Annual Report of the State Board of Agriculture of the State of Missouri, Volume 12, Part 1876Missouri State Board of Agriculture, 1877 |
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... WHEAT . Generally speaking , the stand of wheat was remarkable . But just in the hight of harvest season the frequent and copious showers of rain prevented the gathering of the crop until it suffered considerable damage . It is ...
... WHEAT . Generally speaking , the stand of wheat was remarkable . But just in the hight of harvest season the frequent and copious showers of rain prevented the gathering of the crop until it suffered considerable damage . It is ...
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... wheat is fifty cents or one dollar a bushel . The same remark may be made of the lawyer . His fees bear up under the pres- sure of the times , with remarkable endurance , and pay no regard to the causes of dis- tress which drive the ...
... wheat is fifty cents or one dollar a bushel . The same remark may be made of the lawyer . His fees bear up under the pres- sure of the times , with remarkable endurance , and pay no regard to the causes of dis- tress which drive the ...
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... wheat , corn , oats , hay , rye , broom corn , flax and castor beans , together with the staple classes of live stock , horses , cattle , mules , swine and sheep ( add also the butter and cheese dairy ) . Now let each member of this ...
... wheat , corn , oats , hay , rye , broom corn , flax and castor beans , together with the staple classes of live stock , horses , cattle , mules , swine and sheep ( add also the butter and cheese dairy ) . Now let each member of this ...
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... wheat crop made it difficult to secure a good stand , and the consequence was a low average . The net price of wheat had not exceeded 50 to 60 cents per bushel . On account of the extremely wet weather in the spring , the corn crop was ...
... wheat crop made it difficult to secure a good stand , and the consequence was a low average . The net price of wheat had not exceeded 50 to 60 cents per bushel . On account of the extremely wet weather in the spring , the corn crop was ...
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... wheat was sown than usual , but a good result obtained . Price 80 cents per bushel . The present wheat crop covered about three times the acreage of the former crop , but when the blade appeared , grasshoppers came and swept it away ...
... wheat was sown than usual , but a good result obtained . Price 80 cents per bushel . The present wheat crop covered about three times the acreage of the former crop , but when the blade appeared , grasshoppers came and swept it away ...
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Page 28 - They are dull and inactive in the cool of the evening, and at these hours are seldom noticed. They are of a pitchy black color, with two rows of large, transverse, dull whitish spots upon the abdomen. The .female, with the saw-like instrument peculiar to the insects of this family, deposits her eggs by a most curious and interesting process, in the stems of the plants, clinging the while to the hairy substance by which these stems are covered.
Page 90 - ... (d). While crowding its way out the antennae and four front legs are held in much the same position as within the egg, the hind legs being generally stretched. But the members bend in every conceivable way, and where several are endeavoring to work through any particular passage, the amount of squeezing and crowding they will endure is something remarkable. Yet if by chance the protecting pellicle is worked off before issuing from the ground, the animal loses all power of further forcing its...
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Page 87 - To the casual observer, the eggs of our locust appear to be thrust indiscriminately into the hole made for their reception. A more careful study of the egg-mass, or egg-pod, will show, however, that the female took great pains to arrange them, not only so as to economize as much space as possible, consistent with the form of each egg, but so as to best facilitate the escape of the...