Annual Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Minnesota, Issues 41-52Pioneer Press Company, 1896 |
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Page 353 - Dobson presented for its first reading: AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED: "AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR THE LAYING OF WATER MAINS UPON THE PETITION OF PROPERTY OWNERS TO BE BENEFITED, CREATING OF ASSESSMENT DISTRICTS AND THE LEVYING OF TAXES TO COLLECT THE COST THEREOF.
Page 357 - No person shall within this State manufacture for sale, have in his possession with intent to sell, offer or expose for sale, or sell as lard, any substance not the legitimate and exclusive product of the fat of the hog.
Page 126 - What I claim, and desire to secure by letters patent of the United States, is — The...
Page 180 - It is by the means of these that it teases us in the heat of summer, when it alights on the hand or face to sip the perspiration that exudes from and is condensed upon the skin.
Page 201 - ... crawl under one's clothes, where they even remain and bite in the night. The children in the house were sickly and worn by their unceasing torments; and the shaggy Newfoundland dogs whose thick coats would seem to be proof against their bites ran from their shelter beneath the bench and dashed into the river, their only retreat. In cloudy weather, unlike the mosquito, the black fly disappears, only flying when the sun shines. The bite of the black fly is often severe, the creature leaving a large...
Page 355 - The Common Council shall thereupon, after proper investigation, whether from a consideration of such report or from other sources, adjudge and determine what applicants may be entitled to obtain a license...
Page 249 - smell to the grass," as they go, lest one should be lying in wait for them. If they observe one, they gallop back, or take some other direction. As they can not, like the horses, take refuge in the water, they have recourse to a rut, or dry, dusty road, or...
Page 143 - While crowding its way out the antennae and four front legs are held in much the same position as within the egg, the hind legs being generally stretched. But the members bend in every conceivable way, and where several are endeavoring to work through any particular passage, the amount of squeezing and crowding they will endure is something remarkable. Yet if by chance the protecting pellicle is worked off before issuing from the ground, the animal loses all power of further forcing its way out....
Page 171 - ... the independent states infinitely worse. As a result of this conflict between the majorities in the Muslim and non-Muslim Zones they will have lost what sympathy and goodwill they should have and their position will have become far worse than what it is today. For the minorities it will veritably be a case of jumping from the frying pan into the fire.
Page 141 - ... far down as the two inner rows, and for the very same reason the upper or head ends of the outer rows are necessarily bent to the same extent over the inner rows, the eggs when laid being somewhat soft and plastic. There is, consequently, an irregular channel along the top of the mass (PI.