The Farmer's MagazineRogerson and Tuxford, 1850 |
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Página 8 - Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth ; thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
Página 90 - was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own; only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-a-dozen men.
Página 3 - He gives the corn harvest, equally divided into ten parts :— " 1. One part cast forth, for rent due out of hand; 2. One other part, for seed to sow thy land ; 3. Another part, leave parson for his tithe; 4.
Página 125 - ... presenting many indications of antiquity, the city can now boast of as handsome squares, terraces, streets, and houses, all of modern erection, as any other in the kingdom. The principal object of interest is the cathedral, a noble edifice of high antiquity. It is cruciform, 408 feet in length, and consists of a nave, with two side aisles ; two short transepts formed out of two heavy Norman towers, each 130 feet in height ; a choir of the same width as the nave, and 128 feet in length ; 10 chapels...
Página 247 - ... day's diet. After doing up his horses he takes breakfast, which is made of flour with a little butter, and water "from the tea-kettle" poured over it. He takes with him to the field a piece of bread and (if he has not a young WILTS.] ILL PAID LABOUR THE MOST COSTLY.
Página 330 - ... apartment. But years steal on, and the family continues thus bedded together. Some of its members may yet be in their infancy, but others of both sexes have crossed the line of puberty. But there they are, still together in the same room — the father and mother, the sons and the daughters — young men, young women, and children. Cousins, too, of both sexes, are often thrown together into the same room, and not unfrequently into the same bed. I have also known of cases in which uncles slept...
Página 325 - ... whole expression is more that of an animal than of a man. He is wanting, too, in the erect and independent bearing of a man. When you accost him, if he is not insolent — which he seldom is — he is timid and shrinking ; his whole manner showing that he feels himself at a distance from you greater than should separate any two classes of men. He is often doubtful when you address, and suspicious when you question him ; he is seemingly oppressed with the interview, whilst it lasts, and obviously...
Página 315 - ... and in ditches, streamlets, and other places where the change of water renews constantly the supply of dissolved silica. The amount of silicate of potash removed from a meadow in the form of hay is very considerable. We need only call to mind the melted vitreous mass found on a meadow between Manheim and Heidelberg after a thunder-storm. This mass was at first supposed to be a meteor, but was found on examination (by Gmelin) to consist of silicate of potash ; a flash of lightning had struck...
Página 208 - To measure its extent by well-known objects, it is fifteen times as large as that part of the State of New York, west of the county of Oneida — nearly twice as large as the kingdom of France — and about six times as extensive as the whole of England. It contains 180 millions of acres of arable land, a large portion of which is of surpassing fertility.
Página 208 - Atlantic, and they are making prodigious efforts to reach it. Three great canals, (one of them longer than the Erie canal,) embracing in their aggregate length about one thousand miles, are to connect the Ohio with Lake Erie, while another deep and capacious channel, excavated for nearly thirty miles through solid rock, unites Lake Michigan with the navigable waters of the Illinois. In addition to these broad* avenues of trade, they are...