Annual Report, Volume 18State Printers., 1864 Includes abstract of the Proceedings of the county agricultural societies. |
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... fact that machinery and improved imple- ments have been employed to a much greater extent during the years of rebellion than ever before . During the profound peace which preceded the rebellion , farmers were not content that a machine ...
... fact that machinery and improved imple- ments have been employed to a much greater extent during the years of rebellion than ever before . During the profound peace which preceded the rebellion , farmers were not content that a machine ...
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... fact , unless the lands are half a mile long , they will seldom accomplish thi amount , and often plow only three - fourths of an acre , or an average of one and a half acres per day . As a general thing , the average plowing may be set ...
... fact , unless the lands are half a mile long , they will seldom accomplish thi amount , and often plow only three - fourths of an acre , or an average of one and a half acres per day . As a general thing , the average plowing may be set ...
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... fact that the speed of oxen is not as regular as that of horses . The wide machine had worked six days , spading thirty acres , or five acres a day . A trial is to be made with the horse machine , using six tines on a machine three feet ...
... fact that the speed of oxen is not as regular as that of horses . The wide machine had worked six days , spading thirty acres , or five acres a day . A trial is to be made with the horse machine , using six tines on a machine three feet ...
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... fact that the British farmer applies the labor in such a manner as to secure not only the best but the greatest possible results , whilst the Ohio farmer employs a laborer only to perform such ordinary routine duties as the landlord ...
... fact that the British farmer applies the labor in such a manner as to secure not only the best but the greatest possible results , whilst the Ohio farmer employs a laborer only to perform such ordinary routine duties as the landlord ...
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... fact that , whatever the opposition to the introduction of root crops , when they once fairly obtain a foothold as a farm crop , they appear to grow rapidly in favor . A correspondent at Port Hope , C. W. , wrote us last year , ( see ...
... fact that , whatever the opposition to the introduction of root crops , when they once fairly obtain a foothold as a farm crop , they appear to grow rapidly in favor . A correspondent at Port Hope , C. W. , wrote us last year , ( see ...
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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...