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Stran 390 - VILLE.— The School of Chemical Manures : Or, Elementary Principles in the Use of Fertilizing Agents. From the French of M. GEO. VILLE, by AA FESQUET, Chemist and Engineer. With Illustrations.
Stran 369 - to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics.
Stran 275 - ... ground has been exhausted by continual cropping, they clear and cultivate another piece of fresh land ; and when that is exhausted, proceed to a third. Their cattle are allowed to wander through the woods and...
Stran 301 - Ibs. of bone dust is sufficient to supply three crops of wheat, clover, potatoes, turnips, &c., with phosphates. But the form in which they are restored to a soil does not appear to be a matter of indifference. For the more finely the bones are reduced to powder, and the more intimately they are mixed with the soil, the more easily are they assimilated.
Stran 7 - Congress, keeping pace with this expression of public sentiment, at its last session made a liberal appropriation for "a system of observations and reports, in charge of the Chief Signal-Officer of the Army, for such stations, reports, and signals as may be found necessary for the benefit of agriculture and commercial interests," thus responding to the universal sentiment,
Stran 369 - February 7, 1872, authorizing the board of education to sell the congressional land-scrip, and invest it in bonds of the State of Virginia or of the United States, or in any other safe bonds or stocks, for the support of one or more industrial schools. In accordance with this act, the land was sold for $285,000, and $192,000 of this sum have been paid in and invested in Virginia State bonds, at G per cent, annually.
Stran 296 - ... a gain in ten years of very nearly $200,000,000. This, of course, includes the porkpacking business, till recently confined, to a large extent, to certain Western cities, but now carried on as a growing business at many convenient points along our great lines of railway in other parts of the country. Improvement in swine began less than threequarters of a century ago. The first that excited any general interest was made by some animals sent from Woburn Abbey, by the Duke of Bedford, to General...
Stran 277 - The thrashing was done with the flail. The winnowing was done by the wind. Slow and laborious hand-labor for nearly all the processes of the farm was the rule, and machine-labor the exception, till a comparatively recent date. Indeed, it has been said that a strong man could have carried on his shoulders all the implements used on his farm, except, perhaps, the old wooden cart and the harrow, previous to the beginning of the present century, and we know that the number as well as the variety of these...
Stran 285 - Paris, each machine having about an acre to cut. Three machines were entered for the first trial, one American, one English, and a third from Algiers, all at the same time raking as well as cutting. The American machine did its work in twenty-two minutes, the English in sixty-six, and the Algerian in seventy-two. At a subsequent trial on the same piece...
Stran 453 - June, put more flesh on cattle than bluegrass; but ho would iiofc recommend this for later pasturage. The greatest difficulty encountered by graziers was the short pasturage from the last week in July to the first week in September ; and if any one could discover a grass which would provide good pasturage during this period he would confer a great blessing on the country. The best pasturage he had been able to provide for bridging over this gap was red clover and orchard grass. The