Improvements in Agriculture, Arts, &c. of the United StatesGreeley & McElrath, 1843 - 80 Seiten |
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Improvements in Agriculture, Arts, &C of the United States (Classic Reprint) Henry L. Ellsworth Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2017 |
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Seite 37 - He, therefore, who is now against domestic manufacture, must be for reducing us either to dependence on that foreign nation, or to be clothed in skins, and to live like wild beasts in dens and caverns. I am not one of these. Experience has taught me that manufactures are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort...
Seite 37 - Shall we make our own comforts, or go without them, at the will of a foreign nation? He, therefore, who is now against domestic manufacture, must be for reducing us either to dependence on that foreign nation, or to be clothed in skins, and to live like wild beasts in dens and caverns. I am not one of these; experience has taught me that manufactures are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort...
Seite 37 - In short, sir, we have been too long subject to the policy of the British merchants. It is time that we should become a little more Americanized; and, instead of feeding the paupers and laborers of England, feed our own; or else, in a short time, by continuing our present policy, we shall all be rendered paupers ourselves.
Seite 1 - The receipts of the office for 1842 amount to $35,790 96, from which $8,068 95 may be deducted repaid on applications withdrawn. The ordinary expenses of the Patent Office for the past year, including payments for the library and for agricultural statistics, have been .$22,154 48, leaving a net balance of $5,264 20, to be credited to the patent fund.
Seite 37 - Except for cotton he has neither a foreign nor a home market. Does not this clearly prove, when there is no market either at home or abroad, that there is too much labor employed in agriculture, and that the channels of labor should be multiplied;' Common sense points out at once the remedy.
Seite 37 - When our manufactures are grown to a certain perfection, as they soon will under the fostering care of Government, we will no longer experience these evils. The farmer will find a ready market for his surplus produce ; and, what is almost of equal consequence, a certain and cheap supply of all his wants.
Seite 1 - That it shall be the duty of the Commissioner to cause to be classified and arranged, in such rooms or galleries as may be provided for that purpose, in suitable cases, when necessary for their preservation, and in such manner as shall be conducive to a beneficial and favorable display thereof...
Seite 9 - It is the greatest possible mistake to suppose that the temporary diminution of fertility in a soil is owing to the loss of humus ; it is the mere consequence of the exhaustion of the alkalies.
Seite 9 - Ibs. of alkalies in leaves, grain, and straw; it became unfruitful therefore, because it was deprived of every particle of alkali, which had been reduced to a soluble state, and...
Seite 56 - ... course of slate ; this will intercept the dampness so often rising in the walls of brick houses. The wall is laid by placing the brick lengthwise, thus making the wall one foot thick. Ordinary clay, such as is used for clay mortar, will suffice, though a weak mortar of sand and lime, when these articles are cheap, is recommended as affording a more adhesive material for the plaster.