Legislative Document, Volume 21J.B. Lyon Company, 1920 - New York (State) |
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A. A. ALLEN acid acre alsike amount animals apples apron average Babcock test bacteria baste beans BEEKEEPING bees birds breeding BRISTOW ADAMS brown bull bushels butter cabbage calf calves cattle cent cloth College of Agriculture color corn Cornell Reading Course CORNELL UNIVERSITY cost cover cows cream crops cultivation dairy discussion paper disease early edge eggs farm bureau farmers feed feet flower fruit girls grain growing grown herd inches insects ITHACA kimono labor lesson Lordstown machine manure MARTHA VAN RENSSELAER material method milk necessary nest oats ounce pasture pattern pigs pipette plants potatoes pounds production rows running stitch seam season seed sewing sheep silage silt loam sirup skimmilk sleeve soil stamens stitch sugar supply surface test bottle thrift thru trees tuberculin tuberculosis wheat winter Yates County YORK STATE COLLEGE
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Page 1155 - The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings; He sings to the wide world and she to her nest,— In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best?
Page 1156 - Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge- — That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture!
Page 1201 - The antler'd monarch of the waste Sprung from his heathery couch in haste. But, ere his fleet career he took, The dew-drops from his flanks he shook ; Like crested leader proud and high...
Page 1200 - Little lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee, Gave thee life, and bid thee feed By the stream and o'er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing, woolly, bright; Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice?
Page 1111 - Ye that have faith to look with fearless eyes, Beyond the tragedy of a world at strife, And know that out of death and night shall rise The dawn of ampler life.
Page 1305 - The children of that distant day Thus to some aged man shall say; And gazing on its mossy stem, The gray-haired man shall answer them: "A poet of the land was he, Born in the rude but good old times; Tis said he made some quaint old rhymes On planting the apple tree.
Page 1266 - tis the lullaby Time is singing — Hush, and heed not, for all things pass, Hush, ah, hush! and the Scythes are swinging Over the clover, over the grass ! — Andrew Lang.
Page 1464 - ... so lightens and sweetens toil as the hopeful pursuit of such discovery. And how vast and how varied a field is agriculture for such discovery! The mind, already trained to...
Page 1610 - Finally, it would be a master stroke if those great powers honestly bent on peace would form a League of Peace, not only to keep the peace among themselves, but to prevent, by force if necessary, its being broken by others.
Page 1219 - I'VE watched you now a full half-hour, Self-poised upon that yellow flower ; And, little Butterfly ! indeed I know not if you sleep or feed. How motionless ! — not frozen seas More motionless ! and then What joy awaits you, when the breeze Hath found you out among the trees, And calls you forth again ! This plot of Orchard-ground is ours ; My trees they are, my Sister's flowers ; Here rest your wings when they are weary ; Here lodge as in a sanctuary...