Annual Report of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture, Volume 25State Board of Agriculture, 1884 Volumes for 1869- include Annual report of the Geological Survey of Indiana. |
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Page 613 - A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
Page 617 - ... use in plastering walls, and you see I can, with the slightest effort, blow air through four inches of dry plaster. Not only can the air pass through these bodies, but it does pass under natural conditions, and plastered walls breathe. In plastered rooms where the walls have been left undisturbed for some time, you see the position of every beam and joist, and even the lath, by the lighter color of the wall. The part of the wall occupied by the plaster only is more permeable by air, which, in...
Page 445 - the man who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before...
Page 620 - If nature had only planted a gravel-bed under his whole farm, outcropping on some stream-side, so the cold waters might laugh and sing on their way to their home in the sea, thus warming up his soil to early fruitfulness and warming up his soul to the real joy that springs from hope and health, bringing light and laughter to the housewife by letting the tinkling spring-drop replace the scalding tear-drop, how changed the history of such a farm ! Competence, and even abundance, come from the grateful...
Page 192 - With what a keen eye must the market be watched and the movements of the bulls and the bears. One must know the difference between an honest deal and a dishonest corner. He must watch the great commercial movements. He must not only watch the rain cloud over his own head, but he must know that it is only by watching the climatic influences all over the world that he can tell when to sell and when to hold. He must of necessity understand political economy; the laws of production, the relation of capital...
Page 618 - Here is a jar seventeen inches high filled with compact, dry soil, the top closed with a doubly perforated cork ; through one hole a glass tube passes to the bottom of the jar, but terminates above in a horizontal jet ; through the other hole a tube passes to the space above the soil. On blowing into this tube gently you see that the air passes down through fourteen inches of soil, because it escapes freely at the horizontal jet of the other tube, as is shown by blowing the candle flame before it.
Page 618 - Humid, confined situations, subject to great alteration of temperature between day and night, are the most dangerous. Of all the physical qualities of the air, humidity is the most injurious to human life." (Buck, 1, p. 444.) An investigation into the causes of an outbreak of diphtheria in New York in 1872, brought out the fact that many of the old water-courses and natural springs had been filled in years before, without making any provision for draining the soil, and the disease seemed to be especially...
Page 199 - Princes or kings may flourish or may fade, A breath can make them as a breath has made ; But a bold yeomanry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 616 - But the evaporation of so much water, producing cold, renders the air over such a soil damp and chilly. This result is a physical necessity. This damp and chilly atmosphere has a more serious influence than the simple feeling of discomfort. It has a most depressing influence on the human system, lowering its tone, enfeebling the vital powers, and acting as the predisposing cause of a long list of diseases, some of them the most destructive and incurable known to medicine. The depressing influence...
Page 622 - Children were born, of apparent vigor and promise, but these, one by one, sank into the arms of the dreamless twin brother of sleep, under the touch of diphtheria, croup, and pneumonia. The mother went into a decline, and died of consumption before her fiftieth birthday ; and the father, tortured and crippled by rheumatism, childless and solitary in that beautiful home which elicits the praises of every passer-by, waits and hopes for the dawning of that day which shall give him back wife and children,...