Transactions of the Department of Agriculture of the State of Illinois with Reports from County and District Agricultural Organizations for the Year ..., Volume 14 |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Transactions of the Department of Agriculture of the State of ..., Volume 34 Illinois. Department of Agriculture Affichage du livre entier - 1897 |
Transactions of the Department of Agriculture of the State of ..., Volume 19 Illinois. Department of Agriculture Affichage du livre entier - 1882 |
Transactions of the Department of Agriculture of the State of ..., Volume 10 Illinois. Department of Agriculture Affichage du livre entier - 1873 |
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Page 299 - Be it Resolved, That the Secretary be instructed to forward a copy of these resolutions...
Page 18 - ... buds. The eggs are usually hatched between the first and the middle of May, or about the time that the red currant is in blossom and the young leaves of the apple-tree begin to start from the bud and grow.
Page 211 - ... throat, and harmoniously swelling to the shoulders ; chest broad and deep ; back broad and moderately arched ; rump nearly level with it; well let down in the twist; body of good length and depth, round, with well sprung ribs, and straight along the sides and under the belly ; shoulders, above all in the boar, extra thick, yet sloping smoothly to the body ; hams broad, round, deep, and so thick through from side to side, particularly in the sow and barrow, that, standing directly behind, except...
Page 211 - ... mingling with it of buff; a small blaze in the face; two to four feet white, and more or less white hair in the tail. The plum color was preferred to the black or slate, because it carried rather higher style and finer points with it, a superior quality of flesh, softer hair, and thinner skin. The above is no ideal description of choice improved Berkshire swiue.
Page 159 - ... it both in the larva and in the perfect state, but go underground to pass into the pupa state , in which state — like all other Beetles, without exception — they are quiescent, and eat nothing at all. The larva of the Three-lined Leaf-beetle may be distinguished from all other insects that prey upon the potato by its habit of covering itself with its own excrement. In Figure...
Page 150 - By collecting the fallen branches in the autumn, and burning them before the spring, we prevent the development of the beetles, while we derive some benefit from the branches as fueL It is somewhat remarkable that, while the pine and fir tribes rarely suffer to any extent from the depredations of caterpillars and other leaf-eating insects, the resinous odor of these trees, offensive as it is to such insects, does not prevent many kinds of borers from burrowing into and destroying...
Page 41 - The following is from Harris's " Injurious Insects " : " The body of the female is cylindrical, about as thick as a common lead-pencil, and an inch and a half or more in length, exclusive of the borer, which is an inch long and projects three-eighths of an inch beyond the body. The latter rounds upwards like the stern of a boat, and is armed with a point or short horn. The head and thorax are rustcoloured, varied...
Page 160 - It is of a chestnut-brown color, and is densely covered with short and dense whitish hairs, which give it a hoary appearance. I have found it very thick in most of the vineyards which I visited, and it is almost universally miscalled the " Rose-bug," which is, however, a very different insect.
Page 211 - ... of seven feet long ; but I do not consider this a fair way of measuring. Height to top of shoulder, two feet eleven inches; height to top of rump, three feet; girth close behind the shoulders, five feet six inches. He was in rather lean condition when I measured him, as I kept him so in order not to be too heavy to serve small sows. It is well known that when a Berkshire is fully fed, in addition to the meat on his sides, ho lays two to four inches more on his back.
Page 132 - ... color ; the wingcovers have a broad stripe of light gray on the outer side, edged within by a slender blackish line, and sending two short oblique branches almost across each wing-cover; and the fore-legs are much larger than the others.