Annual Report of the State Board of Agriculture of the State of Missouri, Svazek 12,Díl 1876

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Missouri State Board of Agriculture, 1877
 

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Strana 8 - ... for at least one week, in some newspaper published in the county if there be one, and if there be none published in the county, then such ordinance shall be posted at the courthouse door at least one week.
Strana 80 - ... whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.
Strana 87 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Strana 6 - Company," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity within the United States, and may make and have a common seal.
Strana 78 - When our people learn that the necessity for labor is a blessing rather than a curse ; that ' he who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before...
Strana 6 - ... of them shall be a board for the transaction of business, but a less number may adjourn from time to time : Provided, That if an election of...
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 10 - ... shall take and subscribe an oath that he will well and faithfully perform the duties of treasurer thereof. It shall be the duty of the president to preside at the meetings of the board ; and in case of his inability to preside, the board may appoint a president pro tempore.
Strana 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...

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