| Adam Smith - 1809 - 372 páginas
...grounds, where th.ey are half-starv. rd; having long ago extirpated almost all the annual grasses, by cropping, them too. early in the spring, before...time to form their flowers, or to shed their seeds,* The annual grasses were, it seems, the best natural grasses in that part of North America ; and when... | |
| Robert Bailey Thomas - 1860 - 628 páginas
...uncultivated grounds, where they are half starved, having long ago extirpated almost lull the animal grasses by cropping them too early in the spring, before they had time l to form their flowers or to abed their seeds.'' The stock in other parts of the country 1 fared no... | |
| James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1858 - 772 páginas
...uncultivated grounds, where they are half-starved ; having long ago extirpated almost all the annual grasses by cropping them too early in the spring, before they...time to form their flowers, or to shed their seeds. The annual grasses were, it seems, the best natural grasses in that part of North America ; and when... | |
| Henry Charles Carey - 1859 - 546 páginas
...— having long ago extirpated almost all the annual grasses by eropping them too early in the sprmg before they had time to form their flowers, or to shed their seeds. —Quoted by SMITH : Wealth of Nationi, Part 1, chap. xi. The picture here presented of the 2,000,000... | |
| Henry Charles Carey - 1860 - 528 páginas
...uncultivated grounds, whore they are half-starved — having long ago extirpated almost all the annual grasses by cropping them too early in the spring, before they...time to form their flowers, or to shed their seeds." — Quoted hy SMITH: Wealth of Nations, Part 1. chap. xi. The picture here presented of the 2,000,000... | |
| 1864 - 622 páginas
...uncultivated grounds, where they are half starved, having long ago extirpated almost all the uuniffl grasses by cropping them too early in the spring, before they...time to form their flowers or to shed their seeds." The poorness of pasturage and want of food had caused the cattle to diminish in size from one generation... | |
| 1871 - 668 páginas
...uncultivated grounds, where they are half starved, having long ago extirpated almost all the annual grasses by cropping them too early in the spring, • before...time to form their flowers or to shed their seeds." The poorness of pasturage and want of food had caused the cattle to diminish in size from one generation... | |
| United States. Department of Agriculture - 1872 - 562 páginas
...they are half starved, having long ago extirpated all the annual grasses by cropping them too early iu the spring, before they had time to form their flowers...statement will apply with nearly equal force to the other colonies at that date. That the description is strictly correct, I may quote from a distinguished Virginian,... | |
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