Report of [E. Holmes] the Secretary and Transactions of the County Agricultural Societies, for 1855: 1850-52 |
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... attention to the attractive character of our State , in its natural resources , its business facilities , its agricultural and grazing capacities , its internal improvements , its maritime power , its mineral , granitic and even its icy ...
... attention to the attractive character of our State , in its natural resources , its business facilities , its agricultural and grazing capacities , its internal improvements , its maritime power , its mineral , granitic and even its icy ...
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... attention to the products of one - half acre of corn , planted the last part of May , 1850 . I managed as follows : -First , I spread barn manure before plowing , plowed and harrowed as usual , furrowed my rows about three and a - half ...
... attention to the products of one - half acre of corn , planted the last part of May , 1850 . I managed as follows : -First , I spread barn manure before plowing , plowed and harrowed as usual , furrowed my rows about three and a - half ...
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... attention which its impor- tance demands ; for nowhere can fine fruit be grown in greater perfection , or with more profit than here . They would recom- mend increasing care in the selection of varieties adapted to the climate , and the ...
... attention which its impor- tance demands ; for nowhere can fine fruit be grown in greater perfection , or with more profit than here . They would recom- mend increasing care in the selection of varieties adapted to the climate , and the ...
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... attention during the brief hour we may be together , to a very few topics which may be of use to you in a practical sense , when we have separated and each returned to his particular sphere of labor . The soil of the county of York is ...
... attention during the brief hour we may be together , to a very few topics which may be of use to you in a practical sense , when we have separated and each returned to his particular sphere of labor . The soil of the county of York is ...
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... attention to the element in which the fish reside , viz : the ocean itself . And here I would observe , that much may be learned by studying the operations of nature , in the application of her laws - in the growth and sustenance of ...
... attention to the element in which the fish reside , viz : the ocean itself . And here I would observe , that much may be learned by studying the operations of nature , in the application of her laws - in the growth and sustenance of ...
Términos y frases comunes
50 cents 75 cents Agricultural Society animals apples Bangor beautiful Biddeford breed Buckfield bull bushels bushels per acre butter calf calves Cape Elizabeth cattle Chairman cheese committee award compost corn crop cultivation diploma Dixfield drain England entered for premium exhibited farm farmer feet fruit Fryeburg gratuity of $1 Green handsome horse improvement inches John Joseph Kennebec Kennebec County Kennebunkport kind labor land Lewiston manufactured manure Miss mium Norway old colt old heifers old steers oxen Oxford county pair pear planted plow plum Portland potatoes pounds premium of $2 presented produce profit quince raised Readfield recommend a gratuity respectfully submitted Ribston Pippin Rumford Russet Saco Samuel second best second premium seed sheep society's first premium soil South Berwick specimen superior Sweet swine third best third premium three years old trees variety vegetable Waterville Westbrook wheat William winter Winthrop wool Yellow
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Página 844 - As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Página 847 - And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his figtree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.
Página 60 - The world was sad ; the garden was a wild ! And man, the hermit, sighed, till woman smiled...
Página 117 - When water is heated from below, the portion first subjected to the heat rises to the surface, and every portion is successively subjected to the heat and rises, and each, having lost some of its heat at the surface, is in turn displaced. Constant motion is kept up, and a constant approximation to an equal temperature in the whole body. The application of superficial heat has no tendency to disturb the quiescence of water.
Página 635 - Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Página 117 - The small portion warmed expands, becomes lighter than that below, consequently retains its position on the surface, and carries no heat downwards. To ascertain the mean heat of the air at the surface of the earth, over any extended space, and for a period of eight or nine months, is no simple operation. More elements enter into such a calculation than we have space or ability to enumerate ; but we know certainly that for seven months in the year, air, at the surface of the ground, is seldom lower...
Página 122 - ... feet, and as this latter is generally one or two degrees colder than water from a contiguous well several feet below, we can hardly avoid drawing the conclusion that the cold of evaporation has considerable influence at 30 inches, a much diminished influence at 4 feet, and little or none below that depth.
Página 120 - In respect of the depth at which drains may, with a certainty of action, be placed in a soil, I pretend to assign no rule ; for there cannot, in my opinion, be a more crude or mistaken idea than that one rule of depth is applicable with equal efficiency to soils of all kinds.
Página 44 - He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
Página 132 - Deep-drained lands never do burn. Nothing burns sooner than a few inches of soil on a very retentive clay. No land is less subject to burn than the same soil when by...