Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, Issue 41Reports for 1862-66 include reports of the Ohio Pomological Society. |
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66 Best amount animal annual apples average awarded beautiful berries Best pair better blackberry Board of Agriculture breeds Bros bushels bushels per acre canals cattle cent Chillicothe Columbus committee corn crop cultivation Dayton Delaware disease dollars early Elyria entries exhibition experience Fair grounds farm farmers feet fertilizers fruit glanders grain grapes green grower growing grown hogs horses Horticultural Society improvement inches insects interest June June 16 June 25 kernels labor land manure Marion medium meeting Millersburg Muriate of potash Name Ohio State Board orchard panicles Paris green Pataskala peaches pears plants plots potash pounds premium President Prof raspberries Reynoldsburg ripening Rust's Sandusky season Secretary seed seedling sheep sired soil South Bend Station straw strawberries trees Upper Sandusky Van Wert varieties vines Westerville wheat White winter Wyandot yield
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Page 24 - May 1, 1S85, and to issue its bonds therefor, in such denominations as it may deem best, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding six per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, and...
Page 25 - ... as it may deem best, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding six per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually, and secure the payment of the same by a mortgage of its real estate, with the improvements thereon.
Page 382 - ... with their correlatives freedom of choice and responsibility — man being all this, it is at once obvious that the principal part of his being is his mental power. In Nature there is nothing great but Man, In Man there is nothing great but Mind.
Page 394 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
Page 161 - Copper mixture of Gironde, Bordeaux mixture. — Original formula. — Dissolve 16 pounds of sulphate of copper in 22 gallons of water ; in another vessel slake 30 pounds of lime in 6 gallons of water. When the latter mixture has cooled it is slowly poured into the copper solution, care being taken to mix the fluids thoroughly by constant stirring. It is well to have this compound prepared some days before it is required for use.
Page 41 - And, whatever else may be undervalued or overlooked, let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man.
Page 325 - He manages to collect round him all the conveniences and elegancies of polite life and to banish its restraints. His country-seat abounds with every requisite either for studious retirement, tasteful gratification, or rural exercise. Books, paintings, music, horses, dogs, and sporting implements of all kinds are at hand. He puts no constraint either upon his guests or himself, but in the true spirit of hospitality provides the means of enjoyment, and leaves every one to partake according to his inclination.
Page 406 - Between the Home set up in Eden, and the Home before us in Eternity, stand the Homes of Earth in a long succession. It is therefore important that our Homes should be brought up to the standard in harmony with their origin and destiny. Here are "Empire's primal Springs;" here are the Church and State in embryo; here all improvements and reforms must rise.
Page 142 - West soon came to us for membership, and they asked us to extend our territorial limits to embrace all of the horticultural interests of the continent, from ocean to ocean. After much deliberation, this was done at our large meeting in New Orleans, so that we are now in name, as we had been for years before in membership and in the spirit of our work, AN AMERICAN SOCIETY.
Page 438 - WE wait beneath the furnace-blast The pangs of transformation ; Not painlessly doth God recast And mould anew the nation. Hot burns the fire Where wrongs expire ; Nor spares the hand That from the land Uproots the ancient evil.