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Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society Massachusetts Horticultural Society Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1874 |
Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society Massachusetts Horticultural Society Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1882 |
Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society Massachusetts Horticultural Society Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1890 |
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Side 119 - ... the country and make it richer and more attractive for the mothers, wives and daughters of farmers should be done promptly, thoroughly and gladly. There is no more important person, measured in influence upon the life of the nation, than the farmer's wife, no more important home than the country home, and it is of national importance to do the best we can for both.
Side 67 - ... culturally determined perception, which makes them see elsewhere the very features of modernity to which they close their eyes in their own countries. I take the liberty of inserting here an anecdote. In lecturing on the nature of the stereotype, I have frequently quoted the following excerpt from a letter of Abigail Adams, the wife of the second President of the United States; she wrote during a European journey on November 21, 1786: The accounts you gave me of the singing of your birds and...
Side 94 - This is due partly to the fact that the starch is not yet converted into sugar, and partly to the coarse and hard condition of the cellulose. When fruits are perfectly developed and properly matured, practically all the starch is converted into sugar, and the cellulose is soft and fine. We know that unripe fruit is not wholesome. It digests slowly, often ferments in the stomach, and is the cause of painful disorders.
Side 25 - They have created a totally new agriculture. They smile when we boast about the rotation system having permitted us to take from the field one crop every year, or four crops each three years, because their ambition is to have six and nine crops from the very same plot of land during the twelve months. They do not understand our talk about good and bad soils, because they make the soil themselves, and make it in such quantities as to be compelled yearly to sell some of it; otherwise it would raise...
Side 24 - All these are not fancy dreams, but mere realities ; nothing but modest conclusions from what we see round about us, without any allusion to the agriculture of the future. If we want, however, to know what agriculture can be, and what can be grown on a given amount of soil, we must apply for information to the market-gardening culture in this country, in the neighbourhoods of Paris, Amiens, and other large cities, and in Holland.
Side 24 - About the middle of the last century, a lighthouse, known as the Dunston Pillar, was built on the Lincoln Heath in Lincolnshire, England. It was erected to guide travelers over a trackless, barren waste, a very desert, almost in the heart of England ; and long it served its useful purpose. The pillar, no longer a lighthouse, now stands in the midst of a fertile and rich farming region, where all the land is in high cultivation. For twenty-five years no barren heath has been visible, even from its...
Side 134 - All coarse stones, quitch-grass, or other rubbish, should be raked ofT, so as to have the land in the finest condition possible. If the land is full of weeds, it would be well to manure heavily and plant one year with crops that would be well cultivated, or to plough it frequently during one season, so that it may be as clean as possible when the time comes for sowing. If there is anything that tries one's patience, it is attempting to grow seedlings in a soil that is already full of weed seed. The...
Side 94 - Chemistry and physiology have taught us that, when these " fruity acids," oils, and ethers are taken into the body, they undergo oxidation, which process tends to lower the temperature of the blood, or at least to modify our temperature sensations, and thus correct, or allay, any slight feverisbness that may exist.
Side 94 - ... in a healthy condition. The free acids of fruits, especially citric and malic, are highly antiseptic bodies, and tend to prevent disease germs from finding a lodgment and developing in the body. In our climate, subject as we often are to rapid changes and extremes of temperature, the physical system is naturally more or less debilitated. In this condition we are predisposed to malaria and other troubles.
Side 90 - Foods are not medicines. A medicine is something which is taken into the body to produce a certain specific and unusual effect, the object being to counteract some injurious tendency, or correct some abnormal condition.