History of Ohio Agriculture: A Treatise on the Development of the Various Lines and Phases of Farm Life in OhioRumford Press, 1900 - 211 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 20
Página 52
... establish an independent empire . The peculiar situation of the country and the nature of the men will gradually lead to this crisis . " What a mistake the observer made . Along with the industry , knowledge , re- ligion , which the ...
... establish an independent empire . The peculiar situation of the country and the nature of the men will gradually lead to this crisis . " What a mistake the observer made . Along with the industry , knowledge , re- ligion , which the ...
Página 81
... established from seedlings , for it was too difficult to bring cumbrous freight . As their seedlings grew up and opportunity offered , a very large majority of the trees bearing independent fruit were grafted . Whenever any of these ...
... established from seedlings , for it was too difficult to bring cumbrous freight . As their seedlings grew up and opportunity offered , a very large majority of the trees bearing independent fruit were grafted . Whenever any of these ...
Página 82
... the advance in horticulture . In 1824 , Professor J. P. Kirtland , in con- nection with his brother , established a nursery at Poland , then Trumbull county , culture and brought on from New England above Horti- a 82.
... the advance in horticulture . In 1824 , Professor J. P. Kirtland , in con- nection with his brother , established a nursery at Poland , then Trumbull county , culture and brought on from New England above Horti- a 82.
Página 84
... established nurseries there and planted and disseminated " every variety of fine fruits that could be obtained in the United States , East or West , making occa- sional importations from Europe of such varieties as were thought to be ...
... established nurseries there and planted and disseminated " every variety of fine fruits that could be obtained in the United States , East or West , making occa- sional importations from Europe of such varieties as were thought to be ...
Página 85
... establish it on a permanent basis . It is , therefore , with justice that he has been distinguished as the father of successful wine farming in the 2 History of Cincinnati . Horti- culture West . His experiments at first with foreign 85.
... establish it on a permanent basis . It is , therefore , with justice that he has been distinguished as the father of successful wine farming in the 2 History of Cincinnati . Horti- culture West . His experiments at first with foreign 85.
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
History of Ohio Agriculture: A Treatise on the Development of the Various ... Charles William Burkett Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
History of Ohio Agriculture: A Treatise on the Development of the Various ... Charles William Burkett Sin vista previa disponible - 2013 |
Términos y frases comunes
acres agri American Merino animals Ayrshire cattle became Berkshire blood bred breeders brought butter Cattle Develop cheese Chester White Cincinnati Cleveland bay common hog corn cross culture early England ery Introduc established factory system fair farm crops Farm Machin farmers feeding fertile flock forest Forestry fruit Geauga County grain grapes herds History of Ohio Horse Stock Horti hundred implements imported improvement inches Indian Agricul industry intro Kentucky labor Lake Erie land large number manufacture mares Marietta ment in Ohio Merino Miami miles milk Morgan horse Muskingum mutton native Ohio Agricultural Report Ohio Cultivator Ohio river pikes pioneers planted Poland China Princi produced prominent pure-bred railroads reaper roads Scioto valley seed settlers Sheep in Ohio soon Southdowns stallion steel plow success sugar thresh tion and Farm to-day trees Trumbull county tural tural Educa ture varieties wheat wild wool Zanesville
Pasajes populares
Página 200 - ... 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 legislatures 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.
Página 33 - From the head waters of Canesadooharie to this place, the land is generally good ; chiefly first or second rate, and, comparatively, little or no third rate. The only refuse is some swamps that appear to be too wet for use, yet I apprehend that a number of them, if drained, would make excellent meadows.
Página 35 - But as they could not at all times boil away the water as fast as it was collected, they made vessels of bark, that would hold about one hundred gallons each, for retaining the water ; and though the sugar-trees did not run every day, they had always a sufficient quantity of water to keep them boiling during the whole sugar season.
Página 33 - The timber is black oak, walnut, hickory, cherry, black ash, white ash, water ash, buckeye, black-locust, honey-locust, sugar-tree, and elm. There is also some land, though comparatively but small, where the timber is chiefly white oak, or beech ; this may be called third rate. In the bottoms, and also many places in the upland, there is a large quantity of wild apple, plum, and red and black haw trees.
Página 162 - ... deliberately marched out of the field and told the proprietor that he might secure his crop as best he could, that the threshing machine had deprived them of their regular winter work twenty years ago and now the reaper would deprive them of the pittance they otherwise could earn during harvest.
Página 42 - The common form of the planters' houses, and indeed of all houses that you meet with on the roadsides in this country, is two square pens, with an open space between them, connected by a roof above and a floor below, so as to form a parallelogram of nearly triple the length of its depth. In the open space the family take their meals during the fine weather. The kitchen and the places for slaves are all separate buildings, as are the stable, cow-houses, &c.
Página 35 - They also made bark vessels for carrying the water, that would hold about four gallons each. They had two brass kettles, that held about fifteen gallons each, and other smaller kettles in which they boiled the water.
Página 35 - The way that we commonly used our sugar while encamped was by putting it in bear's fat until the fat was almost as sweet as the sugar itself; and in this we dipped our roasted venison. About this time some of the Indian lads and myself were employed in making and attending traps for catching raccoons, foxes, wildcats &c.
Página 34 - In this month we began to make sugar. As some of the elm bark will strip at this season, the squaws, after finding a tree that would do, cut it down, and with a crooked stick, broad and sharp at the end, took the bark off the tree, and of this bark made vessels in a curious manner, that would hold about two gallons each : they made above one hundred of these kind of vessels.
Página 85 - ... European plan, during the latter years of his experience paid him a handsome revenue. He introduced the famous Catawba grape, the standard grape of the West. It is stated that Mr. Longworth bears the same relation to vineyard culture that Fulton did to steam navigation. Others made earlier effort, but he was the first to establish it on a permanent basis.