Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents, Part 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1850 |
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Page 270 - ... yet it will not suffer by standing longer in the field. From this stage of the crop until it is in the house, it is a source of great solicitude and vexation to the planter. He is fearful of storms, of frost, and worms, his worst enemy — they come in crowds — "their name is Legion" — and the "suckers" are to be pulled off, and the "ground leaves
Page 17 - agricultural produce and practice" of Belgium, Mr. McCulloch remarks: "Corn (wheat), flax, hemp, and timber constitute the most important materials of the agricultural wealth of Belgium. The soil artificially enriched, produces commonly more than double the quantity of corn required for the consumption of its inhabitants, which is computed at six millions of hectolitres (each two and threequarter bushels) per annum.
Page 114 - pedes as well as varieties cultivated under the general name of cow-pea; ranging in size from that of a grain of wheat, to that of the smaller varieties of snapbeans. In color they vary still more ; snow-white ; white with black, red or yellow eyes ; jet-black ; purplish-red ; yellow ; speckled, like the early valentine bean ; greenish-gray, like the gray field pea (pisuni) of England, &c.
Page 365 - ... believing they would bear civilization, and perhaps when perfected a new variety of sweet potato of great value would be added to our products. I regret much my negligence in this matter. The tip-sne-ah, or wild prairie turnip, grows on the high native prairies, one or two together, in size from a small hen's egg to that of a goose egg, and of the same form. They have a thick black or brown bark, but are nearly pure white inside, with very little moisture. They grow about six or eight inches...
Page 268 - ... hand. Roll with a handroller or tramp it with the feet. If the bed be sown early, it ought to be covered with brush free from leaves ; but it is not necessary to cover them after the middle of March. Tobacco beds may be sown at any time during winter if the ground 'be not too wet or frozen.
Page 176 - Yet are these nursing mothers of the old thirteen thus flatteringly noticed by one of the "commercial writers," and which is copied into Macgregor's work on this country ! " In all the old wheat districts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, the land is all so completely exhausted by continued cropping, that it must be abandoned for years, until restored to vigor by the recuperative powers of nature, or transferred to another population better qualified to recover it by art and industry." Not a single...
Page 321 - ... (Farmers' Mag. and Mr. Aiton.) The qualities of a dairy cow are of still greater importance than her shape. Firmness and docility of temper greatly enhance the value of a milch cow ; one that is quiet and contented feeds at her ease, does not break over fences, or injure other cattle, so much as those that are of a turbulent cast. To render them docile, they ought to be gently treated, frequently handled when young, and never hunted with dogs, beat or frightened. A moderate degree of hardiness,...
Page 352 - dry prairies" are generally very similar in appearance, so far as surface is concerned. Small portions of "level prairie" are found everywhere, but to constitute dry prairie it must be "rolling." Between the waves on this great ocean of God's own beautiful sod are the " sloughs," the terror of the early emigrant, and the most valued possession of his successor ; as often affording water, and always an unfailing and most luxuriant natural meadow. These sloughs are the drains of the dry prairie. They...
Page 7 - Of these improved lands, it is confidently believed that at least four-fifths are now suffering deterioration in a greater or less degree. " The fertility of some, particularly in the planting States, is passing rapidly away ; in others, the progress of exhaustion is so slow as hardly to be observed by the cultivators themselves. To keep within the truth, the annual income from the soil may be said to be diminished ten cents an acre on one hundred million acres, or four-fifths of the whole. " This...
Page 302 - ... case, called the Foul Burn, the term burn being the Scottish name for a small stream or brook. Here it passes along, in an open brook, among some flat lands, which by proper arrangements it is made to overflow. I should state that before it reaches the places where it is thus diffused, it is received in tanks, where the more solid parts are deposited. It does not require any extraordinary acuteness of...