Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

identifier question
17672GLADIOLUS utrinque floridus?
43858?_ SAMBUCUS aquatica surculis pinguibus punctatis,& c. Sijo vulgo Adsai et Ansai et Adsiki.
17531where the Painter that has not made it an object of his imitative art?
21843?._ RANUNCULUS pratensis flore multiplici.
21843I would ask-- who ever saw the colour of the leaves or blossoms of the present plant to vary?
21843and, on the contrary, who ever saw its leaves constant in their form?
19123181?_ RANUNCULUS montanus folio gramineo.
25905His land now produces four and a half bushels per acre; what time shall elapse when it shall be four and one half acres per bushel?
25905Is he perfectly sane when he thinks he can skin his farm year after year, and not finally come to the bone?
25905What sane farmer expects to move a heavy load over a rugged road with a team so lean and poverty- stricken that they cast but a faint shadow?
25905Who dare predict that manure will not at some day be of value west of the Alleghanies?
25905Why be contented with thirty bushels of corn per acre, when eighty or one hundred may be had?
25905Why cut but one half- ton of hay per acre, when the laws of nature allow at least three?
25905Why not, then, commence plowing under green crops, the only manure within easy reach?
25905Why raise eight or twelve bushels of wheat per acre, when forty may as well be had?
25905Yet is he much nearer sanity when he expects farming to be pleasant and profitable, and things to_ move aright_, unless his land is strong and fat?
28897Among animals of good blood, are there not always some which are superior to the rest?"
28897And secondly, if they so differ, how have they become thus adapted?
28897But can it be safely maintained that such changed conditions, if acting during a long series of generations, would not produce a marked effect?
28897But is this the case with smaller changes?
28897By what links can the Cochin fowl be closely united with others?
28897Can our prize- cattle and sheep be still further improved?
28897Can this parallelism be accidental?
28897Did He ordain that the crop and tail- feathers of the pigeon should vary in order that the fancier might make his grotesque pouter and fantail breeds?
28897Do you take care about breeding and pairing them?
28897Does it not rather indicate some real bond of connection?
28897How can we account for these facts?
28897How then could these admirably co- ordinated modifications of structure have been acquired?
28897How, again, can we explain to ourselves the inherited effects of the use or disuse of particular organs?
28897Is it an illusion that these recently improved animals safely transmit their excellent qualities even when crossed with other breeds?
28897May not the early closing of a deep wound, as in the case of the extirpation of the scapula, prevent the formation or protrusion of the nascent limb?
28897Now is it possible to conceive external conditions more closely alike than those to which the buds on the same tree are exposed?
28897There are two distinct questions: Do varieties descended from the same species differ in their power of living under different climates?
28897They might ask whether the half- wild Arabs were led by theoretical notions to keep pedigrees of their horses?
28897To recur to our former illustration of the Irish elk, it may be asked what part has suffered in consequence of the immense development of the horns?
28897What would the floriculturist care for any change in the structure of the ovarium or of the ovules?
28897Where can Flora''s Garland be found equal to those at Slough?
28897Where do high- coloured flowers revel better than at Woolwich and Birmingham?
28897Why have pedigrees been scrupulously kept and published of the Shorthorn cattle, and more recently of the Hereford breed?
28897Will a gooseberry ever weigh more than that produced by"London"in 1852?
28897Will a race- horse ever be reared fleeter than Eclipse?
28897Will future varieties of wheat and other grain produce heavier crops than our present varieties?
28897Will the beet- root in France yield a greater percentage of sugar?
28897unicorne, pubes_(_?_), and in two other unnamed species.