The Wisconsin Farmer, Volume 15D.J. Powers & Company, 1863 |
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... grow in water ...... N. 298 408 22 16 I. Napoleon's art of war , .. idea of making war , .. National Agr'l Department ... growing vs. stock , .. 139 320 414 Gold mines of Nova Scotia ........ Grain drills . Grass seed . covering ...
... grow in water ...... N. 298 408 22 16 I. Napoleon's art of war , .. idea of making war , .. National Agr'l Department ... growing vs. stock , .. 139 320 414 Gold mines of Nova Scotia ........ Grain drills . Grass seed . covering ...
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... growing vs. stock - raising , 177 Wheat - growing doesn't pay .... 172 mixed with oats , ........ 320 363 Race , lowest ,. 22 take care of , ... 100 and chinch bug ,. 8 Raspberries , ... ..374 , 456 raising vs. wheat - growing , ... 177 ...
... growing vs. stock - raising , 177 Wheat - growing doesn't pay .... 172 mixed with oats , ........ 320 363 Race , lowest ,. 22 take care of , ... 100 and chinch bug ,. 8 Raspberries , ... ..374 , 456 raising vs. wheat - growing , ... 177 ...
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... growing plant , forming , in its natural condition , a tree of good size , and therefore will require severe pruning ... grown as close as the hawthorn or osage orange , will be- come choked . Dr. Warder recommends it as the most ...
... growing plant , forming , in its natural condition , a tree of good size , and therefore will require severe pruning ... grown as close as the hawthorn or osage orange , will be- come choked . Dr. Warder recommends it as the most ...
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... grow . In this way I keep lots of bugs in my garden , and have melons sure every year . If I have no squash seed , I ... grown on a small piece of ground ; planted along the border and walks , they need but slightly interfere with the ...
... grow . In this way I keep lots of bugs in my garden , and have melons sure every year . If I have no squash seed , I ... grown on a small piece of ground ; planted along the border and walks , they need but slightly interfere with the ...
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... growing with an air of doubt as to the answer that should be made . In other words , the impression has been made to some extent that the Delaware is not a thrifty grower . Now we have no actual expe- rience of our own upon which to ...
... growing with an air of doubt as to the answer that should be made . In other words , the impression has been made to some extent that the Delaware is not a thrifty grower . Now we have no actual expe- rience of our own upon which to ...
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Page 280 - And the proud man sighed, with a secret pain, "Ah, that I were free again ! "Free as when I rode that day. Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door. But care and sorrow, and childbirth pain, Left their traces on heart and brain. And oft, when the summer sun shone hot On the new-mown hay in the meadow lot, And she heard the little spring brook fall...
Page 197 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Page 196 - It might be months, or years, or days, I kept no count — I took no note, I had no hope my eyes to raise, And clear them of their dreary mote...
Page 299 - The design of the institution, in fulfillment of the injunction of the constitution, is to afford thorough instruction in agriculture and the natural sciences connected therewith. To effect that object most completely the institution shall combine physical with intellectual education and shall be a high seminary of learning in which the graduate of the common school can commence, pursue, and finish a course of study terminating in thorough theoretic and practical instruction in those sciences and...
Page 115 - If we work upon marble, it will perish ; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of our fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets something which will brighten to all eternity.
Page 343 - The fellow laughed, thinking, no doubt, I was joking with him. " What have you got? said another; I gave him the same answer. When they were dividing the spoil, I was called to an eminence where the chief stood. " What property have you got, my little fellow ?" said he. "I have told two of your people already," I replied; "I have forty dinars sewed in my garments." He ordered them to be ripped open, and found my money.
Page 280 - But low of cattle and song of birds, And health and quiet and loving words." But he thought of his sisters proud and cold, And his mother vain of her rank and gold. So, closing his heart, the Judge rode on, And Maud was left in the field alone.
Page 150 - Alas ! how many examples are now present to my memory, of young men the most anxiously and expensively be-school-mastered, be-tutored, be-lectured, any thing but educated ; who have received arms and ammunition, instead of skill, strength, and courage ; varnished rather than polished ; perilously over-civilized, and most pitiably uncultivated ! And all from inattention to the method dictated by nature herself, to the simple truth, that as the forms in all organized existence, so must all true and...
Page 74 - Celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house and gathers sweetness from every flower...
Page 280 - He would dress me up in silks so fine, And praise and toast me at his wine. My father should wear a broadcloth coat, My brother should sail a painted boat.