The Farmers' Alliance History and Agricultural Digest, Volume 1Alliance, 1891 - 742 pages |
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Page vii
... Italy , France , Germany and Other Northern States , Britain ; Intro- duction of Potatoes into Europe ; Cromwell's Army in Scotland ; Works on Agriculture . IV . HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE IN THE UNITED States .. 444 Agriculture of the ...
... Italy , France , Germany and Other Northern States , Britain ; Intro- duction of Potatoes into Europe ; Cromwell's Army in Scotland ; Works on Agriculture . IV . HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE IN THE UNITED States .. 444 Agriculture of the ...
Page 320
... Italians and Hungarians for them . It would seem that system and business methods demand that there should be a class of workmen who are of a lower order of intelligence . This system of substituting the ignorant workman in the place of ...
... Italians and Hungarians for them . It would seem that system and business methods demand that there should be a class of workmen who are of a lower order of intelligence . This system of substituting the ignorant workman in the place of ...
Page 374
... Italy , and then in France and Germany ; but it flourished most in Switzerland and Holland ; and finally , in recent times , has attained its high- est degree of perfection in England . The modern agriculture of America is copied from ...
... Italy , and then in France and Germany ; but it flourished most in Switzerland and Holland ; and finally , in recent times , has attained its high- est degree of perfection in England . The modern agriculture of America is copied from ...
Page 382
... Italy , and other countries of the Continent . Afterward it was laid up in bins , chests , or granaries , and taken out as wanted by the family , to be pounded into meal in mortars or quern - mills . ― Thorns and other plants for hedges ...
... Italy , and other countries of the Continent . Afterward it was laid up in bins , chests , or granaries , and taken out as wanted by the family , to be pounded into meal in mortars or quern - mills . ― Thorns and other plants for hedges ...
Page 401
... Italy . It is mentioned by Pliny as having been " found out in Britain and Gaul . " " It is a certain richness of earth , " he says , " like the kernels in animal bodies that are increased by fatness . " He adds that " marl was known to ...
... Italy . It is mentioned by Pliny as having been " found out in Britain and Gaul . " " It is a certain richness of earth , " he says , " like the kernels in animal bodies that are increased by fatness . " He adds that " marl was known to ...
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Page 723 - ... that he will support the Constitution of the United States, and that he absolutely and entirely renounces and abjures all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, and particularly, by name, to the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty of which he was before, a citizen or subject," which proceedings must be recorded by the clerk of the court.
Page 705 - ... giving and granting unto my said attorney full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes, as I might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution and revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said attorney or his substitute shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Page 378 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 449 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain; Teach him, that states of native strength...
Page 617 - Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home ; A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there, Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere. Home ! home ! sweet, sweet home ! There's no place like home...
Page 726 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 727 - He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection, and waging war against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is, at this time, transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny already begun, with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
Page 647 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Page 728 - Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris. NEW JERSEY. — Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark. PENNSYLVANIA. — Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross.
Page 276 - But what of the negro ? Have we solved the problem he presents or progressed in honor and equity toward solution? Let the record speak to the point. No section shows a more prosperous laboring population than the negroes of the South, none in fuller sympathy with the employing and land-owning class.