Annual Report, Volume 12State Printers., 1858 Includes abstract of the Proceedings of the county agricultural societies. |
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... introduce the Panicum Germani- cum , or Hungarian grass , in Ohio . The grass itself appears to be very coarse , rapid growing , much resembling the " barn- yard grass " of Eastern States ; it is evidently a grass that ex- hausts the ...
... introduce the Panicum Germani- cum , or Hungarian grass , in Ohio . The grass itself appears to be very coarse , rapid growing , much resembling the " barn- yard grass " of Eastern States ; it is evidently a grass that ex- hausts the ...
Página 36
... introducing the Hungarian grass , it would perhaps be as well to introduce the muskit grass of Texas for a late pasture grass . It has been introduced into Virginia with signal success , and , according to recent information from the ...
... introducing the Hungarian grass , it would perhaps be as well to introduce the muskit grass of Texas for a late pasture grass . It has been introduced into Virginia with signal success , and , according to recent information from the ...
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... introduced within the past ten years is sufficient to perform the labor of 100,000 agricultural laborers . Every new ... introduction of ma- chinery for agricultural purposes in the United States , as compared with the attempt to do so ...
... introduced within the past ten years is sufficient to perform the labor of 100,000 agricultural laborers . Every new ... introduction of ma- chinery for agricultural purposes in the United States , as compared with the attempt to do so ...
Página 58
... introduced in one of the southern counties of the State . Whether a " clip , " amounting to two or three ounces of very fine wool from each goat , together with a fleece of 5 to 6 pounds of coarse wool , will be remunerative to the ...
... introduced in one of the southern counties of the State . Whether a " clip , " amounting to two or three ounces of very fine wool from each goat , together with a fleece of 5 to 6 pounds of coarse wool , will be remunerative to the ...
Página 59
... introduced some of the best strains of " short - horns " from England ; but in the absence of railroads at that period , the imported stock was not accessible to the mass of cattle breeders , and many of the smaller farmers then as to ...
... introduced some of the best strains of " short - horns " from England ; but in the absence of railroads at that period , the imported stock was not accessible to the mass of cattle breeders , and many of the smaller farmers then as to ...
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1st prem 2d prem agricultural ammonia amount animals appearance awarded awned better Board breeds bushels bushels per acre Butler county cane carbonic acid cattle Cecidomyia cent chaff Cincinnati clay Clinton county clover color committee contains corn crop cultivated culture disease drains Elyria ergot exhibition experiments farm farmers favorable feeding feet flesh-forming flour flowers fruit gallons germination glume gluten grain grass green ground growth horses improvement inches increase insects juice labor land larvæ less lime machine magnesia manure matter meadow Mediterranean midge mowers nitrogen oats Ohio Pickaway county plant plow potash potatoes premium President produce quantity ripens roots Ross county rust Scioto season seed sheep silica Society soil sown species Spike stalk starch Stark county straw substances sugar syrup Timothy tion variety vegetable wheat winter yield
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Página 721 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Página 796 - ... the same tipped with black ; third and fourth joints, black; beak brown; wings and wing-cases white; the latter are black at their insertion, and have near the middle two short irregular black lines, and a conspicuous black marginal spot ; legs dark honey yellow, terminal joint of the feet, and the claws black.
Página 681 - ... with the exception of a small portion of western Texas and the narrow border along the Pacific, is a country of comparatively little value to the agriculturist; and perhaps it will astonish the reader if we direct his attention to the fact that this line, which passes southward \ from Lake Winnipeg to the Gulf of Mexico, will divide the whole surface of the United States into two nearly equal parts.
Página 680 - York,) yields a larger produce than is common in England. Upon good lands about Albany, where the climate is the coldest in the country, they sow two bushels and better upon...
Página 435 - F. 2d. That frost, or even hard freezing, does not injure the juice nor the sugar, but that warm Indian summer weather, after the frost and hard freezing, does injure them very materially, and reduces both quantity and quality.
Página 435 - That it is obvious that there is a culminating point In the development of the sugar in the cane, which is the best time for sugar making. This point or season I consider to be, when most if not all the seeds are ripe, and after several frosts ; say when the temperature falls to 25° or 3o° Fahrenheit.
Página 587 - A large squill buIb, which it was wished to dry and preserve, has been known to push up its stalk and leaves, when buried in sand kept up to a temperature much exceeding that of boiling water.
Página 411 - The great object sought in France in the cultivation of this plant is the juice contained in its stalks, which furnishes three important products, namely, sugar, which is identical with that of cane", alcohol, and a fermented drink analogous to cider.
Página 590 - Nature," about five years ago, and I resolved to put your theory to a practical test. I accordingly had a case made, the sides of which were formed of glass colored blue or indigo, which case I attached to a small gas stove for engendering heat ; in the case shelves were- fixed in the inside, on which were placed small pots wherein the seeds to be tested were sown. The results were all that could be looked for : the seeds freely germinated in from two to five days only, instead of from eight to fourteen...
Página 391 - Having observed the remark in the Port Folio for May, 1815, in the review of the third volume of the Memoirs of the Philadelphia Agricultural Society, that, ' as yet, in America we have never heard of any human person falling a victim to the ergot, nor indeed is it satisfactorily ascertained that it has ever been injurious to our animals...