Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the Year ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1876
 

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333 ページ - That no lands acquired under the provisions of this Act shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt or debts contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.
466 ページ - Treasurer shall hold the Contingent Fund of the District, which she shall disburse upon the order of the President and Corresponding Secretary. ART. 6. There shall be an Annual Meeting for the election of officers and the transaction of such other business as may be of interest to the Association. ART. 7.
334 ページ - That the fifth section of the act entitled "An act in addition to an act more effectually to provide for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, and for other purposes...
448 ページ - It was there determined that the president and secretaries should be a committee to mature and adopt a plan for a convention of delegates from the various agricultural societies of the Commonwealth, to be holden at some convenient time and place, " the object of which shall be to concert measures for their mutual advantage, and for the promotion of the cause of agricultural education.
218 ページ - ... from the top to the breast, indicating a springing rib beneath, and leaving room for it. The ribs coming out horizontally from the spine, and extending far backward, and the last rib projecting more than the others ; the back flat from the shoulders to the setting on of the tail ; the loin broad and flat ; the rump long and broad, and the tail set on high and nearly on a level with the spine. The hips wide...
333 ページ - May twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, or any amendment thereto, having a homestead on said public domain, who, at the end of the third year of his or her residence thereon, shall have had under cultivation, for two years, one acre of timber, the trees thereon not being more than twelve feet apart each way, and in a good, thrifty condition, for each and every sixteen acres of said homestead, shall, upon due proof of said fact by .two credible witnesses, receive his or her patent for said...
518 ページ - Italy, Germany, France, Britain, and the United States, have seen, or are seeing, the productiveness of thousands of their fields decline to a profitless minimum, until lands once beautiful with harvests are desolate and abandoned. But the artificial barrenness of exhaustion, like the natural barrenness of the heath, or the sand-down, yields to the touch of science ; and in all the older countries I have named, the work of reclamation is in full progress, and barring some great calamity of politics...
332 ページ - ... who are citizens of the United States or who have declared their intention to become such...
443 ページ - ... on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January of each year. The...
169 ページ - England States, but rather common in the southern and western ones. There are several varieties, one of which is usually a low and straggling bush. In the Western States, it often becomes a lofty tree. It somewhat resembles the elm in foliage and the ash in bark. It produces a dryish kind of berry about the size of a pea. The wood is white, but is not considered durable. No.

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