Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the year 18631863 |
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A. B. Paterson acid acre agricultural amount animals average bees beetles better birds breed bushels cattle cent cheese climate color corn cows crop cultivation culture curd dairy destroy districts dollars early England Fahrenheit farm farmers feed feet flax flowers fruit garden Genus goat grain granivorous grape grass ground grow grown growth habits Hampshire heat Herkimer county hogs horses hundred important improved inches increase injurious insectivorous insects Kanawha Kelley's Island labor land larvæ less Linn manufacture manure Massachusetts Mean rain Mean temp mean temperature milk Milwaukie mountain mules observed Ohio plants plough pounds quantity queen rennet Rhode Island ripening river roots season seed sheep soil species spring Summer resident surface tion tons trees valley varieties vegetation vine Virginia West West Virginia wheat whey wine winter wool yield York
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45 페이지 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
12 페이지 - ... office), by the collection of statistics and by any other appropriate means within his power; to collect as he may be able, new and valuable seeds and plants; to test, by cultivation, the value of such of them as may require such tests ; to propagate such as may be worthy of propagation, and to distribute them among agriculturists.
319 페이지 - Then is the moment for the hummingbird to secure them. Its long delicate bill enters the cup of the flower, and the protruded double-tubed tongue, delicately sensible, and imbued with a glutinous saliva, touches each insect in succession, and draws it from its lurking-place to be instantly swallowed.
204 페이지 - Dunlop, which are allowed to be the best race for yielding milk in Great Britain or Ireland, not only for large quantities, but also for richness and quality.
86 페이지 - State who shall, at the time aforesaid, be under the age of_ ten years shall be free when they arrive at the age of twenty-one years; and all slaves over ten and under twenty-one years shall be free when they arrive at the age of twenty-five...
352 페이지 - It is the best way to foul the room and all that is in it. Don't imagine that if you, who are in charge, don't look to all these things yourself, those under you will be more careful than you are. It appears as if the part of a mistress now is to complain of her servants, and to accept their excuses — not to show them how there need be neither complaints made nor excuses. But again, to look to all these things yourself does not mean to do them yourself. " I always open the windows," the head in...
544 페이지 - But another use of such knowledge to handicraftsmen is equally obvious : it gives every man a chance, according to his natural talents, of becoming an improver of the art he works at, and even a discoverer in the sciences connected with it. He is daily handling the tools and materials with which new experiments are to be made : and daily witnessing the operations of nature, whether in the motions and pressures of bodies, or in their chemical actions on each other. All opportunities of making experiments...
599 페이지 - Dr. Harris says, that these insects "are effectually destroyed by kilndrying the wheat; and grain that is kept cool, well ventilated, and frequently moved, is said to be free from their attack;" also," by winnowing and sifting rice in the spring, the beetles can be separated, and should be immediately gathered and destroyed.
185 페이지 - ... ingrafted on the system of the female as to be communicable by her to any offspring she may subsequently have by other males." In support of this view, Mr. McGillivray cites a case in which there was presented unmistakable evidence that the organization of the placenta admits the return of the venous blood to the mother ; and Dr.
226 페이지 - In many instances the disease appeared to be principally confined to the skin ; sometimes the nose, the ear, or the side of the head were very much inflamed — the ear swollen to twice its usual thickness. This inflammation would spread along the skin sometimes over the eye, producing complete blindness. Sometimes one or more legs were inflamed and swollen, and the inflammation also extended along the body. The skin, where it was inflamed, was red and swollen. Some had large sores on their flanks...