The Wisconsin Farmer, Volume 14D.J. Powers & Company, 1862 |
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... side was green and growing . The lines on each side were as straight as the furrows . Can any one give the reasons ? The only one I can find is , that in the deep plowing the bugs found better winter quarters by going deeper . The wheat ...
... side was green and growing . The lines on each side were as straight as the furrows . Can any one give the reasons ? The only one I can find is , that in the deep plowing the bugs found better winter quarters by going deeper . The wheat ...
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... side by side , under similar circum - gacity has taught us that honey constitutes the stances , and with the same amount of food , essence of the blossoms of plants , and by her for some weeks or months together . boon . The whole ...
... side by side , under similar circum - gacity has taught us that honey constitutes the stances , and with the same amount of food , essence of the blossoms of plants , and by her for some weeks or months together . boon . The whole ...
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... side all around , by shading the sunny side . Trees on the north side of a fence , building , grove or hill , gener- ally escape injury , while those upon the sunny side suffer severely , from the great changes of atmosphere to which ...
... side all around , by shading the sunny side . Trees on the north side of a fence , building , grove or hill , gener- ally escape injury , while those upon the sunny side suffer severely , from the great changes of atmosphere to which ...
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... side , and scrubbing , scraping and washing to keep out the wood worm , is of about as much importance towards the removal of the primary cause of the difficulty as the perpetu- al application of quack medicines are to poor Humanity ...
... side , and scrubbing , scraping and washing to keep out the wood worm , is of about as much importance towards the removal of the primary cause of the difficulty as the perpetu- al application of quack medicines are to poor Humanity ...
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... side by a high wall , the wall itself is surmounted by a lofty iron railing , defended by innumerable sharp spear heads , which are so contrived , that if a person touches any one of them , a chime of bells begins instantly to ring an ...
... side by a high wall , the wall itself is surmounted by a lofty iron railing , defended by innumerable sharp spear heads , which are so contrived , that if a person touches any one of them , a chime of bells begins instantly to ring an ...
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Page 388 - 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 389 - 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...
Page 388 - 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, 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: And provided further.
Page 388 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 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 to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of eighteen hundred and sixty ; Provided, That no mineral lands shall be...
Page 193 - Except now and then a stray picket Is shot, as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket. 'Tis nothing: a private or two, now and then, Will not count in the news of the battle; Not an officer lost, — only one of the men, Moaning out, all alone, the death-rattle." All quiet along the Potomac...
Page 388 - 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 whicl> it belongs, so that the capital of the fund shall remain forever undiminished...
Page 25 - Here woman reigns; the mother, daughter, wife, Strews with fresh flowers the narrow way of life! In the clear heaven of her delightful eye, An angel-guard of loves and graces lie! Around her knees domestic .duties meet, And fireside pleasures gambol at her feet.
Page 388 - That all moneys derived from the sale of the lands aforesaid by the States to which the lands are apportioned, and from the sales of land scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be invested in stocks of the United States, or of the States, or some other safe stocks...
Page 388 - ... such State, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to issue to each of the States in which there is not the quantity of public lands subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, to which said State may be entitled under the provisions of this act, land scrip to the amount in acres for the deficiency of its distributive share...
Page 388 - ... 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, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.