The Challenge of the Country: A Study of Country Life Opportunity, by George Walter Fiske ...Association Press, 1912 - 283 страници |
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... conservatism , and a brother's sincere spirit ; but when cooperation is once promised , your goal is gained . They will say what they mean . They will do as they say . The Challenge of the Difficult in Rural Life Since the invention of ...
... conservatism , and a brother's sincere spirit ; but when cooperation is once promised , your goal is gained . They will say what they mean . They will do as they say . The Challenge of the Difficult in Rural Life Since the invention of ...
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... Conservatism Modern efficiency in city and country . The natural conservatism of farmers . What is progressive agriculture ? Its development by government patronage . II . Some Special Aspects of Scientific Agriculture Intensive farming ...
... Conservatism Modern efficiency in city and country . The natural conservatism of farmers . What is progressive agriculture ? Its development by government patronage . II . Some Special Aspects of Scientific Agriculture Intensive farming ...
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... Conservatism . Modern Efficiency not Confined to Cities Efficiency is everywhere demanded by the spirit of our times . We are living in an age that does things . Whatever the difficulties , it somehow gets things done . It brings to ...
... Conservatism . Modern Efficiency not Confined to Cities Efficiency is everywhere demanded by the spirit of our times . We are living in an age that does things . Whatever the difficulties , it somehow gets things done . It brings to ...
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... Conservatism of Farmers In all fairness it must be said , the modern gospel of progressiveness has not been everywhere accepted , far from it . Plenty of farmers , doubtless the majority , are still following the old traditions ...
... Conservatism of Farmers In all fairness it must be said , the modern gospel of progressiveness has not been everywhere accepted , far from it . Plenty of farmers , doubtless the majority , are still following the old traditions ...
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... of progressiveness with true conservatism , we are conserving our national assets from Niagara to the mighty forests of Washington and California and from the arid lands of the mighty empire of TRIUMPHS OF SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE 109.
... of progressiveness with true conservatism , we are conserving our national assets from Niagara to the mighty forests of Washington and California and from the arid lands of the mighty empire of TRIUMPHS OF SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE 109.
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Страница 96 - That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment stations to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject with the remedies for the same...
Страница 97 - SEC. 2. That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment stations to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject, with...
Страница 52 - How can the life of the farm family be made less solitary, fuller of opportunity, freer from drudgery, more comfortable, happier, and more attractive?
Страница 93 - ... one has suggested, to produce an illuminated / bee that could work at night by his own light. Nor ' have they produced woven-wire fences by crossing the spider and the wire-worm! Not yet; but they have done better. By skillful cross-breeding, they have raised the efficiency of the sugar beet from to 15 % sugar. They have produced hardy, seedless oranges, plums, apples, and strawberry plants which will stand the climate of the frozen north. They have developed fine, long-stapled cotton, high-yielding...
Страница 53 - Upon the development of country life rests ultimately our ability, by methods of farming requiring the highest intelligence, to continue to feed and clothe the hungry nations; to supply the city with fresh blood, clean bodies, and clear brains that can endure the terrific strain of modern life; we need the development of men in the open country, who will be in the future, as in the past, the stay and strength of the Nation in time of war, and its guiding and controlling spirit in time of peace.
Страница 137 - Annals of the Am. Acad. of Pol. and Sue. Sci., March, 1912; p. 189. viduals of all ages, may be permanently quickened and inspired; the play movement thus making surely for greater contentment, cleaner morals, and more intense patriotism and righteousness on the farm lands and in the village populations of our country. Such indeed are the socializing effects of organized and supervised play.
Страница 26 - The well-being of a people is like a tree; agriculture is its root, manufacturing and commerce are its branches and its life; if the root is injured, the leaves fall, the branches break away and the tree dies.
Страница 97 - ... of crops; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation; the analysis of soils and water; the chemical composition of manures, natural or artificial, with experiments designed to test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese; and such other researches...
Страница 43 - In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing. It leads a man forth among scenes of natural grandeur and beauty ; it leaves him to the workings of his own mind, operated upon by the purest and most elevating of external influences. Such a man may be simple and rough, but he cannot be vulgar.
Страница 242 - ... brave men in my day, but no man in the trenches of Sebastopol carried himself more knightly than William MacLure. You will never have heard from his lips what I may tell you today, that my father secured for him a valuable post in his younger days...