Transactions of the State Agricultural Society of Michigan: With Reports of County Agricultural Societies, for the Year 1849-59, Volumen2

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Página 392 - Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters Or a way for the lightning of thunder; To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; On the wilderness, wherein there is no man; To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; And to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
Página 455 - All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
Página 392 - For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength. He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.
Página 258 - Society; and also to use their best endeavors to procure the passage of a law to establish a bureau of agriculture in the...
Página 391 - Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are?
Página 57 - ... sources as may be expedient ; resident professors, with expensive salaries, would not be necessary. "The studies taught at this college should be of an eminently practical kind. Besides agriculture in its details, mathematics and the keeping of accounts, mechanics, natural philosophy, and the natural sciences, with their applications to agriculture. With these could be profitably associated anatomy, so far as connected with the structure and diseases of animals, and the study of insects and their...
Página 222 - The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha — at the PLOUGH, and threw her inspiring mantle over me.
Página 326 - ... annually, to regulate and award premiums on such articles, productions and improvements as they may deem best calculated to promote the agricultural and household manufacturing interests of this state...
Página 56 - ... could be conducted to the best advantage, and where the operations of draining, and the treatment of different soils, could be thoroughly exhibited,— in fact, a farm which, under the superintendence of practical and scientific masters, should become a Model for the farms of our state. There should also be attached a Botanical Garden, to be under the charge of the Professor of Botany of the University, in which should be cultivated specimens of the trees, shrubs and plants indigenous to our...
Página 454 - No free man shall be taken, or imprisoned, or disseised, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

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