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143. lappuse - A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family ; he cheats them. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading, and grows upon it...
76. lappuse - Following is an outline of a simple method of corn selection which the writer believes to be applicable to general conditions and not too complex for farmers to carry out. The method is not advocated as a careful breeding method, but simply as a method of seed improvement. FIRST METHOD...
37. lappuse - ... take the dry matter of the hen and compare it with the dry matter in the eggs" she lays in a year, there will be five and one-half times as much dry matter in the eggs as in her whole body. The weight of the dry matter in the cow's body to the weight of the dry matter in the milk will be as i to 2.9.
75. lappuse - ... some variety grown in their neighborhood which is known to give good results. Seed procured from a distance may not be good seed or may have been grown under entirely different conditions. It is usually shelled so the grower does not know whether it has been shelled from good ears or not. The only way therefore of getting good seed is to raise it oneself or buy it from a local man known to be growing a good variety adapted to the locality. In this paper the writer will describe two simple methods...
37. lappuse - Note small comb and wattles and elongated beak. •Fio. 3. — A. A FINE SPECIMEN OF A PHYSICALLY AND SEXUALLY STRONG MALE. Observe the alert attitude, expression, and brilliant plumage as compared with B, the sexless male, a large, clumsy, inactive individual. Strong. Weak. A. Barred Plymouth Rock. Strong. Weak. B. White Plymouth Rock. Weak. Strong. C. White Leghorn. Weak. Strong. D. Silver Spangled Hamburg. Weak. Strong. E. Buff Plymouth Rock. Strong. Weak. F. Buff Orpington. FIG. 4. — A, B,...
87. lappuse - Materials required, six-tenths of an acre of land, twelve stakes, six bushels of lime, fifteen pounds (J) bushel of Alfalfa seed, soil from an Alfalfa field or from a place where sweet clover grows. Directions. Unless the land selected is very rich, manure should be applied to all the plots at the rate of about ten loads per acre or six loads for this area. Plow the land early in the spring. Lay off a plot 8x12 rods and drive a stake every four rods as in the figure.
81. lappuse - The average yields in New York are almost the same as those in Ohio, but the value per ton is more. The value may be overestimated. Alfalfa has almost the same composition as wheat bran. This has led to the common statement that it is as valuable as wheat bran. This is not true. It is always...
143. lappuse - ... him. Among the earliest ambitions to be excited in clerks, workmen, journeymen, and, indeed, among all that are struggling up in life from nothing to something, is that of owning, and constantly adding to, a library of good books. A little library growing larger every year, is an honorable part of a young man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.
37. lappuse - if you take the dry matter of the hen and compare it with the dry matter in the eggs" she lays in a year, there will be five and one-half times as much dry matter in the eggs as in her whole body.
99. lappuse - From 80 to 90 per cent, of a fruit crop is water; the food used in the foliage is returned to the soil. The percentage of solid matter is much greater in farm crops. 2. Trees have a preparatory season of several years before they begin bearing. Farm crops come and go in a season. 3. The growing season for trees is long, from early spring to late fall. It is comparatively short for farm crops. 4. The roots go down and spread out in the case of tree-fruits, but are comparatively restricted with farm...