Book/Printed Material The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, at their annual fair at Randolph, N.Y. September 14, 1877.
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Image 1 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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- Date: 1877
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Image 4 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
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Image 5 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
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Image 6 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
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Image 7 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
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Image 8 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
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Image 9 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... THE GRASS FAMILY.- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 10 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
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Image 11 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... THE GRASS FAiVllLY -m-= AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF CATTARAUGUS COUNTY, AT THEIR ANNUAL FAIR AT RANDOLPH, N. Y SEPTEMBER U, 1877. BY PROF. J. T. EDWARDS, D. D....- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 12 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... Ei: it.T.- il necording to Act of C cnoress. In the year 18; 7. by JAMES T. E D W A B D S In the Office of the Librarian of Cono-ress,...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 13 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... I THE GRASS FAMILY. Mil. President, Gentlemen of the Society, Ladies and Gen- tlemen: Bountiful crops li;ive again rewarded the labor of the hus1)andnian. We have never had more abundant harvests. In...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 14 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... 2. In beautiful and appropriate words, Wliittier has sung of these har- vest days. The notes of his lyre are always sweetest when wakened by his sympathy with human trials and successes:...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 15 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... This union of liantls and heads has created a complete revolution in the art of farming. From the mental activity thus fostered, have sprung numerous inventions to mitigate the labors of man,...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 16 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... 4. practice over the gi eater part of Scotland; a continnal struofgie be- tween corn and weeds for supremacy; the roller almost unknown; no harrowing before sowing, and the seed sown into...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 17 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... Nowhere are the results of scicutilic study and carelul culture more evident and interestino; than in the present cultivation of tliat most imjiortant branch of the vejjetable kingdom called THE GRASSES. We...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 18 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... 6. Four shades of color are given, the deepest tint niarkhig those regions where the dairy products are over fortj^ dollars per-capita. You will be interested to know what sections are covered...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 19 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... 7. We learn from these maps that we, iii this section, are not to de- pend upon corn and wlieat, but upon those humbler, but not less use- ful members of this...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 20 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... .9. tition iicross the stem, willi leuv wliicli form an open sheath ])art way up the stem, terminating usually in a slender blade, and general- ly, at the point of junction of...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 21 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... n. alas! mouruecl their loss when the rats broke hito his collection and ate them; bnt he consoled himself with the reflection— a comforting one, for the crew had the scnrvy— that...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 22 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... 70. We have learned to respeet these Investigators, and that a spirit of observation and research is a fruitful source of agricultural pro- gress. There is a saying which has been so...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 23 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... just beneath the ground, (though one kind of timothy has fibrous roots), and in it is paclied away, through the elaboration of the leaves and stem, a large amount of nutriment upon...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 24 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... 72. he kept them all. But he would furubh their seed from the same barrel; they are really one. It is a grass that exhibits itself umler quite different aspects in var3Mno;...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 25 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... 78. It seems to bo titted for a pioneer, and it is said that havinj^ once fastened itself upon the prairies of the west, it will sometimes displace all other grasses. Graceful...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 26 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... tlie whole looking like a huge hay stack with white wings. There is one important exception to the inferiority of these sea-shore gi asses, and that is the black grass. Just along...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 27 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... /J. part of farming; but a greater heresy than that has never cursed the profession. If j ^ou would preserve your grasses from the bugs, worms, caterpillars and grasshoppers, welcome the birds...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 28 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... 7H. on the silk. Prescott says tliat tlie discovery of Columbus, viewed in its results, was the greatest achievement ever wrought b} a human being. The introduction of corn into tlie old...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 29 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... /7. Rye. {Secale Cereale.) Its origin is not Ivnown. It varies less under cultivation than any other grain, only two varieties, the winter and spring rye being sown. Tlie firm and glossy...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 30 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... peck; which would make a fraction over ninety bushels to the acre; these were the horse-mane oats, so called because the grains incline to one side of the stalk. Millet. Panicum Miliaceum....- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 31 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... 70. ply is tlie last mentioned. The West Indies and Guli States yield iunnense ciuantities, which are shii)pod to all quarters of the globe. The mode of planting is quite similar to...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 32 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... 20. egant than ivory work, are produced from the hard stem. From the large quantity of silex iu tlie wood, thin slices make good knives. After this description, none will be disposed...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 33 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... 2i. eat but brambles and blackberry vines. I am satisfied we have too mucli land in our pastures; half as much, brushed, seeded, harrowed or plowed, and sowed, would give a far...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 34 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... 22. cottage, adorn the places where we live. I plead for the wife and children, that they may have a spot for flowers and fragrance, the green turf, soft to the weary...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 35 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... 23. and these are not all. As you follow the Avinding mountain path, beneath arching boughs all veiled and dim with blossoms, paths that forever droop and rise over the green banks...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 36 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... 2i-. Be proud of your heritage and happy in your work. When Croesus, the wealthiest man of antiquity, aslved Solon, the wise man of Greece, who he thought was the happiest man...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 37 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... APPENDIX -9J Throngli the courtesy of Ivison, Blakenian, Taylor Co.. of New York, I am permitted to use the beautiful lithographic eno rav- iags of the grasses published by them iu their...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 38 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... 2fi. EXPLANATION OF PLATES. PLATE VII. Leersia (White Grass.) Panicle of Leersia oryzoides (Rice Ciit- j rass) reduced in size (1); abranchletof the same, with its spike- lets (little flowers of the...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 39 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ... d^ivir- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877
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Image 40 of The grass family. An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Cattaraugus County, ...- Contributor: Edwards, James T. (James Thomas)
- Date: 1877