Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents, Volumen2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1855 Prior to 1862, when the Department of Agriculture was established, the report on agriculture was prepared and published by the Commissioner of Patents, and forms volume or part of volume, of his annual reports, the first being that of 1840. Cf. Checklist of public documents ... Washington, 1895, p. 148. |
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Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents, Parte2 United States. Patent Office Vista completa - 1853 |
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents, Parte2 United States. Patent Office Vista completa - 1852 |
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents, Parte2 United States. Patent Office Vista completa - 1853 |
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acre Alleghany county amount animals Annual appearance Apples April articles of merchan average Barometer barrels Beaver county Biscuit bolls breeds bushels Butter caterpillar cattle cents a bushel cider climate color CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE cotton crop cultivated culture December 31 disease early earth eggs experiments exported extremes feet Flax Flaxseed flour fruit gallons Ginseng grain grass green ground growth heat hemp Hogs horses Hours of observation inch in length Indian corn injury insects Island juice July June land Lard larvæ Latitude lightning Linseed oil maize manufacture manure meal mean inches Meteorological Observations molasses moth Number and quantities oats P. M. Observer plant plough Potatoes pounds produced Psychrometer raised roots salt season seed Sept sheep ship-bread skin soil sown spring stalks Statement STATEMENT-Concluded Sugar Summary of Meteorological Tallow temperature Thermometer tierces tion Tobacco tons trees tubers turpentine varieties wheat winter wool yield young
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Página 160 - ... in the proportion of two parts of the former to one of the latter, and expressible by the symbol H2O.
Página 340 - I have never entered into any controversy in defence of my philosophical opinions ; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them. If wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected.
Página xlv - Canton, are dyed with prussian blue and gypsum, to suit the taste of the "foreign barbarians :" indeed, the process may be seen any day, during the season, by those who will give themselves the trouble to seek after it. It is very likely that the same ingredients are also used in dyeing the northern green teas for the foreign market ; of this, however, I am not quite certain.
Página xii - ... readily broken by the hand; it is the largest of the whole, and its kernel is large and easily extracted. Its superiority is said to be attributable to its having been originally engrafted : however this may be, it is now raised from seed alone, and does not degenerate. The nuts steeped in water for eight days are planted in the beginning of March, and the shoot generally makes its appearance in about forty days. If reared by grafts, the process is performed when the plant is five years old :...
Página xliii - The farms are small, each consisting of from one to four or five acres ; indeed, every cottager has his own little tea garden, the produce of which supplies the wants of his family, and the surplus brings him in a few dollars, which are spent on the other necessaries of life.
Página 355 - And after dwelling on the developments and significance of moral statistics, he adds: "The astonishing facts of this class lead us inevitably to the conclusion that all events are governed by a Supreme Intelligence who knows no change ; and that under the same conditions, the same results are invariably produced."* Organic Dynamics.
Página xxxviii - ... through the alleys several times to keep the earth clean and mellow. As soon as the plants again become ten or twelve inches high, bend down and cover them as before, repeating the operation as often as necessary, which is commonly three times the first season. The last time may be as late as September, or later if no frosts occur. By covering the tops in this manner, they change to roots, and the design is to fill the ground as full of roots as possible. When the vacant spaces are...
Página xlviii - These are the edible acorns of the ancients, which they believed fattened the tunny fish, on their passage from the Ocean to the Mediterranean; a fable only proving that they grew on the delicious shores and rocks of Andalusia, which unhappily is no longer the case.
Página 97 - ... period, if the interior is not devoured, the rain penetrates the boll, and the cotton becomes rotten and useless. The caterpillar, after attaining its full size, descends into the earth, where it makes a silky cocoon, interwoven with particles of gravel and earth, in which it changes into a bright, chestnutbrown chrysalis.
Página 100 - ... until the numbers were reduced to two or three moths to each plate, when it was abandoned as being no longer worthy of the trouble. The crop that year was but very little injured by the boll-worm. The flics were caught in their eagerness to feed upon the mixture by alighting into it and being unable to escape...