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Page 27
... question is how to do it . I consider it one of the most important questions . Hungarian grass has been proposed , and I will propose sweet corn . I have had some experience in this variety . Last year I obtained some seed of an ...
... question is how to do it . I consider it one of the most important questions . Hungarian grass has been proposed , and I will propose sweet corn . I have had some experience in this variety . Last year I obtained some seed of an ...
Page 35
... question as to the principles which should govern the selection of seed corn . In obtaining seed corn there are two fundamental direc- tions . 1st , select that race or kind which is fitted for your climate , your uses or your market ...
... question as to the principles which should govern the selection of seed corn . In obtaining seed corn there are two fundamental direc- tions . 1st , select that race or kind which is fitted for your climate , your uses or your market ...
Page 37
... question must be deemed unsettled . We think , however , that the length is governed by climate , and that it is not well to attempt to secure a larger ear than our locality warrants , through the tendency to coarseness and looseness ...
... question must be deemed unsettled . We think , however , that the length is governed by climate , and that it is not well to attempt to secure a larger ear than our locality warrants , through the tendency to coarseness and looseness ...
Page 45
... question very readily answered . Let each farmer improve his seed ever so little , and keep at it , and soon 200 bushels of shelled corn per acre , at harvest , will seem no more strange than 100 bushels does now . Fertilizer can be ...
... question very readily answered . Let each farmer improve his seed ever so little , and keep at it , and soon 200 bushels of shelled corn per acre , at harvest , will seem no more strange than 100 bushels does now . Fertilizer can be ...
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... question . I have an idea of my own in regard to it . I think roots have a double function , but I have no facts to prove my belief in that respect . It is simply my own idea upon the subject . QUES . How long will dressing last upon ...
... question . I have an idea of my own in regard to it . I think roots have a double function , but I have no facts to prove my belief in that respect . It is simply my own idea upon the subject . QUES . How long will dressing last upon ...
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Page 248 - ... provided, that no donation, grant or endowment shall at any time be made by the legislature to any literary institution now established, or which may hereafter be established, unless, at the time of making such endowment, the legislature of the state shall have the right to grant any further powers to, alter, limit or restrain any of the powers vested in, any such literary institution, as shall be judged necessary to promote the best interests thereof.
Page 247 - ... impress on the minds of the children and youth committed to their care and instruction the principles of morality, and justice and a sacred regard for truth; love of country; humanity and a universal benevolence; sobriety, industry and frugality; chastity, moderation and temperance; and all other virtues which ornament human society...
Page 241 - ... be punished by fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year in the house of correction in said county of Middlesex.
Page 251 - ... successfully cultivates the same for three years, the trees being not less in numbers than two thousand on each acre and well distributed over the same, then, on application of the owner or occupant thereof to the assessors of the town in which such land is situated, the same shall be exempt from taxation for twenty years after...
Page 205 - Said selectmen and mayor and aldermen may make regulations in writing to regulate or prohibit the passage from, to, or through their respective cities or towns, or from place to place within the same, of any...
Page 239 - ... one dollar fine for riding or driving on this bridge faster than a walk.
Page 220 - ... shall record and preserve as evidence; and a certificate of such result, sworn to by the analyzer, shall be admissible in evidence in all prosecutions under this act.
Page 251 - Each fence viewer shall be paid by the person employing him at the rate of two dollars a day for the time he shall be so employed; and if such person shall neglect to pay the same within thirty days after the service shall have been performed, each fence viewer having performed any such service may recover in an action of assumpsit double the amount of such fees.
Page 243 - Virgin, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of the Trustees of the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, having succession as hereinafter provided, with power to establish and maintain, subject to the provisions and limitations of this act, such a college as is authorized and provided for, by the act of...
Page 245 - ... that a sum not exceeding ten per centum upon the amount received by any State under the provisions of this act may be expended for the purchase of lands for sites or experimental farms, whenever authorized by the respective legislatures of said States.