The Call of the Land: Popular Chapters on Topics of Interest to FarmersOrange Judd Company, 1913 - 385 páginas |
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... turn your children's attention to these pictures , when they will save their pennies and purchase enough to illustrate the entire history of art . Let the young people make a frieze of such pictures around your best room , placing each ...
... turn your children's attention to these pictures , when they will save their pennies and purchase enough to illustrate the entire history of art . Let the young people make a frieze of such pictures around your best room , placing each ...
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... turning over and killing grass - clad sod , ruining good pasturage , and weaving no garment in its stead . Not seldom the dry soil thus denuded blows away , leaving gravel banks where earlier there was a noble covering of succulent ...
... turning over and killing grass - clad sod , ruining good pasturage , and weaving no garment in its stead . Not seldom the dry soil thus denuded blows away , leaving gravel banks where earlier there was a noble covering of succulent ...
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... turn out upon the prairie practi- cally without care . In good seasons their cattle are a source of profit ; in bad seasons droves of them die . Most sheep feeders oppose leases , their principal reason being that sheep like to ex ...
... turn out upon the prairie practi- cally without care . In good seasons their cattle are a source of profit ; in bad seasons droves of them die . Most sheep feeders oppose leases , their principal reason being that sheep like to ex ...
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... turns other semi - arid regions into blooming farms almost irre- spective of rainfall . Every patriot wishes these processes continued . However difficult to frame a leasing law which would not hinder homesteading , such a feat seems ...
... turns other semi - arid regions into blooming farms almost irre- spective of rainfall . Every patriot wishes these processes continued . However difficult to frame a leasing law which would not hinder homesteading , such a feat seems ...
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... turn wildernesses into gardens of plenty . The discussion of the anti - drouth victo- ries securable through the breeding of hardy seeds and by planting rugged instead of feeble crops it is not my purpose to take up now . Suffice it to ...
... turn wildernesses into gardens of plenty . The discussion of the anti - drouth victo- ries securable through the breeding of hardy seeds and by planting rugged instead of feeble crops it is not my purpose to take up now . Suffice it to ...
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Página 184 - An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, established under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two...
Página 184 - 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 98 - And bade me creep past. No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements...
Página 314 - My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof!
Página 185 - 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...
Página 188 - Not once or twice in our rough island story The path of duty was the way to glory.
Página 351 - I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now...
Página 352 - THERE is no unbelief; Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod And waits to see it push away the clod, He trusts in God. Whoever says when clouds are in the sky, "Be patient, heart; light breaketh by and by,
Página 239 - Who can see the green earth any more As she was by the sources of Time? Who imagines her fields as they lay In the sunshine, unworn by the plough? Who thinks as they thought, The tribes who then roam'd on her breast, Her vigorous, primitive sons?
Página 238 - Some keep the Sabbath in surplice; I just wear my wings, And instead of tolling the bell for church, Our little sexton sings. God preaches, - a noted clergyman, And the sermon is never long; So instead of getting to heaven at last, I'm going all along!