House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d Session-49th Congress, 1st Session, Volum 16 |
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A. B. Paterson acre Acting Rear-Admiral Porter agricultural amount animals average beetles birds breed bushels cattle cent cheese climate color corn cows crop cultivation culture curd destroy districts dollars early ending June 30 England Estimates for appropriations Fahrenheit farm farmers feed feet flax flowers fruit garden Genus goat grain granivorous grape grass ground growth Hampshire heat hogs horses hundred important improved inches increase injurious insectivorous insects June 30 Kelley's Island labor land larvæ Letter Lieutenant Commander manufacture manure Massachusetts Mean rain Mean temp mean temperature milk Milwaukie mules observed Ohio plants plough pounds quantity queen Rear-Admiral rennet Report of Acting ripening river roots season seed sheep soil species spring surface tion tons trees valley varieties vegetation vine Virginia West West Virginia wheat whey wine winter wool yield York
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Side 162 - The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Side 45 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Side 337 - Apart from this, there is something agreeable to our better nature in having a home that we can call our own. It is a form of property that is more than property. It speaks to the heart, enlists the sentiments, and ennobles the possessor. The associations that spring up around it, as the birth-place of children — as the scene of life's holiest emotions — as the sanctuary where the spirit cherishes its...
Side 291 - Then is the moment for the hummingbird to secure them. Its long delicate bill enters the cup of the flower, and the protruded double-tubed tongue, delicately sensible, and imbued with a glutinous saliva, touches each insect in succession, and draws it from its lurking-place to be instantly swallowed.
Side 190 - Dunlop, which are allowed to be the best race for yielding milk in Great Britain or Ireland, not only for large quantities, but also for richness and quality.
Side 14 - ... abroad, from whom seeds, plants, and helpful information were obtained. In the first act of appropriation passed after the establishment of the department (Act of February 25, 1863; 12 Stat. L., 682, 691), provision was made for the culture of cotton and tobacco and for continuing the investigation to test the practicability of cultivating and preparing flax and hemp as substitutes for cotton.
Side 571 - Dr. Harris says, that these insects "are effectually destroyed by kilndrying the wheat; and grain that is kept cool, well ventilated, and frequently moved, is said to be free from their attack;" also," by winnowing and sifting rice in the spring, the beetles can be separated, and should be immediately gathered and destroyed.
Side 465 - Tasmania ; along, in short, the whole extent of that arc of the terrestrial sphere which presents the greatest continuity of land. In the first place, Scandinavian genera, and even species, reappear everywhere from Lapland and Iceland to the tops of the Tasmanian alps, in rapidly diminishing numbers it is true, but in vigorous development throughout. They abound on the Alps and Pyrenees, pass on to the Caucasus and Himalaya, thence...
Side 48 - Rocky mountains in the west, do not very materially affect the conditions of climate, except to reduce the temperature in proportion to altitude. There are local differences, to be sure, the result of peculiar position, but the interior valleys of the Alleghanies have nearly the same temperature as the broad slopes on either side, and these opposite slopes scarcely differ in their climatic peculiarities. Unlike the mountains of Europe, however, the...
Side 497 - Denmark, and Sweden. The Polish wheats grow in the country from which they derive their name, and are also hard wheats. It is from their external form that they are distinguished from other wheats. The hard wheats have a compact seed nearly transparent, which, when bitten through, breaks short, 'and shows a very white flour within. The soft wheats are...