The Western Journal, of Agriculture, Manufactures, Mechanic Arts, Internal Improvement, Commerce, and General Literature, Volume 4M. Tarver and T.F. Risk, 1850 - Missouri Agriculture and the mechanic arts are the basis of civilization. |
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Page 246
... soil ; it may pre- sent the semblance of prosperity for a time , but it matters not how much it produces , nor what amount of money may be received in exchange for its products , whenever it ceases to re- munerate the labor bestowed ...
... soil ; it may pre- sent the semblance of prosperity for a time , but it matters not how much it produces , nor what amount of money may be received in exchange for its products , whenever it ceases to re- munerate the labor bestowed ...
Page 280
... Soils , Plants and Animals- Organic and inorganic matt r - inorganic matter the food of plants - necessity of restoring to the soil the properties drawn from it by plants - Effects produced on the condition of a country by exhausting its ...
... Soils , Plants and Animals- Organic and inorganic matt r - inorganic matter the food of plants - necessity of restoring to the soil the properties drawn from it by plants - Effects produced on the condition of a country by exhausting its ...
Page 359
... soil is so intermixed with sand as scarcely to be perceptible , save in its luxuriant grasses and shrubs , which extend several hundred miles towards the mountains , and is again succeeded by a strip of fertile dark soil along the ...
... soil is so intermixed with sand as scarcely to be perceptible , save in its luxuriant grasses and shrubs , which extend several hundred miles towards the mountains , and is again succeeded by a strip of fertile dark soil along the ...
Contents
IFREE BANKINGBanks considered as the agents of production and commerce | 211 |
AND A RAILROAD TO THE VALLEY OF THE | 222 |
REPORT ON A NEW ROUTE FROM SAN ANTONIO DE LEXAR TO | 230 |
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