Annual Report of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society for the Year ...The Society, 1887 |
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... Berries .. 2.00 1 00 Best quart Sharpless ........ Best quart Windsor Chief ... 2.00 1.00 2.00 1 00 Best quart Seth Boyden ...... Best quart Green Prolific ...... Best quart Capt . Jack .......... Best quart Col. Cheney .. Best quart ...
... Berries .. 2.00 1 00 Best quart Sharpless ........ Best quart Windsor Chief ... 2.00 1.00 2.00 1 00 Best quart Seth Boyden ...... Best quart Green Prolific ...... Best quart Capt . Jack .......... Best quart Col. Cheney .. Best quart ...
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... berries picked for a rate per quart to prove entirely satisfactory . The expert picker will frequently make from two to three dollars per day in the busy season , and then quit work as the berries become thin . This tends to demoralize ...
... berries picked for a rate per quart to prove entirely satisfactory . The expert picker will frequently make from two to three dollars per day in the busy season , and then quit work as the berries become thin . This tends to demoralize ...
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... berries . It pays well to assort the fruit , even if the poorest is thrown away . Then it is profitable to use only ... berries are no better than they run through the box . There is no harm in placing the top berries so that the stems ...
... berries . It pays well to assort the fruit , even if the poorest is thrown away . Then it is profitable to use only ... berries are no better than they run through the box . There is no harm in placing the top berries so that the stems ...
Page 30
... berries that are shipped in from a dis- tance and place them in boxes among the berries that you have brought in to sell , with your name on the boxes . The customer is thus imposed upon , and it hurts your reputation the whole season ...
... berries that are shipped in from a dis- tance and place them in boxes among the berries that you have brought in to sell , with your name on the boxes . The customer is thus imposed upon , and it hurts your reputation the whole season ...
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... berries , but the Snyder might stand when the Ancient Briton would kill down . And it is perhaps a week or ten days earlier than the Ancient Briton . Mr. Jackson . I would like to inquire about a berry found in old pastures in Wisconsin ...
... berries , but the Snyder might stand when the Ancient Briton would kill down . And it is perhaps a week or ten days earlier than the Ancient Briton . Mr. Jackson . I would like to inquire about a berry found in old pastures in Wisconsin ...
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Page 330 - 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; the chemical composition of useful plants at their different stages of growth; the comparative advantages of rotative cropping as pursued under...
Page 14 - THE TREASURER. The treasurer shall collect and hold all funds of the Society, and pay out the same only on the order of the president, countersigned by the secretary. He shall make up a report of all the receipts and disbursements of the Society, and present the same at the annual winter meeting, or at auy other time when called upon to do so by the executive committee.
Page 408 - Resolved, That, a committee of three be appointed by the chair to...
Page 63 - As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time." Idleness is the thief of time, and if we should make use of each moment with the mind directed to some particular object, how much more would we accomplish. Show me a man that has methodical, systematic ways of doing everything with which he is connected, and he is invariably a successful business man in whatever industry he may be engaged.
Page 245 - The busy day — the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Page 62 - It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to instruct even our friends...
Page 333 - I am confirmed in the opinion, that the best means of producing new and excellent varieties, suited either to general cultivation or to particular localities, is to plant the most mature and perfect seeds of the most hardy, vigorous, and valuable sorts, on the general pathological principle that "like produces like...
Page 375 - For successful grafting the work must be done as soon as the frost is out of the ground in the spring, sometimes a short delay will prove disastrous.
Page 14 - The secretary shall record all the doings of the Society, collate and prepare all communications, etc., for the public press, and pay over all moneys received from members or otherwise to the treasurer on his receipt...
Page 464 - ... trying the same, and shall be liable to the party injured, in a civil action, for any damages sustained.