Agriculture of Maine: Annual Report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture, Volume 34, Parts 1891-1892 |
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... season was to be varied from that of previous years ; that the institute was to become more a school of instruction in which all off hand practi- cal talks on agricultural topics of special interest to the farmers in the locality where ...
... season was to be varied from that of previous years ; that the institute was to become more a school of instruction in which all off hand practi- cal talks on agricultural topics of special interest to the farmers in the locality where ...
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... season , receive his proportionate part of the cheese , or what it has brought , deducting the expense of making . This method has been eminently satisfactory as each one supplying milk was allowed to take back his proportionable part ...
... season , receive his proportionate part of the cheese , or what it has brought , deducting the expense of making . This method has been eminently satisfactory as each one supplying milk was allowed to take back his proportionable part ...
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... season is excessive and generally satisfies the most grasping , yet the conditions are natural to the animal ; life giving and health giving , if the change from the barn to the pasture has not been too sudden . Because an article of ...
... season is excessive and generally satisfies the most grasping , yet the conditions are natural to the animal ; life giving and health giving , if the change from the barn to the pasture has not been too sudden . Because an article of ...
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... season , and in a measure even up the supply . But cold storage means that the butter shall remain intact . No one really wants stale or re - packed goods of this kind . But- ter cannot be re - worked and retain its desirable qualities ...
... season , and in a measure even up the supply . But cold storage means that the butter shall remain intact . No one really wants stale or re - packed goods of this kind . But- ter cannot be re - worked and retain its desirable qualities ...
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... season from well tilled fields , it will be a shame for the Maine dairymen to suffer by comparison . A TALK WITH THE MAN WHO PRODUCES THE MILK . By HON . W. D. HOARD , Wisconsin . Mr. President , Ladies and Gentlemen : My talk , before ...
... season from well tilled fields , it will be a shame for the Maine dairymen to suffer by comparison . A TALK WITH THE MAN WHO PRODUCES THE MILK . By HON . W. D. HOARD , Wisconsin . Mr. President , Ladies and Gentlemen : My talk , before ...
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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...