New American Farm BookOrange Judd Company, 1871 - 526 páginas |
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Página 422 - The ribs coming out horizontally from the spine and extending far backward, and the last rib projecting more than the others; the back flat from the shoulders to the setting on of the tail ; the loin broad and flat ; the rump long and broad ; and the tail set on high and nearly on a level with the spine ; the hips wide ; the space between them and the last rib on either side as narrow as possible, and the ribs, generally, presenting a circular form like a barrel.
Página 23 - ... described. By this admixture of sand, its parts are mechanically separated, and hence its freer and more friable nature. 4°. A loamy soil deposits from 30. to 60 per cent, of sand by mechanical washing. 5°. A sandy loam leaves from 60 to 90 per cent, of sand, and 6°. A sandy soil contains no more than 10 per cent, of pure clay. The mode of examining with the view of naming^ soils, as above, is Very simple. It is only necessary to spread a weighed quantity of the soil in a thin layer upon writing...
Página 283 - When the kiln is filled, take six or eight small kettles or hand-furnaces, and place them four or five feet apart on the floor, (first securing it from fire with bricks or stones,) and make fires in them with charcoal, being careful not to make any of the fires so large as to scorch the madder over them. A person must be in constant attendance to watch and replenish the fires. The heat will ascend through the whole, and in ten or twelve hours it will all be sufficiently dried, which is known by its...
Página 422 - The fore-legs straight from the breast to the foot ; not bending inward at the knee, and standing far apart both before and behind ; the hocks having a direction rather outward, and the twist, or the meeting of the thighs behind, being particularly full ; the bones fine, yet having no appearance of weakness, and of a speckled or dark color.
Página 23 - ... until the fine clay is beginning to settle also. This point must be carefully watched, the liquid then poured off, the sand collected, dried as before upon paper, and again weighed. This weight is the quantity of sand in the known weight of moist soil, which by the previous experiment has been found to contain a certain quantity of water.
Página 460 - He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
Página 24 - Pour off the clear liquor in the morning and fill up the vessel with water, to wash away the excess of acid. "When the water is again clear, pour it off, dry the soil and weigh it — the loss will amount generally to about one per cent, more than the quantity of lime present.