Report of the Secretary of Agriculture ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1867 |
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... animals for work , by W. H. Gardner .... 355 * English and American dairying , their points of difference and comparative merits , by X. A. Willard .... 358 The hog and its products , by Charles Cist ... 382 . Pisciculture , with ...
... animals for work , by W. H. Gardner .... 355 * English and American dairying , their points of difference and comparative merits , by X. A. Willard .... 358 The hog and its products , by Charles Cist ... 382 . Pisciculture , with ...
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... animals , which have been kindly donated , have not been mounted for want of means to have them done properly , but are carefully kept until the department may be able to have them put up . Some valuable specimens of fibres have been ...
... animals , which have been kindly donated , have not been mounted for want of means to have them done properly , but are carefully kept until the department may be able to have them put up . Some valuable specimens of fibres have been ...
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... animals have attracted much attention in certain sections of the country ; their fleeces command a high price , and the value or their manufactures would seem to warrant the encouraging attention of the de- partment . Type specimens of ...
... animals have attracted much attention in certain sections of the country ; their fleeces command a high price , and the value or their manufactures would seem to warrant the encouraging attention of the de- partment . Type specimens of ...
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... animals will be unusually abundant . The hay crop , slightly deficient in some sections , is large in others , and of more than average quality ; and the estimated total product of oats is sixty per cent . greater than in 1859. The ...
... animals will be unusually abundant . The hay crop , slightly deficient in some sections , is large in others , and of more than average quality ; and the estimated total product of oats is sixty per cent . greater than in 1859. The ...
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... animals and animal manufactures , including oils , dyes , drugs , gums , cereals , fibres , woods , & c . , & c . , with references to works in the library containing a full account of their growth , habits , uses , and methods of ...
... animals and animal manufactures , including oils , dyes , drugs , gums , cereals , fibres , woods , & c . , & c . , with references to works in the library containing a full account of their growth , habits , uses , and methods of ...
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acres agricultural amount animals average bark Barley branches breed Buckwheat buds bushels Catawba caterpillar cattle cent cheese cinchona climate color Cotswold cotton cows crop cultivation culture disease district eggs England Esox estimated farm farmers favorable feed feet fishes fleece fruit Georgia Gourami grain grapes grass ground growing grown growth hackmatack heat hogs horses hundred imported improved inches increase Indian corn insects juice Kelley's island labor lake land larva larvæ less machine manufacture manure Merinoes miles milk nearly Oats Ohio planter plants plough portion Potatoes pounds produced profitable pruning quantity quinine road roots season seed sheep shoots short-horns soil sorghum South Carolina southern species sugar summer supply surface temperature timber tion Total trees varieties vines weight wheat wheel wine winter wood wool yield York
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