American FarmerJohn S. Skinner, 1866 |
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... pounds to the acre , which is equal to about 200 American pounds , or 3 bushels . The cost of seed per acre thus averages 18 Prussian thalers , or $ 13 in gold . We are obliged to buy our seed either from Russia or Zealand , and can use ...
... pounds to the acre , which is equal to about 200 American pounds , or 3 bushels . The cost of seed per acre thus averages 18 Prussian thalers , or $ 13 in gold . We are obliged to buy our seed either from Russia or Zealand , and can use ...
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... pounds of straw - flax for one thaler , or about 2 cents , gold , per pound , these two years ; at present it sells even higher , to wit . , 26 pounds for one thaler . One acre will , on an average , produce from 2,500 to 3,000 German ...
... pounds of straw - flax for one thaler , or about 2 cents , gold , per pound , these two years ; at present it sells even higher , to wit . , 26 pounds for one thaler . One acre will , on an average , produce from 2,500 to 3,000 German ...
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... pounds , I being the eldest had the brunt of work to bear , consequently , but little schooling fell to my share . conclusions , ring the bell twenty minutes before day for all hands to rise , the women go to cook- ing for breakfast and ...
... pounds , I being the eldest had the brunt of work to bear , consequently , but little schooling fell to my share . conclusions , ring the bell twenty minutes before day for all hands to rise , the women go to cook- ing for breakfast and ...
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... pounds to the acre ! " - or " hog manure , " — re- quiring a very big hog - pen to supply it , - " or well rotted oak ashes , " - demanding a large con- sumption of oak timber , - " or well rotted stable manure , with plaster . " good ...
... pounds to the acre ! " - or " hog manure , " — re- quiring a very big hog - pen to supply it , - " or well rotted oak ashes , " - demanding a large con- sumption of oak timber , - " or well rotted stable manure , with plaster . " good ...
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... pounds , and not below 15 to 16 hands bigh . The fault with most of the horses now in Vermont is , they are too small . Though we can never compete with the South and West in breeding large horses , we must breed such as will command ...
... pounds , and not below 15 to 16 hands bigh . The fault with most of the horses now in Vermont is , they are too small . Though we can never compete with the South and West in breeding large horses , we must breed such as will command ...
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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.