Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture of the State of Michigan and ... Annual Report of the Agricultural College Experiment Station from ..., Volume 1867

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Robert Smith Print. Company, State printers and binders, 1867
 

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Page 204 - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 209 - The Wolf Spring, in the commune of Soubey, furnishes a remarkable example of the influence of the woods upon fountains. A few years ago this spring did not exist. At the place where it now rises, a small thread of water was observed after very long rains, but the stream disappeared with the rain. The spot is in the middle of a very steep pasture inclining to the south.
Page 233 - As an immediate effect of the manifestation of mechanical force, we see that a part of the muscular substance loses its vital properties, its character of life; that this portion separates from the living part, and loses its capacity of growth and its power of resistance. We find that this change of properties is accompanied by the entrance of a foreign body (oxygen) into the composition of the muscular...
Page 160 - The most probable supposition is, that propagation is done by halves, each parent giving to the offspring the shape of one-half of the body ; thus the back, loins, hind-quarters, general shape, skin and size, follow one parent ; and the fore-quarters, head, vital and nervous system, the other, and we may go so far as to add, that the former in the great majority of cases go with the male parent, and the latter with the female.
Page 131 - Commission appointed to inquire into the best mode of distributing the Sewage of Towns, and applying it to beneficial and profitable uses.
Page 109 - But perhaps it will be asked, would you shut out the' horse from any participation in agricultural exhibitions ? Certainly not. The horse is one of the most useful of our domestic animals, and his improvement should not be overlooked by agricultural societies.
Page 180 - That whilst this may be caused for the most part by the very fact of crossing, yet it is principally due to the superior influence of the male over the size and external appearance of the offspring: so that it is desirable, for the purposes of the butcher, that the male should be of a larger frame than the female, and should excel in those peculiarities we are desirous of reproducing. Let it be here, however, repeated as an exceptional truth, that though as a rule the male parent influences mostly...
Page 239 - A somewhat concentrated supply of nitrogen does, however, in some cases, seem to be required when the system is overtaxed — as for instance, when day by day more labour is demanded of the animal body than it is competent without deterioration to keep up ; and perhaps also, in the human body, when under excitement or excessive mental exercise. It must be remembered, however, that it is in butchers...
Page 182 - ... nature opposes no barrier to their successful admixture, so that in the course of time, by the aid of selection and careful weeding, it is practicable to establish a new breed altogether.
Page 234 - ... experience proves, that this conversion of living muscular fibre into compounds destitute of vitality is accelerated or retarded according to the amount of force employed to produce motion. Nay, it may safely be affirmed, that they are mutually proportional ; that a rapid transformation of muscular fibre, or, as it may be called, a rapid change of matter...

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