Report, Volume 17New Hampshire Department of Agriculture, 1888 |
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... Hampshire 32,181 farms , at an estimated value of $ 75,834,389 . The farming tools and implements are valued at $ 3,069,240 , and live - stock at $ 9,812,064 . According to the last census , there were grown in the INSTITUTES. ...
... Hampshire 32,181 farms , at an estimated value of $ 75,834,389 . The farming tools and implements are valued at $ 3,069,240 , and live - stock at $ 9,812,064 . According to the last census , there were grown in the INSTITUTES. ...
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New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture. to the last census , there were grown in the State 36,612 acres of corn , 29,485 acres of oats , 28,778 acres of potatoes , and 583,069 tons of hay . The butter production amounted to 7,247,272 ...
New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture. to the last census , there were grown in the State 36,612 acres of corn , 29,485 acres of oats , 28,778 acres of potatoes , and 583,069 tons of hay . The butter production amounted to 7,247,272 ...
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... grown and fed to thoroughbred Durham stock and some of the finest grade Durham and Hereford steers we have yet seen . He also has a superior flock of cross - bred sheep . Fourteen hundred bushels of potatoes , grown on five acres of ...
... grown and fed to thoroughbred Durham stock and some of the finest grade Durham and Hereford steers we have yet seen . He also has a superior flock of cross - bred sheep . Fourteen hundred bushels of potatoes , grown on five acres of ...
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... grown on grass land . Corn can be produced for one half the expense on land adapted to its growth , and twice the amount of grass can be grown on moist grass land that can be produced on dry soil . Grass has many plants to the square ...
... grown on grass land . Corn can be produced for one half the expense on land adapted to its growth , and twice the amount of grass can be grown on moist grass land that can be produced on dry soil . Grass has many plants to the square ...
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... grow more on ensilage and grain than in the pasture . He was satisfied that the silo had come to stay when he built his in 1881. He felt the same to- day . Ensilage feed would not only make more milk 42 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE .
... grow more on ensilage and grain than in the pasture . He was satisfied that the silo had come to stay when he built his in 1881. He felt the same to- day . Ensilage feed would not only make more milk 42 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE .
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Page 289 - 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 290 - 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...
Page 264 - 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 yielding not less than five per centum upon the par value of said stocks...
Page 375 - SEC. 8. That in States having colleges entitled under this section to the benefits of this act and having also agricultural experiment stations established by law separate from said colleges, such States shall be authorized to apply such benefits to experiments at stations so established by such States...
Page 375 - That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of the Treasury from the annual statement of receipts and expenditures of any of said stations that a portion of the preceding annual appropriation remains unexpended, such amount shall be deducted from the next succeeding annual appropriation to such station...
Page 290 - Fourth. 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 375 - SEC. 10. Nothing in this act shall be held or construed as binding the United States to continue any payments from the Treasury to any or all the States or institutions mentioned in this act, but Congress may at any time amend suspend or repeal any or all the provisions of this act.
Page 264 - for 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 289 - And be it further enacted, that all the expenses of management, superintendence, and taxes, from date of selection of said lands previous to their sales, and all expenses incurred in the management and disbursement of the moneys which may be received therefrom, shall be paid by the States to which they may belong, out of the treasury of said States, so that the entire proceeds of the sale of said lands shall be applied without any diminution whatever to the purposes hereinafter mentioned. SECT. 4....
Page 375 - ... appropriation herein made as shall become due to any State before the adjournment of the regular session of its Legislature meeting next after the passage of this act, shall be made upon the assent of the Governor thereof duly certified to the secretary of the treasury.