Report of [E. Holmes] the Secretary and Transactions of the County Agricultural Societies, for 1855: 1853 |
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Agricultural Society animals Anson Augusta barn better Biddeford Black Hawk bred breeding mare Bridgton bushels bushels of ears bushels per acre calf Capt cheese color Committee award corn COUNTY SOCIETY crop cultivate CUMBERLAND COUNTY Devons draft horses Durham bull East Livermore England entered for premium exhibited farm farmers Farmingdale feet fourth premium fruits full blood Gardiner grade Durham gratuity ground half bushels harrowed harvested heifer hens Hereford hill horse improved inches John Kennebec Kennebec County labor land Lewiston loads loam manure merino milch cows milk milkers Morgan Morgan horse native Norridgewock old colt old steers oxen pair Pittston planted plowed potatoes pounds produce profit raised Readfield Saco Samuel second best second premium seed sheep short-horns soil sowed spring stallion Starks statement steer calves third premium three year old Topsham trees varieties Waterville Wayne West Gardiner wheat William Wilton Winthrop yearling yoke
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Seite 221 - And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Seite 203 - Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
Seite 135 - ... standard or size adapted to their situation and suited to their food. On the other hand, when a smaller breed than ordinary is brought in, they continue to increase in bulk until they come up to the pitch which is suited to their nourishment. But there is this remarkable difference...
Seite 78 - Warnerton was slain. That sometime after, one Sampson Lane came over from England, with power, as he pretended, to look after and take care of the aforesaid plantations, and did settle himself in the great house at Strawberry Bank, and made additions thereunto, where he continued about three years, and then returned for England, upon whose departure John and Richard...
Seite 79 - Mason hud made a great plantation at Piscataqua and Newichewanock, where there were a great stock of cattle, and much land improved — and these deponents about forty years since, did see a drove of one hundred head of great cattle, or thereabouts, that came from off Capt. Mason's plantation at Piscataqua, and drove through, the town of Hampton, towards Boston, by Capt. Norton and others, the servants of Capt. Mason or his heirs, and there sold and disposed of (as these deponents were informed)...
Seite 49 - Although, in point of usefulness, the horse cannot claim superiority over - • some other domestic animals, he has ever been regarded with peculiar interest. To the human tribes who were first able to command his services, he must have been of immense importance in warlike adventures, from the power he conferred in attack and escape. But he has been prized for various properties ; the beauty and gracefulness of his form, the nobleness of his demeanor, his strength and swiftness, have furnished a...
Seite 236 - Forward, in the name of God; grafte, set, plant, and nourish up trees in every corner of your ground. The labor is small, the cost is nothing, the commodity is great; yourselves shall have plenty, the poore shall have somewhat in time of want to relieve their necessity, and God shall rewarde your good mindes and diligence." See paper on "Best trees for hedges,
Seite 78 - Warnerton, a servant to Capt. Mason, and lived in a fair house at Strawberry Bank, about the year 1644, did carry quantities of Goods and Arms belonging unto Capt.
Seite 212 - All scattered in the bottom of the sea, Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems, That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.
Seite 236 - ... forward in the name of God, graft, set, plant and nourish up •. trees in every corner of your ground ; the labour is small, the cost is nothing, the commodity is great ; yourselves shall have plenty, the poor shall have somewhat in time of want to relieve their necessity, and God shall reward your good minds and diligence.