Annual Report of the Missouri State Board of AgricultureMissouri State Board of Agriculture, 1894 |
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Page 14
... live ; they cost nothing , and time is too precious to waste in any argument or apprecia - tion ; and when wealth makes splendid floral displays , and science and art are taxed to produce the most marvelous and entrancing collections ...
... live ; they cost nothing , and time is too precious to waste in any argument or apprecia - tion ; and when wealth makes splendid floral displays , and science and art are taxed to produce the most marvelous and entrancing collections ...
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... lives . This I consider of high educative value , for I believe a child gets more true growth from simply raising one rose or begonia to bloom from cutting or seed than they would from the study of a dozen pages in geography or ...
... lives . This I consider of high educative value , for I believe a child gets more true growth from simply raising one rose or begonia to bloom from cutting or seed than they would from the study of a dozen pages in geography or ...
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... lives in this western country the man who was express messenger on the train which carried the first shipment of five crates of strawberries to the Chicago market . Not very many years ago I took to the Kansas City market a few crates ...
... lives in this western country the man who was express messenger on the train which carried the first shipment of five crates of strawberries to the Chicago market . Not very many years ago I took to the Kansas City market a few crates ...
Page 73
... of whatever nature , and add your courage and culture as forces to mould the lives of men . Your reward will be more sure than the barvest after seed - time . THE OUTLOOK . There can be nothing cheery about the SUMMER MEETING . 73.
... of whatever nature , and add your courage and culture as forces to mould the lives of men . Your reward will be more sure than the barvest after seed - time . THE OUTLOOK . There can be nothing cheery about the SUMMER MEETING . 73.
Page 74
... live , and the product of your labors will be a living monument to your success . Our villages are here to stay , let us make the best of them . Their society can be purer than that of the city , and the atmosphere more wholesome to the ...
... live , and the product of your labors will be a living monument to your success . Our villages are here to stay , let us make the best of them . Their society can be purer than that of the city , and the atmosphere more wholesome to the ...
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Page 341 - To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
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Page 214 - The men, though young, having tasted the first drop from the cup of thought, are already dissipated : the maples and ferns are still uncorrupt ; yet no doubt, when they come to consciousness, they too will curse and swear.
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Page 152 - There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate, She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate. The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near ;" And the white rose weeps, "She is late;" The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear;" And the lily whispers, "I wait.
Page 319 - KIND hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the blossoms, Kind deeds are the fruits; Love is the sweet sunshine That warms into life, For only in darkness Grow hatred and strife.
Page 214 - Nothing is foreign; parts relate to whole; One all-extending, all-preserving soul Connects each being, greatest with the least, Made beast in aid of man, and man of beast; All served, all serving; nothing stands alone; The chain holds on, and where it ends unknown.
Page 213 - A man may fish with a worm that hath eat of a king ; and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.