The Missouri Yearbook of Agriculture: Annual Report, Volume 2The Board, 1867 - Agriculture |
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... miles above St. Paul , on an Indian reservation , where considerable grain was being raised , is the most northern limit of any known destruction from them at that visitation . They extended down to or some distance below St. Paul . On ...
... miles above St. Paul , on an Indian reservation , where considerable grain was being raised , is the most northern limit of any known destruction from them at that visitation . They extended down to or some distance below St. Paul . On ...
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... miles further south they remained longer , and their destruction was of a more permanent character . Some damage was also done to the corn . Here they commenced to deposit their eggs . Wheat and rye . was seriously , but not fatally ...
... miles further south they remained longer , and their destruction was of a more permanent character . Some damage was also done to the corn . Here they commenced to deposit their eggs . Wheat and rye . was seriously , but not fatally ...
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... miles west of St. Joseph , Mo. It is said that they will average one hundred to every square foot of surface . " ( From the Boston Cultivator , Sept. 22 , 1866. ) The following is from the Nebraska correspondent of the Rock Island Union ...
... miles west of St. Joseph , Mo. It is said that they will average one hundred to every square foot of surface . " ( From the Boston Cultivator , Sept. 22 , 1866. ) The following is from the Nebraska correspondent of the Rock Island Union ...
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... as follows of the grasshopper invasion : In Brown county they covered a track twelve miles in width , and consumed pretty much every- thing green . Trees were stripped of their leaves , CORRESPONDING SECRETARY'S REPORT . 13.
... as follows of the grasshopper invasion : In Brown county they covered a track twelve miles in width , and consumed pretty much every- thing green . Trees were stripped of their leaves , CORRESPONDING SECRETARY'S REPORT . 13.
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... miles above Fort Kearney . The Marysville Enterprise says of the grasshoppers in that section : " They alighted upon fields , gardens , fruit - trees , and everything green or eatable , and like a march of two hundred and fifty army ...
... miles above Fort Kearney . The Marysville Enterprise says of the grasshoppers in that section : " They alighted upon fields , gardens , fruit - trees , and everything green or eatable , and like a march of two hundred and fifty army ...
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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.