Transactions of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Volumen2Beriah Brown, State Printer, 1853 Published with vol. 21-25: Transactions of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, vol. 13-17, and Annual report of the Wisconsin Dairymen's Association, no. 11-15; with vol. 22-25: Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Wisconsin, no. 1-4. |
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Página 376 - ... from the clutches of the publicans, and the embraces of their pot companions, who followed them to the water's edge with many a hug, a kiss on each cheek, and a maudlin benediction in Canadian French. It was about the 12th of August that they left Mackinaw, and pursued the usual route by Green Bay, Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, to Prairie du Chien, and thence down the Mississippi to St. Louis, where they landed on the third of September.
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Página 186 - Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rye in their place? For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
Página 208 - The capital employed in agriculture, therefore, not only puts into motion a greater quantity of productive labor than any equal capital employed in manufactures, but in proportion too to the quantity of productive labor which it employs, it. adds a much greater value to the annual produce of the land and labor of the country, to the real wealth and revenue of its inhabitants.
Página 376 - One hundred and ten plants are enumerated, many of them from within the limits of this State ; and three are indicated as new species. . In 1823, Major LONG, with a party of scientific gentlemen, under the direction of the Secretary of War, traversed the North West Territory (as Wisconsin was then called) ; but unfortunately the botanist was detained, and did not join the expedition. We have, consequently, only an account of a few plants gathered by the late lamented THOMAS...
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Página 219 - ... which, as often as opportunity or other circumstances will allow, it will be profitable to change them from one pasture to another, beginning with the most inferior grass, and gradually removing them into the best. By this expedient, as cattle delight in variety, they will cull the uppermost or choicest part of the grass, and by filling themselves quickly, as well as by lying down much, they will rapidly advance towards a proper state of fatness ; while the grass, which is thus left, may be fed...