Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Volume 36W. White, 1889 - Agriculture |
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Page 45
... irrigation ditch or the artesian well in Algeria , our western plains and elsewhere . And , while digressing , I may as well remind you that all arable soil contains the fertility requisite for multitudes of crops , and that under ...
... irrigation ditch or the artesian well in Algeria , our western plains and elsewhere . And , while digressing , I may as well remind you that all arable soil contains the fertility requisite for multitudes of crops , and that under ...
Page 52
... irrigation ! The succeeding cultivations can properly follow no definite intervals . The object is to conserve moisture , and hence whenever through rain or otherwise the surface hardens and establishes surface connections to the cap ...
... irrigation ! The succeeding cultivations can properly follow no definite intervals . The object is to conserve moisture , and hence whenever through rain or otherwise the surface hardens and establishes surface connections to the cap ...
Page 168
... Irrigation , by a gentleman who not only practices it extensively upon market garden crops , but has the past season journeyed across the continent to observe the workings of the systems of irrigation in Colorado and California . He is ...
... Irrigation , by a gentleman who not only practices it extensively upon market garden crops , but has the past season journeyed across the continent to observe the workings of the systems of irrigation in Colorado and California . He is ...
Page 169
... irrigation becomes a necessity . The better facilities one has , the less the expense , and the more perfect will be the success in securing the crop . When the grower understands irrigation , it is much easier to get a good crop under ...
... irrigation becomes a necessity . The better facilities one has , the less the expense , and the more perfect will be the success in securing the crop . When the grower understands irrigation , it is much easier to get a good crop under ...
Page 170
... irrigation is taken from ponds , rivers , brooks , or it is pumped from driven wells . I much prefer to pump from wells in all cases , because in the summer the water from ponds or rivers is quite warm , while that from wells is cool ...
... irrigation is taken from ponds , rivers , brooks , or it is pumped from driven wells . I much prefer to pump from wells in all cases , because in the summer the water from ponds or rivers is quite warm , while that from wells is cool ...
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Page 212 - Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth ; thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
Page 168 - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Page 259 - SOME murmur, when their sky is clear And wholly bright to view, If one small speck of dark appear In their great heaven of blue : And some with thankful love are filled If but one streak of light, One ray of God's good mercy gild The darkness of their night.
Page 559 - ... at the drawing and sealing of said samples; one of said duplicate samples shall be retained by the director and the other by the party whose stock was sampled ; and the sample or samples retained by the director shall be for comparison with the certified statement named in section three of this act.
Page 558 - ... provided, that whenever the manufacturer or importer shall have paid the fee herein required for any person acting as agent or seller for such manufacturer or importer, suuh agent or seller shall not be required to pay the fee named in this...
Page 558 - Before any commercial fertilizer is sold or offered or exposed for sale, the manufacturer, importer or party who causes it to be sold or offered for sale, within this state, shall file with the secretary of the...
Page 337 - In the United States of America, where the means of subsistence have been more ample, the manners of the people more pure, and consequently the checks to early marriages fewer, than in any of the modern states of Europe, the population has been found to double itself in twenty-five years.
Page 309 - The time will therefore come when one hundred and fifty millions of men will be living in North America, equal in condition, the progeny of one race, owing their origin to the same cause, and preserving the same civilization, the same language, the same religion, the same habits, the same manners, and imbued with the same opinions, propagated under the same forms.
Page 337 - Were the face of the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread with one kind only, as for instance with fennel; and were it empty of other inhabitants, it might in a few ages be replenished from one nation only, as for instance with Englishmen.
Page 337 - The cause to which I allude, is the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it.