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acres agricultural amount animals annual average bark Barley breed bushels Catawba cattle cent cheese cinchona climate color corn Cotswold cotton cows crop cultivation culture district ending June 30 England Esox Estimates of appropriations farm farmers favorable feet fishes fleece fruit Georgia Gourami grain grapes grass ground growing grown growth hackmatack Haddonfield heat hogs horse hundred imported improved inches increase insects June 30 Kelley's island labor lake Lake Ontario land larvæ less Letter machine manufacture manure Merinoes miles milk nearly North Carolina Ohio planter plants plough portion potatoes pounds produced pruning quantity quinine relative river road season Secretary Secretary of War seed sheep shoots short-horns soil southern species stone summer surface temperature timber tion trees United varieties vines weight wheat wheel wine winter wood wool yield York
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Side 517 - In proportion as nations advance in population and other circumstances of maturity this truth becomes more apparent, and renders the cultivation of soil more and more an object of public patronage. Institutions for promoting it grow up supported by the public purse, and to what object can it be dedicated with greater propriety? Among the means which have been employed to this end, none have been attended with greater success than the establishment of boards composed of proper characters, charged...
Side 507 - 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 them both!
Side 516 - It will not be doubted that with reference either to individual or national welfare agriculture is of primary importance. In proportion as nations advance in population and other circumstances of maturity this truth becomes more apparent, and renders the cultivation of the soil more and more an object of public patronage. Institutions for promoting it grow up, supported by the public purse; and to what object can it be dedicated with greater propriety...
Side 532 - HOLLAND. A COUNTRY that draws fifty foot of water, In which men live as in the hold of Nature, And when the sea does in upon them break, And drowns a province, does but spring a leak...
Side 447 - The object is to give to children resources that will endure as long as life endures — habits that time will ameliorate, not destroy, — occupations that will render sickness tolerable, solitude pleasant, age venerable, life more dignified and useful, and therefore death less terrible...
Side 546 - ... made quite dry, and a covering impenetrable to rain, must then be placed over it, to preserve it in that dry state ; that the thickness of a road should only be regulated by the quantity of material necessary to form such impervious covering, and never by any reference to its own power of carrying weight.
Side 549 - All the irregularities of the upper part of the said pavement are to be broken off by the hammer, and all the interstices to be filled with stone chips firmly wedged or packed by hand with a light hammer, so that when the whole pavement is finished there shall be a convexity of four inches in the breadth of fifteen feet from the centre.
Side 526 - Patents, appropriated, in 1839, $1,000 for the ''collection of agricultural statistics, investigations for promoting agriculture and rural economy, and the procurement of cuttings and seeds for gratuitous distribution among the farmers.
Side 517 - Legislative aid and protection, and the encouragement due to agriculture by the creation of Boards, (composed of intelligent individuals,) to patronize this primary pursuit of society, are subjects which will readily engage our most serious attention.
Side 546 - ... that it is the native soil which really supports the weight of traffic : that while it is preserved in a dry state, it will carry any weight without sinking, and that it does in fact carry the road and...