Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture

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Reports for 1862-66 include reports of the Ohio Pomological Society.
 

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Página 232 - And he took butter and milk and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
Página 400 - no colony in America was ever settled under such favorable auspices as that which has first commenced at the Muskingum. Information, property, and strength will be its characteristics. I know many of the settlers personally, and there never were men better calculated to promote the welfare of such a community.
Página 408 - Ohio," confirmed the ordinance of 1785, and declared " that religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall be forever encouraged.
Página 453 - ... miles in extent. This tract is surveyed into townships of about five miles square each ; and these townships are then subdivided into four quarters ; and these quarter townships are numbered as in the accompanying figure, the top being considered north. And for individual convenience these are again subdivided, by private surveys, into lots from fifty to five hundred acres each, to suit individual purchasers.
Página 453 - Lands are forty-nine sections, amounting to 31,360 acres, situted along the western side of the Columbus and Sandusky turnpike, in the eastern parts of Seneca, Crawford, and Marion counties. They were originally granted by an act of Congress on the 3d of March, 1827, and more specifically by a supplementary act the year following. The considerations for which these lands were granted were that the mail stages and all troops and property of the United States, which should ever be moved and transported...
Página 398 - States had passed the ordinance of 1785, for the survey of the public territory, and, in 1787, thccclebrated ordinance which organized the Northwestern Territory, and dedicated it to freedom and intelligence. Fifteen years after that, and more than a quarter of a century after the Declaration of Independence, the State of Ohio was admitted into the Union, being the seventeenth which accepted the Constitution of the United States. It has since grown up to be great, populous and prosperous under the...
Página 453 - Ohio river, in favor of the general government, upon condition of the lands, now described, being guaranteed to her. The state of Virginia then appropriated this body of land to satisfy the claims of her state troops, employed in the continental line, during the revolutionary war. This district is not surveyed into townships, or any regular form: but any individual, holding a Virginia military land warrant may locate it, wherever he chooses, within the district, and in such shape as he pleases, wherever...
Página 408 - ... Ohio. Let us now turn from the progress of the arts to the progress of ideas ; from material to intellectual development. It is said that a State consists of men, and history shows that no art or science, wealth or power, will compensate for the want of moral or intellectual stability in the minds of a nation. Hence, it is admitted that the strength and perpetuity of our republic must consist in the intelligence and morality of the people. A republic can last only when the people are enlightened....
Página 453 - ... fit for cultivation." On the admission of Michigan to the federal union, the public domain was classified as Congress Lands, so called because they are sold to purchasers by the immediate officers of the general government, conformably to such laws as are or may be, from time to time, enacted by Congress. They are all regularly surveyed into townships of six miles square each, under authority and at the expense of the national government. The townships are again subdivided into sections of one...
Página 240 - State. It is remarkable how rapidly this interest has been developed. In 1840, the value of the dairy products of New York, butter cheese and milk, was estimated by the US census at only $10,496,000, and in all the States at about $34,000,000.

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