Transactions of the State Agricultural Society of Michigan: With Reports of County Agricultural Societies, for the Year 1849-59. 1849Michigan state agricultural society, 1850 |
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Page 34 - ... articles, productions and improvements, as they may deem proper ; and may perform all such acts as they may deem best calculated to promote the agricultural and household manufacturing interests...
Page 29 - What is the world to them, Its pomp, its pleasure, and its nonsense all, Who in each other clasp whatever fair High fancy forms, and lavish hearts can wish; Something than beauty dearer, should they look Or on the mind, or mind-illumin'd face; Truth, goodness, honour, harmony, and love, The richest bounty of indulgent Heaven?
Page 9 - ... description of the process, in preparing the soil, including the quantity and quality of the manure applied, in raising the crop and in feeding the animal Including the kind and quantity of food, as near as may be.
Page 159 - Oh, knew he but his happiness, of men The happiest he! who far from public rage, Deep in the vale, with a choice few retir'd, Drinks the pure pleasures of the Rural Life.
Page 215 - ... annually, to regulate and award premiums on such articles, productions and improvements as they may deem best calculated to promote the agricultural and household manufacturing interests of this state...
Page 160 - Of prattling children, twined around his neck, And emulous to please him, calling forth The fond parental soul. Nor purpose gay, Amusement, dance, or song, he sternly scorns; For happiness and true philosophy Are of the social still, and smiling kind. This is the life which those who fret in guilt, And guilty cities, never...
Page 8 - State, as shall be provided by the by-laws of the company, and shall hold their offices for one year and until others are chosen and qualified...
Page 33 - SCQ. ifei. for the use of the Legislature, in the month of January, annually, a report an-d statement of its proceedings, specifying the nature of the encouragement proposed by it, and the object for which, and persons to whom, premiums have been awarded ; embracing also such accurate details of the modes of cultivation, of keeping stock, and of other important incidents, as will acquaint farmers and others with the precise manner in which the valuable results recorded can be again obtained ; and...
Page 159 - Sure peace is his; a solid life, estranged To disappointment, and fallacious hope': Rich in content, in Nature's bounty rich, In herbs and fruits...