Southern Planter and Farmer, Volume 65P. D. Bernard, 1904 |
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Page 70 - Amazing grace! (How sweet the sound!) That saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now I see.
Page 70 - AMAZING grace ! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me ! I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see.
Page 5 - It is probably the most thorough piece of work on a special agricultural subject ever published in English. The treatment of the subject is historical, scientific, and practical, exhausting every source of information available. From the first publication, this essay attracted great attention, and is even now the best authority on certain phases of the subject. As a result of this and other publications by the same author, a large proportion of the farm owners in the tide-water district of Virginia...
Page 110 - When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever...
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Page 110 - ... hearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result, and unless the Inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever ; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of ' Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. FJ CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Page 206 - Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
Page 116 - Pluck wins! It always wins! though days be slow And nights be dark 'twixt days that come and go. Still pluck will win; its average is sure; He gains the prize who will the most endure: Who faces issues; he who never shirks; Who waits and watches, and who always works.
Page 26 - All cows shrink in quantity of milk as they get farther from calving. If they are farrow, this shrinkage in quantity is accompanied by almost no change, in quality, even until they go dry. provided they are still farrow. If they are in calf, the milk increases in quality as it decreases in quantity; this increase is slight, only one-twentieth during the first six months after calving, but becomes quite pronounced just before the cow goes dry.
Page 4 - ... particularly attended to ; if possible, they should be compared with fertile soils in the same neighbourhood, and in similar situations, as the difference of the composition may, in many cases, indicate the most proper methods of improvement. If on washing a sterile soil it is found to contain the salts of iron, or any acid matter, it may be ameliorated by the application of quick lime.