Agriculture of Maine: Annual Report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture, Volume 11, Part 1866 |
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Page 90 - Mightiest of all the beasts of chase, That roam in woody Caledon, Crashing the forest in his race, The mountain bull comes thundering on. Fierce, on the hunter's quiver'd band, He rolls his eyes of swarthy glow, Spurns, with black hoof and horn, the sand. And tosses high his mane of snow.
Page 218 - State was then entitled for the "endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 198 - It will be some time, I fear, before an agricultural society, with congressional aid, will be established in this country. We must walk, as other countries have, before we can run ; smaller societies must prepare the way for greater; but, with the lights before us, I hope we shall not be so slow in maturation as older nations have been.
Page 88 - Statutes the tables in the schedule hereto annexed shall be recognized in the construction of contracts, and in all legal proceedings, as establishing, in terms of the weights and measures now in use in the United States, the equivalents of the weights and measures expressed therein in terms of the metric system...
Page 87 - Resolved, That our senators and representatives in Congress be requested to use their influence to secure...
Page 120 - The most probable supposition is, that propagation is done by halves, each parent giving to the offspring the shape of one-half of the body ; thus the back, loins, hind-quarters, general shape, skin and size, follow one parent ; and the fore-quarters, head, vital and nervous system, the other, and we may go so far as to add, that the former in the great majority of cases go with the male parent, and the latter with the female.
Page 185 - Water 928.75 Curd, with a little cream 28.00 Sugar of milk 35.00 Muriate of potash 1.70 Phosphate of potash 0.25 Lactic acid, acetate of potash with a trace of lactate of iron 6.00 Earthy phosphates • .30 1000.00 The same chemist found cream of spec.
Page 88 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be lawful throughout the United States of America to employ the weights and measures of the metric system...
Page 94 - 'at least in the first cross, produced manifest improvement, although the advantage has not often been prolonged much beyond the second generation; but even in the first cross the Short-horns have done little good in Galloway, and as a permanent mixture the choicest southern [Short-horn] bulls have manifestly failed.
Page 139 - ... nature opposes no barrier to their successful admixture, so that in the course of time, by the aid of selection and careful weeding, it is practicable to establish a new breed altogether.