Biennial Report, Volume 5The Board, 1900 |
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animals apples attendance was 100 bees beets Berkeley County Board of Agriculture board was represented breeding Bulletin C. C. Brown cattle cent County Farmers crops D. M. Sullivan disease Donnally Pub election estimated attendance ewes Experiment Station F. P. Ruhl feeding feet fertilizers following officers forests frost fruit grain Grange Greenbrier Greenbrier county growers growing growth Horticultural Institute Director Institute Society Institute was held interest J. B. Garvin lambs land lime Marion county milk O. A. Petty October orchards Pendleton County phosphate phosphoric acid plants Pocahontas counties poultry pounds present President produce profit Pruntytown Putnam County Randolph county represented by S. W. rock S. W. Atkinson second annual meeting Secretary and Treasurer sheep Society was held society was re-organized soil spruce T. C. Atkeson Taylor County temperature third annual meeting timber tion trees tuberculin tuberculosis veterinarian Vice-President West Virginia Wood County
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Page 292 - Territory shall be twenty-five thousand dollars, to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction...
Page 12 - Board may elect a Secretary who shall not be a member of the Board, and who shall receive an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars.
Page 13 - It shall be the duty of the Secretary, under the direction of the Council, to conduct the correspondence of the Institution ; to attend all meetings of the Institution, and of the Council, and of Committees ; to take minutes of the proceedings of such meetings ; to read the minutes of the preceding...
Page 391 - For our business interests, we desire to bring producers and consumers, farmers and manufacturers into the most direct and friendly relations possible. Hence, we must dispense with a surplus of middlemen, not that we are unfriendly to them, but we do not need them. Their surplus and their exactions diminish our profits.
Page 392 - It is his duty to do all he can in his own party to put down bribery, corruption and trickery; to see that none but competent, faithful and honest men, who will unflinchingly stand by...
Page 12 - Senate, not more than three of whom shall belong to the same political party.
Page 390 - We propose meeting together, talking together, working together, buying together, selling together, and, in general, acting together -for our mutual protection, and advancement, as occasion may require.
Page 392 - We emphatically and sincerely assert the oft-repeated truth taught in our organic law, that the Grange, National, State, or Subordinate, is not a political or party organization. No Grange, if true to its obligations, can discuss political or religious questions, nor call political conventions, nor nominate candidates, nor even discuss their merits in its meetings.
Page 288 - College instruction in agriculture is given in the colleges and universities receiving the benefits of the acts of Congress of July 2, 1862, August 30, 1890, and March 4, 1907, which are now in operation in all the States and Territories, except Alaska.
Page 42 - ... must be originated and published for the dissemination of information of a public character, or devoted to literature, the sciences, arts, or some special industry, and having a legitimate list of subscribers.