Agriculture of Pennsylvania, Volumen11"Containing reports of the State Board of Agriculture, the State Agricultural Society, the State Dairymen's Association, the State Fruit Growers' Association, and the State College, for ..." (varies). |
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For seven years , or from 1880 to 1886 inclusive , our crops , their average yield ,
price per bushel and value per acre , have been as follows : YEAR . Area of
wheat crop . Acres . Average yield per acre - Bushels . Average price per bushel .
For seven years , or from 1880 to 1886 inclusive , our crops , their average yield ,
price per bushel and value per acre , have been as follows : YEAR . Area of
wheat crop . Acres . Average yield per acre - Bushels . Average price per bushel .
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We may show a young man of thirty that a plantation of twenty - five or thirty acres
would be immensely profitable when he reached sixty . It would be a nice laying
up of money for old age ; or a capital iife insurance for his family , in case of an ...
We may show a young man of thirty that a plantation of twenty - five or thirty acres
would be immensely profitable when he reached sixty . It would be a nice laying
up of money for old age ; or a capital iife insurance for his family , in case of an ...
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... by which to get accurate figures of this kind . It is certain , however , that the
present rate of growth is comparatively slow . I have tried to have practical
lumbermen give me the value per acre of this young timber , but on account of the
small ...
... by which to get accurate figures of this kind . It is certain , however , that the
present rate of growth is comparatively slow . I have tried to have practical
lumbermen give me the value per acre of this young timber , but on account of the
small ...
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With an annual appropriation commensurate with its importance , hundreds of
millions of acres of territory now condemned as an irreclaimable desert and
almost unfit for any agricultural purpose , could , with a comparative ...
With an annual appropriation commensurate with its importance , hundreds of
millions of acres of territory now condemned as an irreclaimable desert and
almost unfit for any agricultural purpose , could , with a comparative ...
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On this head I will only say here what I have long been trying to inculcate , that no
farm should be without a fruit garden of at least an acre , devoted to the culture of
all kinds of fruit and vegetables . This , if properly managed and worked with ...
On this head I will only say here what I have long been trying to inculcate , that no
farm should be without a fruit garden of at least an acre , devoted to the culture of
all kinds of fruit and vegetables . This , if properly managed and worked with ...
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Página 24 - 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; the chemical composition of useful plants at their different stages of growth; the comparative advantages of rotative cropping as pursued under a varying series of crops; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation; the analysis of soils and water; the...
Página 24 - That in order to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science...
Página 77 - I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander, darkling, in the eternal space, Rayless and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air...
Página 24 - AN ACT To establish agricultural experiment stations In connection with the colleges established In the several States under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto...
Página 24 - ... the analysis of soils and water; the chemical composition of manures, natural or artificial, with experiments designed to test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese; and such other researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry...
Página 21 - Something there is more needful than Expense, And something previous ev'n to Taste — 'tis Sense : Good Sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And, though no Science, fairly worth the seven...
Página 21 - Writers, who have given us an account of China, tell us the inhabitants of that country laugh at the plantations of our Europeans, which are laid out by the rule and line; because they say, any one may place trees in equal rows and uniform figures. They choose rather to show a genius in works of this nature; and therefore always conceal the art by which they direct themselves.
Página 24 - That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of the Treasury from the annual statement of receipts and expenditures of any of said stations that a portion of the preceding annual appropriation remains unexpended, such amount shall be deducted from the next succeeding annual appropriation to such station...
Página 78 - They slept on the abyss without a surge The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon their mistress had expired before; The winds were...
Página 6 - 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 legislature of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.
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| Título | Agriculture of Pennsylvania, Volumen11 History of rural America on microfilm |
| Colaborador | Pennsylvania. State Board of Agriculture |
| Editor | State Board of Agriculture, 1888 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 20 Feb. 2008 |
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