Annual Report, Volume 18State Printers., 1864 Includes abstract of the Proceedings of the county agricultural societies. |
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... best and most profitable results . Economy is one thing , but parsimony is quite another . That man is economical in the expenditure of money , which , notwithstanding it may appear to be very liberal , yet is applied in the most ...
... best and most profitable results . Economy is one thing , but parsimony is quite another . That man is economical in the expenditure of money , which , notwithstanding it may appear to be very liberal , yet is applied in the most ...
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... best crops . There must be room for the roots to go down beyond the reach of a common drouth , and to find appro- priate food for their use ; and this is most largely present in a deep and mellow soil . Deep plowing and high manuring ...
... best crops . There must be room for the roots to go down beyond the reach of a common drouth , and to find appro- priate food for their use ; and this is most largely present in a deep and mellow soil . Deep plowing and high manuring ...
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... best time for seeding wheat in Ohio is , as a general thing , from the first to the twentieth of September . Should the autumn prove favorable , and there be a large growth of foliage on the wheat plant , it will be a great benefit ...
... best time for seeding wheat in Ohio is , as a general thing , from the first to the twentieth of September . Should the autumn prove favorable , and there be a large growth of foliage on the wheat plant , it will be a great benefit ...
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... best tem- perature for every species , and we must not believe that the quickest germination is at the same time the best also . The most important prin- ciple herein is , that the temperature of germination differs from the best ...
... best tem- perature for every species , and we must not believe that the quickest germination is at the same time the best also . The most important prin- ciple herein is , that the temperature of germination differs from the best ...
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... best adapted to their respective soils , or do they grow such crops and in such proportion as pay best in their immediate markets ? " What is the cause of this great disproportion in the acreage of each in crops ? The average agronomic ...
... best adapted to their respective soils , or do they grow such crops and in such proportion as pay best in their immediate markets ? " What is the cause of this great disproportion in the acreage of each in crops ? The average agronomic ...
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Page lxxii - That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress...
Page lxxiii - Provided, That in no case shall any State to which land scrip may thus be issued be allowed to locate the same within the limits of any other State or of any Territory of the United States...
Page lxxiii - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page lxxiv - Any State which may take and claim the benefit of the provisions of this act shall provide, within five years, at least not less than one college, as described in the fourth section of this act, or the grant to such State shall cease; and said State shall be bound to pay the United States the amount received of any lands previously sold and that the title to purchasers under the State shall be valid.
Page lxxiii - That the land aforesaid, after being surveyed, shall be apportioned to the several States in sections or subdivisions of sections, not less than one quarter of a section; and whenever there are public lands in a State subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the quantity to which said State shall be entitled shall be selected from such lands within the limits of such State...
Page lxxiv - An annual report shall be made regarding the progress of each college, recording any improvements and experiments made, with their cost and results, and such other matters, including State industrial and economical statistics, as may be supposed useful ; one copy of which shall be transmitted by mail free, by each, to all the other colleges which may be endowed under the provisions of this act, and also one copy to the Secretary of the Interior.
Page lxxiv - No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings.
Page lxxiii - If any portion of the fund invested, as provided by the foregoing section, or any portion of the interest thereon shall, by any action or contingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the State to which it belongs, so that the capital of the fund shall remain forever undiminished...
Page lxxiv - When lands shall be selected from those which have been raised to double the minimum price, in consequence of railroad grants, they shall be computed to the States at the maximum price, and the number of acres proportionally diminished.
Page lxxiii - States, but their assignees may thus locate said land scrip upon any of the unappropriated lands of the United States subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents, or less, per acre...