The Farmer's Every-day Book: Or, Sketches of Social Life in the Country: with the Popular Elements of Practical and Theoretical Agriculture, and Twelve Hundred Laconics and Apothegms Relating to Ethics, Religion, and General Literature; Also Five Hundred Receipts on Hygeian, Domestic, and Rural Economy |
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... land into productive soils ; how another gets a hundred bushels of corn and forty bushels of wheat from the acre ; -and how another causes his meadows to produce him an income equal to the interest of five hundred dollars per acre . Or ...
... land into productive soils ; how another gets a hundred bushels of corn and forty bushels of wheat from the acre ; -and how another causes his meadows to produce him an income equal to the interest of five hundred dollars per acre . Or ...
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... land will probably be required in the culture of each . He accordingly measures off his land ; but , unfortunately , he plants his potatoes upon the plat best suited to the growth of wheat , and sows his wheat on that which would answer ...
... land will probably be required in the culture of each . He accordingly measures off his land ; but , unfortunately , he plants his potatoes upon the plat best suited to the growth of wheat , and sows his wheat on that which would answer ...
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... lands . He promptly does so ; but he applies the fertilizing agents designed for his wheat to the growth of his potatoes ; and those adapted to their production are used on his wheat land . By this means , his first mistake is made ad ...
... lands . He promptly does so ; but he applies the fertilizing agents designed for his wheat to the growth of his potatoes ; and those adapted to their production are used on his wheat land . By this means , his first mistake is made ad ...
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... land . And , among the latter , the instincts of hunger are nearly innumerable . The noble horse and the enduring ox are disposed to feed on the verdant grass . Grain and insects are particularly suited to the tenants of the poultry ...
... land . And , among the latter , the instincts of hunger are nearly innumerable . The noble horse and the enduring ox are disposed to feed on the verdant grass . Grain and insects are particularly suited to the tenants of the poultry ...
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... land - for instance , a crop of wheat , when the land is only in a condition to produce potatoes , or Indian corn , or buckwheat , From these palpable cases , and others that might be given , it is apparent that a farmer should be ...
... land - for instance , a crop of wheat , when the land is only in a condition to produce potatoes , or Indian corn , or buckwheat , From these palpable cases , and others that might be given , it is apparent that a farmer should be ...
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Page 385 - THESE, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of Thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, Thy tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Page 97 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Page 303 - No more to sigh or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear ; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere. Compared with this, how poor Religion's pride, In all the pomp of method, and of art, When men display to congregations wide Devotion's every grace, except the heart...
Page 54 - She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Page 48 - Unmixed with drops of bitter, which neglect Or temper sheds into thy crystal cup ; Thou art the nurse of virtue. In thine arms She smiles, appearing, as in truth she is, Heaven-born and destined to the skies again.
Page 228 - IX. 0 how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven...
Page 316 - Here the free spirit of mankind at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race...
Page 284 - I have no pleasure in them"; while the sun or the light or the moon or the stars be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain; in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened...
Page 186 - God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threaten'd in the fields and groves...
Page 91 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...