BulletinU.S. Government Printing Office, 1890 - Agriculture |
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... industry . This is the creamy Flemish flax , from which the finest linen fabrics are made , and which owes its peculiar color to the waters of this famed stream , " the golden Lys , " in which the Courtrai flax is always retted . Flax ...
... industry . This is the creamy Flemish flax , from which the finest linen fabrics are made , and which owes its peculiar color to the waters of this famed stream , " the golden Lys , " in which the Courtrai flax is always retted . Flax ...
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... industry occupies its banks for 20 miles . On both sides of the nar- row stream , reminding one of a canal more than a river , though there was no tow - path , back for 50 rods or more , and as far into the distance as the eye could ...
... industry occupies its banks for 20 miles . On both sides of the nar- row stream , reminding one of a canal more than a river , though there was no tow - path , back for 50 rods or more , and as far into the distance as the eye could ...
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... industry . I visited Lille , but found nothing especially different in methods of culture and after - treatment from the practices pursued in Belgium , though I was surprised to learn that most of the flax grown in this section is ...
... industry . I visited Lille , but found nothing especially different in methods of culture and after - treatment from the practices pursued in Belgium , though I was surprised to learn that most of the flax grown in this section is ...
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... industry in France . METHODS IN IRELAND . My visit to Belfast , in the latter part of October , was mainly for the purpose of examining special flax machinery ; so , little time was spent in studying the Irish methods of culture , and ...
... industry in France . METHODS IN IRELAND . My visit to Belfast , in the latter part of October , was mainly for the purpose of examining special flax machinery ; so , little time was spent in studying the Irish methods of culture , and ...
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... in- vented by John Orr Wallace , of Belfast , that I wish especially to report upon , having spent several days in this center of the Irish linen industry , where I saw it in operation . THE WALLACE MACHINE . This is a flax - scutching 21.
... in- vented by John Orr Wallace , of Belfast , that I wish especially to report upon , having spent several days in this center of the Irish linen industry , where I saw it in operation . THE WALLACE MACHINE . This is a flax - scutching 21.
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Page 98 - ... in view of the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides into the United States he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable, he shall have the power and it shall be his duty to suspend, by proclamation to that effect, the provisions of this act relating to the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides, the production of such country, for such time as he shall deem just...
Page 98 - By that section it was declared that "with a view to secure reciprocal trade with countries producing the following articles and for this purpose, on and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, whenever, and so often as the President shall be satisfied...
Page 98 - ... duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of the United States, which in view of the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides into the United States he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable, he shall have the power and it shall be his duty...
Page 36 - ... by law, have the supervision of the waters of the State and of their appropriation, distribution and diversion, and of the various officers connected therewith. Its decisions to be subject to review by the courts of the State. Sec. 3. Priority of appropriation for beneficial uses shall give the better right. No appropriation shall be denied except when such denial is demanded by the -public interests.
Page 36 - There shall be constituted a board of control, to be composed of the State engineer and superintendents of the water divisions, which shall, under such regulations as may be prescribed by law, have the supervision of the waters of the State and of their appropriation, distribution, and diversion and of the various officers connected therewith. Its decisions to be subject to review by the courts of the State.
Page 36 - ... years, or until his successor shall have been appointed and shall have qualified. He shall be president of the board of control, and shall have general supervision of the waters of the state and of the officers connected with its distribution.
Page 36 - No person shall be appointed to this position who has not such theoretical knowledge and such practical experience and skill as shall fit him for the position.
Page 51 - The grain is either sown broadcast in the place where it is intended to stand till ripe, or thickly in beds, from which it is transplanted when the blade is about a foot high. As soon as the season will admit after the 21st of March, the land is opened by one or more ploughings, according to its strength, and the clods are broken down by blows with wooden mattocks, managed in general by women, with great regularity and address, after which water is let...
Page 36 - They can be described only by negative characters; without habitations, without water, without trees, without mountains, they support merely a few dwarf plants. Why, then, and the case is not peculiar to myself, have these arid wastes taken so firm a hold on my memory...
Page 37 - ... according to the prior rights of each respectively, in whole or in part, and to shut and fasten, or cause to be shut and fastened, the...