Journal of the Jamaica Agricultural Society, Svazky 26–27

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Jamaica Agricultural Society., 1921
Includes Report of the Jamaica Agricultural Society, 1963-

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Strana 786 - in relation to a holding means any person for the time being entitled to receive the rents and profits of any holding : "Tenant" means the holder of land under a landlord for a , term of years, or for lives, or for lives and years, or from year to year...
Strana 393 - Attending by appointment of another Surveyor to run a line, when Surveyor does not attend or the running of such shall be interrupted .220 Attending on behalf of a proprietor to protect boundaries when a survey is in course of being made of adjoining lands, per diem . 220...
Strana 476 - Medals of gold, silver, or copper, and other metallic articles actually bestowed as trophies or prizes, and received and accepted as honorary distinctions.
Strana 518 - Everyone who has been in a dense forest during a heavy storm knows how thoroughly it protects the soil and stores the water. The force of the rain is broken by the trees, the underbrush, and the litter on the ground, so that it does not beat upon the soil. Much of the precipitation reaches the earth by running down the twigs and branches. In a light shower nearly all of the rain may be intercepted by the leaves of the trees, so that one can stand in the forest without getting wet. Even in a heavy...
Strana 787 - holding that is not either wholly agricultural or wholly pastoral, or in part agricultural, and as to the residue pastoral, or in whole or in. part cultivated as a market garden, or to any holding let to the tenant during his continuance in any office, appointment, or employment held under the landlord.
Strana 517 - Science is also an important branch of the College curriculum. The tuition fees are £50 per annum, but a limited number of students from contributing Colonies and industries are admitted, on the nomination of the respective local Governments and/or Industries, without the payment of tuition fees.
Strana 521 - ... alone, or more than one-sixth of this country's consumption of that product, and her exports and imports, with this product as almost their sole basis directly and indirectly, will considerably exceed those of the entire United States at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. Hawaii being within the tropics, the question of water is of superlative importance. The rainfall is abundant, ranging from a few inches to several hundred inches a year according to locality, but the more abundant...
Strana 786 - BE it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Council of Jamaica, as follows: — 1 — This Law may be cited as "The Tariff Law, 1922.
Strana 1863 - Committee was discharged and a Select Committee of the Legislative Council was appointed to enquire into...
Strana 518 - The action here is of a threefold nature : first, the mechanical obstruction which the foliage offers reduces the amount of the water which reaches the soil and lengthens the time during which it can do so ; the foliage, together with the loose litter of the forest floor, also reduces the compacting effect of the raindrops and the drying effect of sun and...

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