Annual Report of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture, Volume 33, Part 1883The Board, 1884 |
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Page 246 - O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, An
Page 618 - Children were born, of apparent vigor and promise, but these, one by one, sank into the arms of the dreamless twin brother of sleep, under the touch of diphtheria, croup, and pneumonia. The mother went into a decline, and died of consumption before her fiftieth birthday ; and the father, tortured and crippled by rheumatism, childless and solitary in that beautiful home which elicits the praises of every passer-by, waits and hopes for the dawning of that day which shall give him back wife and children,...
Page 618 - One of the brothers built his house in an open and sunny spot, where the soil and subsoil were dry ; shade trees and embowering plants had a hard time of it, but the cellar was dry enough for a powder magazine ; the house in all its parts was free from every trace of dampness and mould ; there was a crisp and elastic feel in the air of the dwelling.
Page 616 - ... quality of the soil prevents all deep drainage. The deeper soil is water-soaked in spring and early summer, and at other times when heavy rains fall. Gate and fence posts are heaved by the frost, winter wheat and clover are half uprooted by the same force. Work is late in the spring, because the soil is cold and wet. Crops are slow to start and slower to ripen. The farmer "has a hard row to hoe." A hopeful and cheerful spirit is conspicuously wanting, because he has generally poor success with...
Page 613 - ... as if we labored and rested, waked and slept in a perpetual drizzle of a cold rain. It may seem a small force at first, but its persistent, untiring, and relentless pull tells upon the strongest at last, like the invisible fingers of gravity, which finally drags down all to a common level, whether towering oak or cloud-piercing mountain.
Page 614 - Chaumont, in his lectures on State Medicine (1875), says, — " It is generally admitted that a persistently low groundwater, say fifteen feet or more down, is healthy ; that a persistently high ground-water, less than five feet from the surface, is unhealthy ; and that a fluctuating level, especially if the changes are sudden and violent, is very unhealthy.
Page 614 - But all this is changed in the presence of water in these materials. If the walls of the house are wet, the passage of air is prevented. I wet this half inch of plaster, and you see I cannot force the air through it. In the same way, if the soil is drenched with water the passage of air is prevented. I have here a bottle filled with soil saturated with water, and you see how the passage of air is prevented — that the air will pass through fourteen inches of dry soil easier than through four inches...
Page 197 - Princes or kings may flourish or may fade, A breath can make them as a breath has made ; But a bold yeomanry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 613 - There are certain other conditions secured by drainage of the soil which are essential to the health of the inhabitants, and one of these is aeration of the soil, or the passage of air through the pores of the soil. The air is entirely excluded from water-soaked soil ; the entrance of...
Page 613 - ... can readily blow air through it. Here is a roll of mortar, such as masons use in plastering walls, and you see I can, with the slightest effort, blow air through six inches of dry plaster. Not only can the air pass through these bodies, but it does pass under natural conditions, and plastered walls breathe. In plastered rooms where the walls have been left undisturbed for some time you see the position of every beam and joist, and even the lath, by the lighter color of the wall. The part of the...