Annual Report ..., Volume 3Contains the yearbook and annual report of the Department of Household Science and proceedings of the annual meeting of the Illinois Farmers' Institute. |
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A. P. Grout acre Address Adjourned Afternoon session agricultural animals annual meeting Bartlett beets berries better Board boys Bradfordton breeders breeding bushels cattle cent Champaign Champaign County Chicago clover Cook County corn County Farmers County Institute County-President cows crop cultivation dairy directors Discussion district Dolton draft horse E. S. Fursman elected Executive Committee farm feed fertility fruit Galesburg girls growing Hillsboro hogs horses horticultural Illinois Farmers Institute was held interest Kendall County L. N. Beal land live stock Macon County milk Mills Miss Moore motion Music nitrogen o'clock p. m. officers Oliver Wilson orchard organized paper Periam plant poultry pounds Prayer Prof profit Quartette raise Sawyer Secretary seed sheep soil speakers Springfield success sugar beets Tamaroa Taylorville things Thursday tion Treasurer trees Vice President Villa Ridge W. E. Robinson Wilmarth
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Page 160 - It will not be doubted, that, with reference either to individual or national welfare, agriculture is of primary importance. In proportion as nations advance in population and other circumstances of maturity, this truth becomes more apparent, and renders the cultivation of the soil more and more an object of public patronage. Institutions for promoting it grow up, supported by the public purse; and to what object can it be dedicated with greater propriety?
Page 165 - It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his species.
Page 357 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
Page 339 - The ensuing season, in return, may bear The bearded product of the golden year :* For flax and oats will burn the tender field, And sleepy poppies harmful harvests yield.
Page 162 - ... the experience they have acquired during this war while making nitric acid, that they will be in such condition that they intend to furnish the farmers of Germany nitrogen fertilizer at about one-half the price it is costing the consumer here in the United States. If Germany can do that, gentlemen, there is not the slightest doubt in my mind that we can do the same here, or that we can do better.
Page 6 - ... transactions, which report shall include papers pertaining to its work and addresses made at the annual meeting of the organization, and a classified statement of all moneys received and of all expenditures made, and the Governor shall cause ten thousand (10,000) copies of said report to be printed, one-half for the use of the Illinois Farmers' Institute, and the remainder for the use of the State and General Assembly.
Page 381 - LET parents talk much and talk well at home. A father who is habitually silent in his own house may be in many respects a wise man, but he is not wise in his silence. We sometimes see parents, who are the life of every company they enter, dull, silent, uninteresting at home among their children.
Page 345 - He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is the benefactor of mankind ; but he who obscurely worked to find the laws of such growth is the intellectual superior as well as the greater benefactor of the two.
Page 224 - Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered.
Page 381 - ... for home consumption. It is better to instruct children, and make them happy at home, than it is to charm strangers or amuse friends. A silent house is a dull place for young people, a place from which they will escape if they can. They will talk or think of being "shut up" there; and the; youth who does not love home is in danger.