Annual Report of the Missouri State Board of AgricultureMissouri State Board of Agriculture, 1883 |
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Seite 11 - SEC. 1. The officers of this society shall consist of a President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Executive Committee consisting of five, of which the President and Vice-President shall be ex-officio members.
Seite 9 - This constitution may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the members present at any regular meeting.
Seite 13 - This Constitution may be amended by a two-thirds vote of all the active members...
Seite 65 - Pippin, Seedling, Beauty, Favorite and other like useless and improper titles to our fruits. The cases are very few where a single word will not form a better name for a fruit than two or more. Thus shall we establish a standard worthy of imitation by other nations, and I suggest that we ask the co-operation of all pomological and horticultural societies, in this and foreign countries, in carrying out this important reform.
Seite 9 - VI. As soon after each regular annual meeting as possible, the President shall appoint the following Standing Committees; and they shall be required to give a report in writing, under their respective...
Seite 9 - Any person may become a member of this society upon the payment of one dollar, and membership shall continue upon the payment of one dollar annually. The payment of ten dollars at any one time shall constitute a person a life member, and honorary members may be elected at any regular meeting of the society. And any lady may become a member by giving her name to the secretary. ART.
Seite 193 - After changing their skin four times, they become fully grown, when they measure about three-fourths of an inch. At this season they descend into the ground, and form a very weak cocoon of earth, the inside being made smooth by a sort of gum. In this they soon change to pupae, from which are produced a second brood of flies by the end of June and beginning of July.
Seite 68 - Rule 1. — In estimating the comparative values of collections of fruits committees are instructed to base such estimates strictly upon the varieties in such collections which shall have been correctly named by the exhibitor prior to action thereon by the committee on nomenclature.
Seite 193 - The eggs are white, opaque, and 0.03 of an inch long, and may be readily perceived upon splitting the stalk, though the outside orifice at which they were introduced is scarcely visible. They soon increase somewhat in bulk, causing a swelling of the stalk, and hatch in two weeks, — more or less, according to the temperature, — and, during the early part of May, the worms attract attention by the innumerable small holes they make in the leaves.
Seite 239 - And sweeping southward nature's kindly soil To choke the watercourses, worse than waste. The forest trees that in the olden time — The people's glory and the poet's pride — Tempered the air and guarded well the earth, And under spreading boughs for ages kept Great reservoirs to hold the snow and rain, From which the moisture through the teeming year Flowed equably but freely — all were gone, Their priceless boles exchanged for petty cash.