The cultivation of silk cocoons, formerly a flourishing industry, has greatly declined in recent years, but efforts are now being made to revive it.
The loss to the country in wealth exported and land going out of cultivation has been very serious.
The soil also responds in places to deep cultivation and the application of artificial manures.
Benson "for the cultivation of a life dedicated to God according to the principles of poverty, chastity and obedience.
But a people which subsists by thecultivation of the earth is in a very different situation.
Every trace of intellectual cultivation was there, except a harvest.
The cultivation in sight and prospect are superior, but the Schuylkill is not more like the Hudson, than I to Hercules.
Methods proved to be effective in cultivation shall be reported.
The advice to draw the cultivation of our small farms under group control has not always been profitable when followed by landlords," one who had not yet spoken remarked.
But when silkworm cultivation became prosperous they began to prefer dry land again in order that they might extend the area of mulberries.
A naturally draughty and hungry land was yielding crops by a laborious manurial improvement of its physical and chemical condition, by wonders being wrought in rural hydraulics and by unending industry in cultivation and petty engineering.
To accomplish that aim I increased my area under cultivation and worked hard day and night.
The report of one boy to which I turned in a collection of reports by members of a rice-cultivation society showed that he was between fourteen and fifteen.
A speaker who followed said: "Remember to our credit how our area undercultivation in Old Japan continually increases.
It is because more than half the paddies are always under water that rice cultivation is so laborious.
The cultivationof Coffee might be largely extended.
Attempts to introduce mulberry cultivation for silk have had little success, though the specimens sent to Europe have obtained prizes for their excellent quality.
But it is clear that these rude tribes must ultimately be extinguished by the extension of cultivation and the pressure of a higher civilization.
Sugar planting appeared to be extending, and there are many paddy-fields and much cultivation of maize.
In 1841 the Captain-General Urbiztondo published a decree encouraging the importation of Chinese agricultural labourers by landed proprietors, and with a special view to the cultivation of sugar, indigo and hemp.
A variety of tables have been printed, showing that the average annual profits on coffee cultivation are from 20 to 30 per cent.
I found among them men worthy of being loved and honoured, some of considerable intellectual vigour; but literary cultivation and scientific acquirements are rare.
Cultivation extends and good examples are not without effect.
The smallness of estates necessarily adds to the cost of production, and it would not be easy to induce wealthy capitalists to settle unless facilities were given for the acquisition and cultivation of extensive properties.
Two plans are suggested by Senor De Mas for the emancipation of the tobacco cultivation and manufacture from the existing State monopoly.
Careful cultivation and great attention to the removal of weeds are said to produce hundred-fold crops.
One wave of emigration has followed another; commerce and cultivation have created a demand for, and provided a supply of, the intrusive visitors.
It had to watch alterations in the ownership and cultivation of land, to modify the settlement of Doomsday Book so as to meet new conditions, and to make new distribution of taxes.
The system of cultivation was ignorant and primitive.
Besides literary pursuits, he was occasionally occupied in attending to the cultivation and improvement of his family estate.
He was fond of agricultural pursuits; and as his estates were extensive, he devoted a considerable portion of his time to the cultivation and improvement of his lands.
And now indeed that which protects it (that I may continue to speak chiefly of the vine) is external to the vine: for it has but very little power in itself to keep itself in the best possible condition, unless cultivation is applied to it.
Wherever cultivation appeared the crops were tolerably luxuriant, but a great deal of the country yielded scarcely half-a-dozen kinds of plants to any ten square yards of ground.
Company grant licences for the cultivation of the poppy, and contract for all the produce at certain rates, varying with the quality.
Rice cultivation advances thus high up each valley, and at either place Bhoteeas replace the natives of the lower valleys.
There is little native vegetation, the country being covered with cultivation and extensive groves of mango, and occasionally of guava.
There is much cultivation here, and many comparatively rich villages, all occupying flat-shouldered spurs from Mainom.
They are surrounded by a little cultivation of buck-wheat, radishes, turnips, and mustard.
Within each colony, much of the land remained untilled, while the clan settlements appeared like little islands of cultivation in the midst of forest, waste, and common.
The monasteries owned large tracts of land which they could cultivate on a co-operative plan, as cultivation was impossible elsewhere.
The state of cultivation in which they found the vale of York and the Kentish glens must have been widely different from that to which they were accustomed in their old heath-clad home.
Any complaints in reference to said cultivation or to the right of occupancy must be laid before the commanding officer of this post, in the absence of the Indian agent for this part of the country.
The amount susceptible of cultivation must be many-fold greater than can ever be cultivated by the labor of the Indians.
The Kickapoos remaining in Kansas are peaceable and industrious, continuing to make commendable progress in the cultivation of their farms, and showing much interest in the education of their children.
Here is a village of nearly two hundred Indians; their fields are fenced, well irrigated, and under good cultivation in grains and vegetables.
All persons are hereby warned against disturbing or interfering with the said Indians, or their people, in the occupation or cultivation of said lands.
Thus far they have undercultivation but 100 acres, which have produced the past year a good crop of corn and potatoes.
Six years ago there were but twenty-three homes and only 300 acres of land under cultivation on the whole reservation; the people were huddled together in ravines and bottom-lands, and were dying of disease and exposure.
While it is largely hilly and mountainous, there is considerable good sheep and cattle pasturing on it, and a fair amount of bottom land for cultivation along the river.
The one hundred and fifteen who are back on the old reservation have a much larger amount of land under cultivation than the whole four hundred who are in Indian Territory.
United States Government now, except that it will protect them in the ownership of their lands,—lands which, in many instances, have been in continuous occupation and cultivation by their ancestors for over one hundred years.
They had "turned their attention to the cultivation of the soil" forty years ago, and that was what came of it.
Maternal vanity set itself against her advances in literature; and it was not till the death of her mother took place, that Miss Mulso, liberated from all impediments, felt herself free to pursue the cultivation of her own understanding.
Remember, that the end of true friendship is the good of its object, and the cultivation of virtue, in two hearts emulous of each other, and desirous to perpetuate their society beyond the grave.
Experiments with the cultivation of our three species of the genus Nyctotherus and of Balantidium entozoon and B.
The cultivationof a parasitic amoeba from the cockroach.
The cultivation of Nyctotherus ovalis and Endamoeba blattae.
From the leaves of Musa textilis, like those of all other species of the banana tribe, very excellent paper can be made, and by the increasing cultivation of the musaceae in the tropics, two main objects could be attained, viz.
At intervals, a number of tablets let into the wall inform the visitor that this edifice is devoted to the instruction of the virtuous, and the cultivation of the endowments.
One most important element in tea cultivation is the method adopted to impart a certain bloom, an artificial fragrance, which it does not possess in the natural state.
In Cuba (as in Luzon) there is but one species of tobacco raised, but more attention seems to be paid to its cultivation in the former island.
But he was ever urged onward by the fascination of learning and of the cultivation of the nobler part of his nature.
His only claim on the generosity of his teacher and of the public was a marked aptitude for learning and an ardent desire for study and cultivation of mind.
It connotes a zest for knowledge that is recondite and attainable only at the expense of ease, of leisure, of the comforts and luxuries of life, and a zeal for the cultivation of the mental faculties.
You may depend on whatever assistance lies in my power; but let me impress upon you that the cultivation which your talents befit you to attain, cannot be reached without strenuous exertions on your own part.
Not a whit inferior in cultivation to myself, he possessed besides a keen analytic sense which I envied, especially as I felt that it did not steel him against ideal considerations.
A few miles above Norfolk the cultivation of land ceases, and the canoeist traverses a wilderness.
The planting of an acre of peach-trees, and its cultivation to maturity, costs from thirty to forty dollars.
Nor would it be possible to find a more fitting spot for the cultivation of love and sentiment than this charming lake affords; for Nature seems to have created Lake George in one of her happiest moments.
Cottrell left his native Virginia in 1854, and commenced the cultivation of the virgin soil of Old Town Hammock.
There they had settled down in a permanent fashion, dwelling in houses of stone, and giving themselves up to the cultivation of the soil.
The same thing is true of the cultivation of science for its own sake.
To these truths the way had been led by John Hunter, whose vigorous and original genius never was directed to the cultivation of any subject without reaping a harvest of discovery.
