Report of the Vermont Board of Agriculture ..., Volumen5The Board, 1878 |
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Página 331 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Página 202 - The shapely limb and lubricated joint, Within the small dimensions of a point, Muscle and nerve miraculously spun, His mighty work who speaks and it is done, The invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field.
Página 134 - re flowing from our native hills As our free rivers flow ; The blessing of our Mother-land Is on us as we go. We go to plant her common schools On distant prairie swells, And give the Sabbaths of the wild The music of her bells. Upbearing, like the Ark of old, The Bible in our van, We go to test the truth of God Against the fraud of man.
Página 163 - If we farther advance, from mere inactive matter to vegetable and animal life, we shall find them still governed by laws, more numerous indeed, but equally fixed and invariable. The whole progress of plants, from the seed to the root, and from thence to the seed again ; the method of animal *nutrition...
Página 163 - LAW, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action ; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational.
Página 165 - Art thou too fallen, Iberia? Do we see The robber and the murderer weak as we? Thou, that hast wasted earth, and dared despise Alike the wrath and mercy of the skies, Thy pomp is in the grave, thy glory laid Low in the pits thine avarice has made.
Página 205 - Tardigrades ; individuals of which have been kept in a vacuum for thirty days, with sulphuric acid and chloride of calcium, (thus suffering the most complete desiccation that the chemist can effect,) and yet have not lost their capability of revivication.
Página 199 - Fahrenheit, resist fungoid fermentation for months, while those of a peach-tree affected with the " yellows," placed under the same general conditions, will quickly ferment and become covered with the fruit of the fungous mucor. The first possess an antiseptic property, the second are deficient in it. If two blocks of wood, one of boxwood and the other of soft pine, are placed in a fungoid solution, the first will resist the action of the mycelium for a long time because of its density, while the...
Página 378 - If the nitrogen had been applied in the form of nitrate of soda or sulphate of ammonia, i feel confident the results would have been very different.
Página 288 - This constitution may be altered or amended at any annual meeting, by a vote of three-fourths of attending members of at least one year's standing.