to individual or national welfare agriculture is of primary importance. In proportion as nations advance in population and other circumstances of maturity this truth becomes more apparent, and renders the cultivation of the soil more and more an object of public patronage. Institutions for promoting it grow up, supported by the public purse; and to what object can it be dedicated with greater propriety...
Page 96 - No portion of said fund nor the interest thereon, shall be applied directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings.