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Página 18 - Thus I was ; in the day the -drought consumed me, and the frost by night ; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
Página 8 - Thus, the Washington Elm at Cambridge — a tree of no extraordinary size — was some years ago estimated to produce a crop of seven millions of leaves, exposing a surface of 200,000 square feet, or about five acres, of foliage.
Página 46 - ... for the care and keeping of such animal, and without paying any other charges; and the person committing such willful act shall be liable to a penalty of twenty dollars, to be recovered in an action at law at the suit of the owner of such animal, or the person making such seizure.
Página 177 - ... of analytical trials will not be amply repaid by the certainty with which they denote the best methods of melioration; and this will particularly happen, when the defect of composition is found in the proportions of the primitive earths. In supplying...
Página 85 - Towcester, who has the pedigree of his sheep from the day of Bakewell in 1783 to the present time, and since 1810 he has bred entirely from his own flock, sire and dam, without an interchange of male or female from any other flock. He observes, " that his flock being bred from the nearest affinities — commonly called in-and-in breeding— has not experienced any of the ill effects ascribed to the practice.
Página 175 - ... treatise on the hop, condensed from various sources — an analysis of the plant, the best mode of cultivation, gathering, etc. As the raising of the hop is of great importance, I would refer cultivators to this article. It is said to be one of the very most exhausting among cultivated plants, both in respect to the organic and mineral constituents which it extracts from the soil ; so that valleys containing the debris of the surrounding country should be selected. See, also, Wilson's llural...
Página 37 - That if the owner, of any bull, stallion, boar or ram shall allow the same io go at large out of his enclosure, he shall forfeit the sum of five dollars for such offense, to be recovered on complaint before any justice of the peace of the county in which such owner may live, and twice that amount on any subsequent conviction...
Página 46 - ... care and keeping of such animal, to be estimated and fixed by such justice or commissioner, and upon making to such justice or commissioner satisfactory proof of ownership. And if such owner shall make such demand and proof at least three days before the time appointed for such sale, he shall be entitled to the custody and possession of such animal, upon paying one-half of the several sums above mentioned, together with the whole amount of compensation awarded by the said justice or commissioner.
Página 5 - I greatly doubt whether any one of the American States, except, perhaps, Oregon, has at this moment more woodland than it ought permanently to preserve, though no doubt a different distribution of the forests in all of them might be highly advantageous.
Página 83 - Bakewell had certainly the merit of destroying the absurd prejudice which formerly prevailed against breeding from animals between whom there was any degree of relationship : had this opinion been universally acted upon, no one could have been said to be possessed of a particular breed, good or bad ; for the produce of one year would have been dissimilar to that of another, and we should have availed ourselves but little of an animal of superior merit that we might have had the good fortune t