ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND.1842 |
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Página 46 - There is no profession which can be compared in importance with that of agriculture, for to it belongs the production of food for man and animals ; on it depends the welfare and development of the whole human species, the riches of states, and all commerce. There is no other profession in which the application of correct principles is productive of more beneficial effects, or is of greater and more decided influence.
Página xxxix - Twenty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given to the Exhibitor at the...
Página 429 - If we were to go naked, like certain savage tribes, or if in hunting or fishing we were exposed to the same degree of cold as the Samoyedes, we should be able with ease to consume 10 Ibs.
Página 47 - ... growth during many years ; but it must gradually become exhausted unless those alkalies which have been removed are again replaced; a period, therefore, will arrive, when it will be necessary to expose it, from time to time, to a further disintegration, in order to obtain a new supply of soluble alkalies, for small as is the quantity of alkali which plants require, it is nevertheless quite indispensable for their perfect development. But when one or more years have elapsed without any alkalies...
Página 259 - The stables, the cows, and even the litter, are kept so clean that it is a pleasure to walk through them ; and the family often make one end of the cow-house their usual sitting-room, having a fireplace at one end, and always at least one comfortable bed for a labourer or servant, who always sleeps in the cow-house. The arrangement of a Dutch dairy is well known, and has been copied wherever any pleasure is taken in having fine and clean cows.
Página viii - If upon an attorney, it may be made during his absence from his office, by leaving the notice or other papers with his clerk therein, or with a person having charge thereof; or when there is no person in the office, by leaving them between the hours of eight in the morning and six in the afternoon...
Página 47 - It is the greatest possible mistake to suppose that the temporary diminution of fertility in a soil is owing to the loss of humus ; it is the mere consequence of the exhaustion of the alkalies.
Página 54 - Reaumur has proved that in five generations one Aphis may be the progenitor of 5,904,900,000 descendants; and it is supposed that in one year there may be twenty generations.
Página 29 - I have seen a fanning tenant (a leaseholder) removing twelve inches of trap soil from the entire surface of a field, for the purpose of spreading a layer of an inch in depth over twelve times the area in another part of his farm.
Página 129 - Russia, is constantly cut into by the ravines, called " avrachs " or " baltas " by the Russians, and which invariably show it to be the uppermost deposit. These ravines have been mentioned in a former communication ; but the attention of English geologists cannot be too frequently called to them, as the rapidity with which they are laid open after the ground has once begun to yawn, is something quite surprising to those who have been accustomed only to survey the trodden tracts of Europe and other...