Annual Report of the Secretary of the Connecticut Board of Agriculture, Volume 21Press of Case, Lockwood and Company, 1887 Report for 1898 has Appendix: Condensed index of reports of Connecticut Board of Agriculture, 1866-1898. |
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Page 341 - Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem : To spare thee now is past my power, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie lark, companion meet, Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet ! Wi' speckled breast, When upward-springing, blithe, to greet The purpling east.
Page 15 - ... at his request a sealed glass jar or bottle, containing not less than one pound of the fertilizer, accompanied by an affidavit that it is a fair average sample thereof.
Page 15 - Massachusetts, any pulverized leather, raw, steamed, roasted, or in any form as a fertilizer, or as an ingredient of any fertilizer or manure, without an explicit printed certificate of the fact, said certificate to be conspicuously affixed to every package of such fertilizer or manure and to accompany or go with every parcel or lot of the same.
Page 14 - ... a plainly printed statement clearly and truly certifying the number of net pounds in the...
Page 162 - Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science, 1887, pp. 48-50, Prof. EW Hilgard states his objections to "the subsidence method or 'beaker elutriation,' " and explains the reasons which formerly induced him
Page 305 - Tis a rough land of earth, and stone, and tree, Where breathes no castled lord or cabined slave ; Wlicre thoughts, and tongues, and hands are bold and free. And friends will find a welcome, foes a grave ; And where none kneel, save when to heaven they pray. Nor even then, unless in their own way. Theirs is a pure republic, wild, yet strong, A "fierce democracie...
Page 334 - I am going to yield thee up ? To Europeans, who will tie thee close, — who will beat thee, — who will render thee miserable. Return with me, my beauty, my jewel, and rejoice the hearts, of my children.
Page 15 - ... provided, that whenever the manufacturer or importer shall have paid the fee herein required for any person acting as agent or seller for such manufacturer or importer, such agent or seller shall not be required to pay the fee named in this section ; and on receipt of said analysis fees...
Page 16 - Said director is hereby authorized in person or by deputy to take a sample, not exceeding two pounds in weight, for analysis, from any lot or package of fertilizer or...
Page 306 - View them near At home, where all their worth and pride is placed; And there their hospitable fires burn clear, And there the lowliest farmhouse hearth is graced With manly hearts, in piety sincere, Faithful in love, in honor stern and chaste, In friendship warm and true, in danger brave, Beloved in life, and sainted in the grave.