Transactions of the New Hampshire State Agricultural Society

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Page 381 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn ; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 65 - doing good ;" So shall the wide earth seem our Father's temple, Each loving life a psalm of gratitude. Then shall all shackles fall ; the stormy clangor Of wild war music o'er the earth shall cease ; Love shall tread out the baleful fire of anger, And in its ashes plant the tree of peace ! THE DEMON OF THE STUDY.
Page 191 - All the most fertile parts of the globe ;were formed by alluvial depositions : alluvial agency appears to have been the means employed, in the economy of nature, to prepare the world for the residence of social and civilized man. The most ancient cities of which we have any authentic record, Babylon, Nineveh, and Thebes, were founded in the midst of alluvial soils, deposited by the Euphrates, the Tigris, and the Nile : indeed, it does not appear unreasonable to believe, that the formation of soils...
Page 230 - Warnerton was slain. That sometime after, one Sampson Lane came over from England, with power, as he pretended, to look after and take care of the aforesaid plantations, and did settle himself in the great house at Strawberry Bank, and made additions thereunto, where he continued about three years, and then returned for England, upon whose departure John and Richard...
Page 242 - There are several oilier circumstances, however, to which it is proper still to advert. Thus, 1°. Its effects are greatest when well mixed with the soil, and kept near the surface within easy reach of the atmosphere. The reason of this will hereafter appear. 2°. On arable soils of the same kind and quality, the effects are greatest upon such as are newly ploughed out, or upon s'ubsoils just brought to day. In the case of subsoils, this is owing partly to their containing naturally...
Page 10 - The Executive Committee shall take charge of, and distribute or preserve all Seeds, Plants, Books, Models, &c. which may be transmitted to the Society; and shall have...
Page 10 - ... executive board shall transact the general business of the society and shall perform such other duties as shall seem best calculated to promote the objects of the society. Section 5. There shall be an annual meeting of the society on the third Wednesday in January, in the city of Albany, at which time all the officers shall be elected by a plurality of votes and by ballot. The executive board shall have power to fill any vacancies which may occur in the offices of the society during the year....
Page 186 - ... epochs of destruction and renewal may be traced in the organic remains contained in the different strata; in other words, that whole groups have been swept at once from existence by some powerful catastrophe, and their places supplied by other races, called into existence by the creating energy of the Almighty. The records of geology seem to testify that such was the condition of the globe, in those early periods, as to temperature and other circumstances, that our present race of animals could...
Page 210 - ... 7,700,000 feet, at $8 per M $61,600 6,000,000 laths, at $2 per M 12,000 100,000 shingles, at $2 per M 200 15,000 logs, at $2 each, 30,000 By the time this reaches the St. Louis market its value is nearly doubled, so that the actual income to the inhabitants is upwards of half a million of dollars. According to the calculation made in the pine regions of New York and the New England States, of the quantity of lumber which one acre of ground will produce, five thousand acres of land must annually...
Page 181 - ... element [after Pluto had done his part], before the elevation commenced by which the dry land was made to appear, and what qualities may we not suppose the present ocean to possess at profound depths, where its pressure is great, and in those places where the heat may also be active and long prevailing. Water, under such circumstances, must evidently be a fluid of very peculiar properties. It must contain all the chemical agents not only that are soluble in it, but also that are soluble in a...

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