Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture and Immigration of VirginiaVirginia Department of Agriculture and Immigration., 1928 - Agriculture |
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Page 54 - ... his teeming gardens, and orchards, and vineyards, and dairies, and barnyards, pitching his crops in his own wisdom, and growing them in independence, making cotton his clean surplus, and selling it in his own time, and in his chosen market, and not at a master's bidding — getting his pay in cash, and not in a receipted mortgage...
Page 37 - Where grows ? — where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil...
Page 27 - ... conducted by the Bureau of Home Economics of the US Department of Agriculture.
Page 87 - ... ratio will be increased rather than diminished. In many cases the condition of the mucous membranes will not permit the presence of organic acid, and soured milk can not be retained. It is also possible that symptoms of autointoxication are due not to unusual bacterial activity in the intestine, but to functional failure of certain organs. This point could be determined only by a physician. It would be very unsafe to consume large quantities of milk, fermented or unfermented, under certain pathological...
Page 99 - Feed a grain mixture in the proportion of 1 pound to each 3 to 4 pints or pounds of milk produced daily by the cow; or 1 pound of grain mixture for every pound of butter fat that the cow produces during the week.
Page 124 - In Great Britain and northern Europe barley takes the place of corn for pig feeding, leading all grains in producing pork of fine quality, both as to hardness and flavor. In American trials somewhat more barley than corn has been required for 100 Ibs.
Page 134 - American novel that best presents "the wholesome atmosphere of American life, and the highest standards of American manners and manhood.
Page 87 - The fat is almost unchanged, and a part only of the sugar is converted into acid, alcohol, or gas. In certain gastric troubles in which it is difficult to find any food that can be retained by the patient, fermented milks are frequently used with good results. Kefir and kumiss especially are used under such circumstances, as the stimulating action of the carbon dioxid which they contain is believed to aid in their digestion.
Page 110 - Year of snow Fruit will grow. Or. in still another form : A year of snow, a year of plenty. That these and similar statements commonly are true is evident from the fact that a more or less continuous covering of snow, incident to a cold winter, not only delays the blossoming of fruit trees till after the probable season of killing frosts but also prevents that alternate thawing and freezing so ruinous to wheat and other winter grains. In short, as another proverb puts it, A late spring never deceives.