History of Ohio Agriculture: A Treatise on the Development of the Various Lines and Phases of Farm Life in OhioRumford Press, 1900 - 211 páginas |
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... former the real agricul- ture began . It is to bring together some of the historic agricultural facts now scattered through a thousand places that this little book appears . C. W. B. 1 INTRODUCTION Its In 1650 Ohio was an unbroken forest.
... former the real agricul- ture began . It is to bring together some of the historic agricultural facts now scattered through a thousand places that this little book appears . C. W. B. 1 INTRODUCTION Its In 1650 Ohio was an unbroken forest.
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... ture for the forty years is 49.3 ° ; the high- est temperature observed in the vicinity of Cleveland was 99 ° on August 12 , 1881 , while the lowest temperature was 200 below zero , January 29 , 1873. We find by dividing this period of ...
... ture for the forty years is 49.3 ° ; the high- est temperature observed in the vicinity of Cleveland was 99 ° on August 12 , 1881 , while the lowest temperature was 200 below zero , January 29 , 1873. We find by dividing this period of ...
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... ture Scioto and Miami country furnished the beautiful valley homes of the Shawnees ; the fame and power of whose brave war- riors were extended even to the civilized courts , so that the French found efficient allies during the Seven ...
... ture Scioto and Miami country furnished the beautiful valley homes of the Shawnees ; the fame and power of whose brave war- riors were extended even to the civilized courts , so that the French found efficient allies during the Seven ...
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... ture roots , through the sap wood . This would soon destroy the trees so that enough sun- light would enter to produce the corn crop . During winter the branches would drop to the ground , and in the springtime the women and children ...
... ture roots , through the sap wood . This would soon destroy the trees so that enough sun- light would enter to produce the corn crop . During winter the branches would drop to the ground , and in the springtime the women and children ...
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... ture was as foreign to him as to thousands of the farmers of Ohio to - day . He carried the matter a little further , however , hilling the corn as high as two feet1 . The corn was plucked before fully ripe and a careful selection of ...
... ture was as foreign to him as to thousands of the farmers of Ohio to - day . He carried the matter a little further , however , hilling the corn as high as two feet1 . The corn was plucked before fully ripe and a careful selection of ...
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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.