Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for The Year 1874 |
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Página 294 - Excellency was pleased to say last year, " the subject of irrigation is one that appeals very closely to my concern. We are all familiar with the aphorism about the service of the statesman who can make two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before...
Página 429 - Branch alone. 5. A general business meeting shall be held annually on a date in the last week in May or the first week in June. 6. Two ordinary meetings shall be held each term, at which papers will be read, and to which members shall be at liberty to bring friends. The following papers have been read at the ordinary meetings : " Trades Unions in the Roman Empire,
Página 159 - ... nothing, is as apt to leap against a wall or a man, as in any other direction. Anything which excites him appears to induce the fits, which, I think, are more apt to occur in crossing water than elsewhere, and the animal sometimes falls so exhausted as to drown in water not over two feet deep.
Página 159 - Anything which excites him appears to induce the fits, which, I think are more apt to occur in crossing water than elsewhere, and the animal sometimes falls so exhausted as to drown in water not over 2 feet deep. He loses flesh from the first, and sometimes presents the appearance of a walking skeleton. In the next and last stage, he only goes from the "loco...
Página 261 - My principal object in dibbling is to insure perfect singleness and regularity of plant, with uniformity of depth. The two latter may be attained by the drill, as may the former also by adopting the following plan. The seed-cups ordinarily used in drilling wheat are so large that they deliver bunches of grains consisting of six or seven, which fall together within a very small area, from which a less produce will be obtained than if it had been occupied by a single grain. The additional grains are...
Página 11 - He makes analyses of natural fertilizers, vegetable products, and other materials which pertain to the interests of agriculture. Applications are constantly made from all portions of the country for the analysis of soils, minerals, liquids, and manures.
Página 261 - By repeated careful selection the superiority is accumulated. 6. The improvement, which is at first rapid, gradually, after a long series of years, is diminished in amount, and eventually so far arrested that, practically speakIng, a limit to improvement in the desired quality is reached. 7. By still continuing to select, the improvement is maintained and practically a fixed type is the result.
Página 381 - ... as Egypt. His warning was given in a more optimistic mood: "We are in a position to protect ourselves and our posterity by, if I may use so hard a word, prophylactic measures — to supply the remedy before the disease manifests itself; whereas in the Old World irrigation had become a widely-spread and deeply-rooted agricultural method before its mischiefs were appreciated, or even suspected, and a preventive policy came too late."4 Both Emory and Marsh saw in irrigation a potential threat to...
Página 424 - ... valuable minerals, in quantities that have attracted the attention of the civilized world. Her inhabitants are the representatives of every nation on the face of the globe; an enterprising, active people, that have, in a few years, erected a prosperous State upon the most remote borders "of civilization. With these natural advantages of soil, climate, and mineral deposit, no uncertainty as to the future of California can reasonably be entertained. Her population is steadily increasing; her resources...
Página 125 - The Bishop also issued a form of prayer for relief from the plague of locusts, to be used in the Churches throughout his Diocese. From the September " Report of the Department of Agriculture," at Washington, we cull the following note from Kansas : — " The late summer and fall crops have been almost entirely destroyed by grasshoppers. The common jumping grasshopper did much damage through the early part of the season, but about the middle of August clouds of the flying ones made their appearance...