Report, Band 2New Hampshire Department of Agriculture, 1872 |
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Seite 379 - Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree ; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping.* My father tauld me sae forty years sin', but I ne'er fand time to mind him.
Seite 298 - Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity : children love them ; quiet, tender, contented ordinary people love them as they grow ; luxurious and disorderly people rejoice in them gathered : They are the cottager's treasure ; and in the crowded town, mark, as with a little broken fragment of rainbow, the windows of the workers in whose heart rests the covenant of peace.
Seite 481 - Judge, have the same power to administer oaths or affirmations required, or authorized to be administered by the provisions of this act, or the act to which this is a supplement...
Seite 483 - The Secretary shall receive, as a compensation for his services, a salary of one thousand dollars per annum, to be paid quarterly from the State treasury, in the same manner as is provided by law for the payment of the salaries of State officers. Sec. 12. The sum of twelve hundred dollars per annum...
Seite 27 - Nothing is more certain than that continual cropping without manure, deprives the soil of its fertility. It is equally certain that fertility may be preserved or restored, by giving to the earth animal or vegetable manure equivalent to the matter taken from it; and that a perpetual fertility is not, in itself, incompatible with an uninterrupted succession of crops. The Chinese, it is said, smile at the idea, that land needs rest, as if like animals it had a sense of fatigue.
Seite 483 - State, to farmers and others who will agree to cultivate them properly and return to the secretary's office a reasonable proportion of the products thereof, with a statement of the mode of cultivation, and such other information as may be necessary to ascertain their value for cultivation in the State.
Seite 483 - ... and trees, as it may be in his power to procure from the general government and other sources, as may be adapted to our climate and soils. He shall also encourage the importation of improved breeds of horses, cattle, sheep, hogs and other live stock, and the invention and improvement of...
Seite 457 - ... by the lapse of years, and which will have its interpreter on every hillside and in every valley, where rural taste and refinement are found.
Seite 292 - As it has been the inclination of kings, and the choice of philosophers, so it has been the common favourite of public and private men ; a pleasure of the greatest, and the care of the meanest ; and indeed an employment and a possession, for which no man is too high nor too low.
Seite 435 - Switzerland, including the present site of the Alps, whose highest summits then only reached above its surface, constituting a small archipelago of a few distant islands in the great expanse of the Tertiary sea.