Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Volumen29

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Página 324 - When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Página 324 - For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Página 313 - England, where consumption can be said, by statistics, never to have occurred. In choosing a site for a dwelling-house, the great desideratum is to obtain, not a perfectly arid place, for no such spot could be inhabited by man, but it should be in a portion of the township which is neither so high as to be exposed to violent gusts of weather, nor so low that moisture will collect around it. Let it be on the side of a hill, or plain, open to the south, and, if possible, defended from the north and...
Página 324 - Then Israel sang this song, SPRING up, O well; sing ye unto it: The princes digged the well, The nobles of the people digged it, By the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves.
Página 275 - Ladies and gentlemen, I now have the pleasure of introducing to you Capt. MOORE of Concord, who will address you on fruit-culture.
Página 108 - He is going to tell us something which is worth knowing, and which the whole world should know. I introduce to you Mr. JB MOORE of Concord, who will speak to you on 'The Management of Cultivated Mowing-Lands:' and if there is anybody, in my opinion, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, who understands the subject, it is Capt. Moore. He needs no introduction, because everybody who has ever had any thing to do with agriculture...
Página 331 - ... closed stables. Scarcely any horses were sick, and only one case of glanders occurred.:}: In the English cavalry (and in English racing stables) the same facts are well known. Wilkinson§ informs us that the annual mortality of cavalry horses (which -was formerly great) is now reduced to 20 per 1000, of which one-half is from accidents and incurable diseases. Glanders and farcy have almost disappeared, and if a case occurs, it is considered evidence of neglect.
Página 416 - College is based was passed by both Houses of Congress, received the signature of the President, and became a law.
Página 105 - Napoleon's time were made subjects for fun and ridicule. The emperor himself did not escape the lampoons of the wits of the age. A caricature was exhibited in Paris, in which the emperor and the baby king of Rome were the prominent characters. The emperor was represented as sitting in the nursery with a cup of coffee before him, into which he was squeezing a beet-root. Near him was seated the King of Rome voraciously sucking a beet-root ; while the nurse, standing near and steadfastly observing,...
Página 358 - Total phosphoric acid, Soluble phosphoric acid, Reverted phosphoric acid, . Insoluble phosphoric acid, . Nitrogen, .... Insoluble matter, Per Cent.

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