Agriculture of Maine: Annual Report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture, Volume 34, Parts 1891-1892 |
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... animals are not receiving much for the labor expended because the product is not finished . Those who have bought this young stock and fed it have been doing good business . It seems to me that the Board of Agriculture might do a good ...
... animals are not receiving much for the labor expended because the product is not finished . Those who have bought this young stock and fed it have been doing good business . It seems to me that the Board of Agriculture might do a good ...
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... animal's productive powers to the utmost . It is just as wicked to milk a cow to death as it is to work an ox or ... animal gives forth a fevered product , and although the evil results may not be seen , the consequences are not to be ...
... animal's productive powers to the utmost . It is just as wicked to milk a cow to death as it is to work an ox or ... animal gives forth a fevered product , and although the evil results may not be seen , the consequences are not to be ...
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... animals , and almost every farmer is endeavoring to improve his barns in this direction . A great improve- ment as regards the animals housed has been made , but there is danger in it . Close stalls without proper ventilation are ...
... animals , and almost every farmer is endeavoring to improve his barns in this direction . A great improve- ment as regards the animals housed has been made , but there is danger in it . Close stalls without proper ventilation are ...
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... animals for two hundred days . Sprinkle this land plaster as I suggested and you accomplish two results ; you take this valuable , irritating gas out of the air that your cattle are to breathe and save the fertilizer . Step into the ...
... animals for two hundred days . Sprinkle this land plaster as I suggested and you accomplish two results ; you take this valuable , irritating gas out of the air that your cattle are to breathe and save the fertilizer . Step into the ...
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... Animals ) could not be fooled that way ; they bought the bran . They had taken their pencils and , with an understanding of the value of each food to start with , they soon found that one ton of bran had more feeding value in it for a ...
... Animals ) could not be fooled that way ; they bought the bran . They had taken their pencils and , with an understanding of the value of each food to start with , they soon found that one ton of bran had more feeding value in it for a ...
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Page 53 - God might have bade the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. We might have had enough, enough For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine and toil, And yet have had no flowers. The ore within the mountain mine Requireth none to grow; Nor doth it need the lotus-flower To make the river flow.
Page 134 - You call them thieves and pillagers; but know, They are the winged wardens of your farms, Who from the cornfields drive the insidious foe, And from your harvests keep a hundred harms; Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail, And crying havoc on the slug and snail.
Page 38 - An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, established under the provisions of an Act of Congress, approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," the deficiency, if any, in the sum.
Page 53 - Springing in valleys green and low. And on the mountains high, And in the silent wilderness Where no man passes by ? Our outward life requires them not — Then wherefore had they birth ? — : To minister delight to man, To beautify the earth ; To comfort man — to whisper hope, Whene'er his faith is dim, For who so careth for the flowers . Will much more care for him ! THE CARRION CROW.
Page 26 - AN ACT To establish agricultural experiment stations In connection with the colleges established In the several States under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto...
Page 203 - Heat the solution of soap and add it boiling hot to the kerosene. Churn the mixture by means of a force pump and spray nozzle for five or ten minutes. The emulsion, if perfect, forms a cream which thickens on cooling and should adhere without oiliness to the surface of the glass.
Page 19 - ... knowing them to be affected with any contagious, infectious or communicable disease; nor shall any person, company or corporation drive on foot or transport in private conveyance from one state or territory to another, or from any state into the District of Columbia, or from the District into any state, any live stock, knowing them to be affected with any contagious, infectious or communicable disease...
Page 16 - The said commissioners shall respectively take an oath to faithfully perform the duties of their office, and shall immediately organize as such commission by the election of one of their number as president thereof, and proceed forthwith to the discharge of the duties devolved upon them by the provisions of this act.
Page 16 - ... and to make search, investigation and inquiry, in regard to the existence thereof. Upon the discovery of the existence of any of the said diseases, the said...
Page 20 - SECT. 10. That the commissioners shall have power, and are hereby authorized to employ skilled veterinarians, and such other agents and employes as they may deem necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act, and to fix the compensation of the person or persons so employed, and to terminate such employment at their discretion ; and they are authorized...