Agriculture of Pennsylvania, Volumen11State Board of Agriculture, 1888 "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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... varieties of wheat originated , grew 16,457.500 bushels , or a trifle over three bushels per capita last year . The wheat crop of Egypt is not so great as formerly , for while the Nile valley is just as fertile as when in the days of Jo ...
... varieties of wheat originated , grew 16,457.500 bushels , or a trifle over three bushels per capita last year . The wheat crop of Egypt is not so great as formerly , for while the Nile valley is just as fertile as when in the days of Jo ...
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... varieties , it will afford a profusion of fruits and vegetables for the home supply , and some to spare , with less labor than is commonly bestowed on the small kitchen garden , which affords but a very meagre supply . A few shade trees ...
... varieties , it will afford a profusion of fruits and vegetables for the home supply , and some to spare , with less labor than is commonly bestowed on the small kitchen garden , which affords but a very meagre supply . A few shade trees ...
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... varieties of our native chestnuts are quite valuable for their fruit , and make as good a shade tree as any other for planting about the farm buildings . They do not graft as easily as most fruit trees , but it can be done . The English ...
... varieties of our native chestnuts are quite valuable for their fruit , and make as good a shade tree as any other for planting about the farm buildings . They do not graft as easily as most fruit trees , but it can be done . The English ...
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... varieties Moore's Early ap- pears to be growing in favor . This year it bore well wherever heard from ; the clusters are large and compact , grapes large and covered with a beautiful bloom , and do not drop off so readily as most early ...
... varieties Moore's Early ap- pears to be growing in favor . This year it bore well wherever heard from ; the clusters are large and compact , grapes large and covered with a beautiful bloom , and do not drop off so readily as most early ...
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... varieties of soils and seasons . " We have too much at stake to proceed faster than is warranted by such a range of experience . The disappointment which has too often followed bold assertions we do not want to react upon us . " We ...
... varieties of soils and seasons . " We have too much at stake to proceed faster than is warranted by such a range of experience . The disappointment which has too often followed bold assertions we do not want to react upon us . " We ...
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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.