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Página 17
... better for the producers , enabling them to hold their product for good prices when the fall prices are low . Formerly the farmers did the principal part of the retting , selling their crop to the merchants in the form of fiber . I was ...
... better for the producers , enabling them to hold their product for good prices when the fall prices are low . Formerly the farmers did the principal part of the retting , selling their crop to the merchants in the form of fiber . I was ...
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... better for the light or medium soils . The ground is kept free from weeds , the weeding being done when the flax is 4 to 7 inches high . The crop is pulled when ripe and immediately rippled , if it is desired to secure the seed , many ...
... better for the light or medium soils . The ground is kept free from weeds , the weeding being done when the flax is 4 to 7 inches high . The crop is pulled when ripe and immediately rippled , if it is desired to secure the seed , many ...
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... better yield of fiber when the straw is kept until the year following its growth . If fiber is required at once the seed can be rippled and the straw steeped in soft water , that is , rain water , or , if this is not attainable , in ...
... better yield of fiber when the straw is kept until the year following its growth . If fiber is required at once the seed can be rippled and the straw steeped in soft water , that is , rain water , or , if this is not attainable , in ...
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... better system , none have been successful , and , police regulations to the contrary notwithstanding , the best hemp fiber produced in the Sarthe district is still retted in the running streams . Where pool ret- ting is followed the ...
... better system , none have been successful , and , police regulations to the contrary notwithstanding , the best hemp fiber produced in the Sarthe district is still retted in the running streams . Where pool ret- ting is followed the ...
Página 36
... better than the specimens of the green decortication , they are nevertheless poor . The price of the machine , made in two types , has been placed at 3,800 and 4,000 francs . THE LANDTSHEER MACHINES . In the first trials of the large ...
... better than the specimens of the green decortication , they are nevertheless poor . The price of the machine , made in two types , has been placed at 3,800 and 4,000 francs . THE LANDTSHEER MACHINES . In the first trials of the large ...
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Página 98 - ... in view of the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides into the United States he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable, he shall have the power and it shall be his duty to suspend, by proclamation to that effect, the provisions of this act relating to the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides, the production of such country, for such time as he shall deem just...
Página 98 - By that section it was declared that "with a view to secure reciprocal trade with countries producing the following articles and for this purpose, on and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, whenever, and so often as the President shall be satisfied...
Página 98 - ... duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of the United States, which in view of the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides into the United States he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable, he shall have the power and it shall be his duty...
Página 36 - ... by law, have the supervision of the waters of the State and of their appropriation, distribution and diversion, and of the various officers connected therewith. Its decisions to be subject to review by the courts of the State. Sec. 3. Priority of appropriation for beneficial uses shall give the better right. No appropriation shall be denied except when such denial is demanded by the -public interests.
Página 36 - There shall be constituted a board of control, to be composed of the State engineer and superintendents of the water divisions, which shall, under such regulations as may be prescribed by law, have the supervision of the waters of the State and of their appropriation, distribution, and diversion and of the various officers connected therewith. Its decisions to be subject to review by the courts of the State.
Página 36 - ... years, or until his successor shall have been appointed and shall have qualified. He shall be president of the board of control, and shall have general supervision of the waters of the state and of the officers connected with its distribution.
Página 36 - No person shall be appointed to this position who has not such theoretical knowledge and such practical experience and skill as shall fit him for the position.
Página 51 - The grain is either sown broadcast in the place where it is intended to stand till ripe, or thickly in beds, from which it is transplanted when the blade is about a foot high. As soon as the season will admit after the 21st of March, the land is opened by one or more ploughings, according to its strength, and the clods are broken down by blows with wooden mattocks, managed in general by women, with great regularity and address, after which water is let...
Página 36 - They can be described only by negative characters; without habitations, without water, without trees, without mountains, they support merely a few dwarf plants. Why, then, and the case is not peculiar to myself, have these arid wastes taken so firm a hold on my memory...
Página 37 - ... according to the prior rights of each respectively, in whole or in part, and to shut and fasten, or cause to be shut and fastened, the...