The Missouri Yearbook of Agriculture: Annual Report, Volume 2The Board, 1867 - Agriculture |
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... plants , climate , density of the air , temperature , moisture , etc. , are very dif- ferent from those of its native ... plant , otherwise apparently healthy , becomes unable to reproduce its species . For example , vari- ous kinds of ...
... plants , climate , density of the air , temperature , moisture , etc. , are very dif- ferent from those of its native ... plant , otherwise apparently healthy , becomes unable to reproduce its species . For example , vari- ous kinds of ...
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... plant dwarf pear trees in preference to standards . Quince roots are more fibrous , and do not reach as far for ... planting . Another important matter is to select such varieties of fruit as are known to be adapted to the locality ...
... plant dwarf pear trees in preference to standards . Quince roots are more fibrous , and do not reach as far for ... planting . Another important matter is to select such varieties of fruit as are known to be adapted to the locality ...
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... plants per year . It is contemplated to build a large wine cellar , probably next summer . The operations of this company , if carried out as designed , are likely to exert an important influence on the progress of grape culture in the ...
... plants per year . It is contemplated to build a large wine cellar , probably next summer . The operations of this company , if carried out as designed , are likely to exert an important influence on the progress of grape culture in the ...
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... plant and cultivate an experimental vineyard , where all new and promising varieties of grapes may be tested ; an institution which will be of incalculable benefit to the state at large as well as to ourselves . 5th . To lay out a ...
... plant and cultivate an experimental vineyard , where all new and promising varieties of grapes may be tested ; an institution which will be of incalculable benefit to the state at large as well as to ourselves . 5th . To lay out a ...
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... plant has a peren- nial root and a twining stem , which dies down to the ground every year , but remains alive below ... plants from the pistillate or female ones , though sometimes the pistillate plants , ac- cording to the ...
... plant has a peren- nial root and a twining stem , which dies down to the ground every year , but remains alive below ... plants from the pistillate or female ones , though sometimes the pistillate plants , ac- cording to the ...
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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.