Annual Report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture, Edição 18 |
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acres Agricultural Society Alderney animals Aroostook county average barn beef Belfast better Board brains breed bushels butter cattle cents per pound cheese cheese factory Club corn cost cows crops cultivation dairy dollars early England experience fact farmers feed feet fences fertility fields fruit furnished furrow gentlemen give grain grass green manure grow hills horses hundred improved increase industry interest Jersey June keep labor land less Lewiston lime Maine manufacture manure miles milk mills Northport oats onions operations orchard organized Orono pastures Penobscot Penobscot bay Penobscot county Penobscot river plants plow pond population potash potatoes practical present President profit qualities raise river Searsmont seed sell sheep sheep husbandry shingle soil success supply thing thoroughbred tion town trees Waldo county wheat winter Winterport
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Página 293 - In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
Página 117 - ... the wilderness and the solitary place to be glad, and the desert to rejoice and blossom as the rose.
Página 348 - And so it is throughout the south and west of Ireland; the traveller is haunted by the face of the popular starvation. It is not the exception, it is the condition of the people. In this fairest and richest of countries, men are suffering and starving by millions. There are thousands of them at this minute stretched in the sunshine at their cabin doors with no work, scarcely any food, no hope seemingly. Strong countrymen are lying in bed 'for the hunger'—because a man lying on his back does not...
Página 348 - It is not the exception, it is the condition of the people. In this fairest and richest of countries, men are suffering and starving by millions. There are thousands of them at this minute stretched in the sunshine at their cabin doors with no work, scarcely any food, no hope seemingly. Strong countrymen are lying in bed "for the hunger " — because a man lying on his back does not need so much food as a person a-foot.
Página 30 - Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
Página 373 - There is something nobly simple and pure in such a taste : it argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature, to have this strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. There is a grandeur of thought connected with this part of rural economy. It is, if I may be allowed the figure, the heroic line of husbandry.
Página 373 - He who plants an oak looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity. Nothing can be less selfish than this. He cannot expect to sit in its shade, nor enjoy its shelter ; but he exults in the idea, that the acorn which he has buried in the earth shall grow up into a lofty pile, and shall keep on flourishing and increasing, and benefiting mankind, long after he shall have ceased to tread his paternal fields.
Página 373 - As the leaves of trees are said to absorb all noxious qualities of the air, and to breathe forth a purer atmosphere, so it seems to me as if they drew from us all sordid and angry passions, and breathed forth peace and philanthropy.
Página 349 - Instead of yielding abundance for the wants of its own population and the inhabitants of other regions, it does not keep in existence its own children.
Página 31 - He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.