Report, Volume 17New Hampshire Department of Agriculture, 1888 |
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... pounds of butter in 1887 , and have returned to the farmers an average of twenty - two cents for the cream to make one pound of butter . Several new creameries have been established during the year , and if still more were established ...
... pounds of butter in 1887 , and have returned to the farmers an average of twenty - two cents for the cream to make one pound of butter . Several new creameries have been established during the year , and if still more were established ...
Page 15
... pound of butter can be produced at as small expense as thirty years ago . We refer now to those farms of the State that are worth cultivating , and not to the hilly sections with thin soil that can only be profitably used in the growth ...
... pound of butter can be produced at as small expense as thirty years ago . We refer now to those farms of the State that are worth cultivating , and not to the hilly sections with thin soil that can only be profitably used in the growth ...
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... pounds , cheese 807,076 pounds , and wool 1,060,589 pounds . About one half the population of the State are engaged in agricultural pursuits . In the United States corn is reckoned the most valuable crop , being placed at twice the ...
... pounds , cheese 807,076 pounds , and wool 1,060,589 pounds . About one half the population of the State are engaged in agricultural pursuits . In the United States corn is reckoned the most valuable crop , being placed at twice the ...
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... pound , the large southern made it cost twenty - two cents . Feeding grains with the large kinds , sufficient to bring the product up to the standard of the Sanford , made the butter cost thirty cents a pound . Whatever Prof. Stewart ...
... pound , the large southern made it cost twenty - two cents . Feeding grains with the large kinds , sufficient to bring the product up to the standard of the Sanford , made the butter cost thirty cents a pound . Whatever Prof. Stewart ...
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... pound of beef , or a bushel of corn under various conditions of feed and soil . At the present time all farming is in a measure experimental . Farming must now be run as a business as well as an occupation . Instead of figuring , we ...
... pound of beef , or a bushel of corn under various conditions of feed and soil . At the present time all farming is in a measure experimental . Farming must now be run as a business as well as an occupation . Instead of figuring , we ...
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Page 373 - That in order to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science...
Page 325 - This police power of the state extends to the protection of the lives, limbs, health, comfort, and quiet of all persons, and the protection of all property within the state.
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 267 - Part further covenants and agrees to merchandise such wheat in foreign ports, it being understood and agreed between the Party of the First Part and the Party of the Second Part...
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 373 - That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment stations to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals ; the diseases to which they are severally subject, with the remedies for the same...
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 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.