American FarmerJohn S. Skinner, 1866 |
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... experience of practical men was appealed to , to uphold the practice of manuring on the surface , while the teacher of science still maintained the inevitable loss of the volatile am- monia . Finally , however . it was ascertained that ...
... experience of practical men was appealed to , to uphold the practice of manuring on the surface , while the teacher of science still maintained the inevitable loss of the volatile am- monia . Finally , however . it was ascertained that ...
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... EXPERIENCE - GOOD ADVICE . John Farrar , of Georgia , says : I have concluded to inform the readers of the Cultivator , how I am getting along in the management of planta- tion affairs , and how I manage the freedmen and women of which ...
... EXPERIENCE - GOOD ADVICE . John Farrar , of Georgia , says : I have concluded to inform the readers of the Cultivator , how I am getting along in the management of planta- tion affairs , and how I manage the freedmen and women of which ...
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... experience that the most fertile lands of a new country are opened first . The settler brings first into culti - rior class of soils , he will find occasion to feed vation such lands as offer least resistance to his axe , and these are ...
... experience that the most fertile lands of a new country are opened first . The settler brings first into culti - rior class of soils , he will find occasion to feed vation such lands as offer least resistance to his axe , and these are ...
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... experience is that a little grain increases the appetite for hay , which must be of the best the grain passes off undigested . Where grain is cheap , worth less than good hay proportionally , more grain would be economical , as in some ...
... experience is that a little grain increases the appetite for hay , which must be of the best the grain passes off undigested . Where grain is cheap , worth less than good hay proportionally , more grain would be economical , as in some ...
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... experience has taught us that among the tens of thousand mules in an army , it is but seldom one kicks or has any vice that has not been taught them . To teach a team of mules to guide perfectly with one line is but the work of a few ...
... experience has taught us that among the tens of thousand mules in an army , it is but seldom one kicks or has any vice that has not been taught them . To teach a team of mules to guide perfectly with one line is but the work of a few ...
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Página 300 - And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy...
Página 195 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings, till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant...
Página 21 - Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.
Página 33 - He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children.
Página 100 - I love to lose myself in a mystery, to pursue my reason to an O altitudo!
Página 195 - ... of his wings ; till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over ; and then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing, as if it had learned music and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air, about his ministries here below : so is the prayer of a good man...
Página 197 - That the mighty Pan Was kindly come to live with them below; Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.
Página 195 - ... prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares, and the calm of our tempest; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness...
Página 195 - ... meditation, the rest of our cares, and the calm of our tempest; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts; it is the daughter of Charity, and the sister of Meekness; and he that prays to God...
Página 163 - Let not thy jests, like mummy, be made of dead men's flesh. Abuse not any that are departed ; for to wrong their memories is to rob their ghosts of their winding-sheets. Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. Oh 'tis cruelty to beat a cripple with his own crutches.