The Missouri Yearbook of Agriculture: Annual Report, Volume 2The Board, 1867 - Agriculture |
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... adapted , we have given an illustrated article , and indicated the source from whence more light may be obtained by those seeking it . One of the crops too much neglected in our state , and most seriously so , is grass . With this view ...
... adapted , we have given an illustrated article , and indicated the source from whence more light may be obtained by those seeking it . One of the crops too much neglected in our state , and most seriously so , is grass . With this view ...
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... adapted to their taste , and appetites were by no means wanting , and seemed to grow with their growth , till wheat , rye , corn , potatoes and every vegetable product , native or cultivated , disappeared before them . Even the leaves ...
... adapted to their taste , and appetites were by no means wanting , and seemed to grow with their growth , till wheat , rye , corn , potatoes and every vegetable product , native or cultivated , disappeared before them . Even the leaves ...
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... adapted to its wants , requires thorough cultivation , and a degree of skill and care in its treatment that nine - tenths of the planters will not give it . Even where all the circumstances seem to be favorable , it has often proved ...
... adapted to its wants , requires thorough cultivation , and a degree of skill and care in its treatment that nine - tenths of the planters will not give it . Even where all the circumstances seem to be favorable , it has often proved ...
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... adapted to the crop , and that when it receives the attention which it deserves , it will become one of our staple productions . It is believed that sorghum ought to be more largely cultivated in our state , and that wooden crushers ...
... adapted to the crop , and that when it receives the attention which it deserves , it will become one of our staple productions . It is believed that sorghum ought to be more largely cultivated in our state , and that wooden crushers ...
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... adapted to the raising of grain ; timber along the banks of streams : goed stone for building ; not much coal . Face of the country uneven and broken , with good soil in the valleys , well timbered and good water . Face of the country ...
... adapted to the raising of grain ; timber along the banks of streams : goed stone for building ; not much coal . Face of the country uneven and broken , with good soil in the valleys , well timbered and good water . Face of the country ...
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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 17 - 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 454 - 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 214 - On motion, the board then proceeded to the election of officers for the ensuing year, which resulted as follows: Henry T.
Page 16 - 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 454 - 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 454 - 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 434 - By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 16 - 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 429 - 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 16 - 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.