Annual Report, Volume 12State Printers., 1858 Includes abstract of the Proceedings of the county agricultural societies. |
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... present volume is printed on the same sized type , and is of the same form as that of Massachusetts ; but the latter contains 736 pages only , while this contains 824 . The larger number of pages in the present Report is to be ...
... present volume is printed on the same sized type , and is of the same form as that of Massachusetts ; but the latter contains 736 pages only , while this contains 824 . The larger number of pages in the present Report is to be ...
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... present condition of science , might be conferred upon agriculture . In the absence of the standards of comparison just intimated , the only course left is to describe the condition without any reference whatever to any artificial ...
... present condition of science , might be conferred upon agriculture . In the absence of the standards of comparison just intimated , the only course left is to describe the condition without any reference whatever to any artificial ...
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... present no data from which the amount in quantity , or the value , of these crops may be ascertained even approximately . Correct statistics in relation to the condition , quan- tity , and kind of crops grown in Ohio will in a few years ...
... present no data from which the amount in quantity , or the value , of these crops may be ascertained even approximately . Correct statistics in relation to the condition , quan- tity , and kind of crops grown in Ohio will in a few years ...
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... present . The year 1857 will long be remembered as the period in which an ex- ceedingly valuable acquisition was made to our annual crops , in the form of a plant which , whilst it no doubt will prove valuable as a forage plant , is at ...
... present . The year 1857 will long be remembered as the period in which an ex- ceedingly valuable acquisition was made to our annual crops , in the form of a plant which , whilst it no doubt will prove valuable as a forage plant , is at ...
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... present indications , in a few years the grain cradle will be as obsolete an implement as is the sickle at present . At a trial of reapers and mowers held at Hamilton , in Butler county , from the 1st to the 3d of July last , under the ...
... present indications , in a few years the grain cradle will be as obsolete an implement as is the sickle at present . At a trial of reapers and mowers held at Hamilton , in Butler county , from the 1st to the 3d of July last , under the ...
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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...