The Missouri Yearbook of Agriculture: Annual Report, Volume 2The Board, 1867 - Agriculture |
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... abundant and profitable employment for their numerous progeny , while they did their country some service . Thus the grasshoppers gradually wasted away between their enemies , assisted by an occa- sional autumnal frost , which sometimes ...
... abundant and profitable employment for their numerous progeny , while they did their country some service . Thus the grasshoppers gradually wasted away between their enemies , assisted by an occa- sional autumnal frost , which sometimes ...
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... abundance , chiefly in all the four wings being very much longer , so that , instead of flying only a few yards at a stretch , it can with ease fly a great distance . In a female specimen of the former , which I have measured , the ...
... abundance , chiefly in all the four wings being very much longer , so that , instead of flying only a few yards at a stretch , it can with ease fly a great distance . In a female specimen of the former , which I have measured , the ...
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... abundant in 1864 in Colorado , and heard that it was by far the most troublesome and pre- valent grasshopper there , indicates that it must have traveled from Colorado to Kansas and Nebraska in 1866 , being probably assisted in passing ...
... abundant in 1864 in Colorado , and heard that it was by far the most troublesome and pre- valent grasshopper there , indicates that it must have traveled from Colorado to Kansas and Nebraska in 1866 , being probably assisted in passing ...
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... abundant water power ; in others , immense coal beds . Steam power has been found quite as economical for manufacturing , and in some cases more so , than water power . Farmers will be largely benefited by the more general introduction ...
... abundant water power ; in others , immense coal beds . Steam power has been found quite as economical for manufacturing , and in some cases more so , than water power . Farmers will be largely benefited by the more general introduction ...
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... abundant .. able ; dry . Boone inferior ; pears and peaches , half crop . Greene .. Fruit abundant ; apples , ex - Not much cultivated .. tremely fine . Gentry Iron . Lawrence Wet Warm Apples , half crop ; too cold for Just being ...
... abundant .. able ; dry . Boone inferior ; pears and peaches , half crop . Greene .. Fruit abundant ; apples , ex - Not much cultivated .. tremely fine . Gentry Iron . Lawrence Wet Warm Apples , half crop ; too cold for Just being ...
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abundant adapted agricultural apple tree awarded beautiful Boone county breed bushels bushels per acre Callaway county calyx Catawba cattle cent Chester white Clark county coal committee corn crop cultivated diploma and $10 dollars early exhibited fair farm farmers favorable feet fruit grape grass ground grow growers grown hackberry Henry Michel hickory hogs honey locust hops horses horticultural Howard county hundred Illinois improved inches iron L. D. Morse labor land limestone Louis county Macon county manufactured mare Messrs miles mills Mississippi Missouri mules oats orchard Osage orange peaches pears pippin plant plow potatoes pounds prairie produce quantity railroad raised rich river season second premium sheep society soil sorghum spring streams sugar summer sweet thousand timber tion tobacco varieties vines vineyard wheat wild wine winesap winter wool
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Page 15 - A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 452 - Fruits that shall swell in sunny June, And redden in the August noon, And drop, when gentle airs come by, That fan the blue September sky, While children come, with cries of glee, And seek them where the fragrant grass Betrays their bed to those who pass, At the foot of the apple tree.
Page 212 - On motion, the board then proceeded to the election of officers for the ensuing year, which resulted as follows: Henry T.
Page 14 - Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
Page 452 - Winds, and our flag of stripe and star Shall bear to coasts that lie afar, Where men shall wonder at the view, And ask in what fair groves they grew...
Page 452 - What plant we in this apple-tree? Sweets for a hundred flowery springs To load the May-wind's restless wings, When, from the orchard row, he pours Its fragrance through our open doors; • A world of blossoms for the bee, Flowers for the sick girl's silent room, For the glad infant sprigs of bloom, We plant with the apple-tree.
Page 432 - By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 14 - They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall; they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
Page 427 - Good bread and good drink, a good fire in the hall, Brawn, pudding, and souse, and good mustard withal. Beef, mutton, and pork, shred pies of the best, Pig, veal, goose, and capon, and turkey well drest, Cheese, apples, and nuts, jolly Carols to hear, As then in the country, is counted good cheer.
Page 14 - Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand ; a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.