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... Breed of Sheep Page · 1003 - 1007 1008 VIII . Of the Anatomy and Physiology of Sheep - 1010 - 1012 ib . - 946 - .947 ... Breeding and Rearing of Swine III . Of Fattening Swine - 1016 - 1018 - 1019 IV . Of curing Pork and Bacon - 1020 V ...
... Breed of Sheep Page · 1003 - 1007 1008 VIII . Of the Anatomy and Physiology of Sheep - 1010 - 1012 ib . - 946 - .947 ... Breeding and Rearing of Swine III . Of Fattening Swine - 1016 - 1018 - 1019 IV . Of curing Pork and Bacon - 1020 V ...
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... breed mules , a young jack ass is put under a mare when he is foaled , and being reared with her is admitted to her the third year ; nor does he despise the mare on ac- count of former habits . If you admit him younger he soon gets old ...
... breed mules , a young jack ass is put under a mare when he is foaled , and being reared with her is admitted to her the third year ; nor does he despise the mare on ac- count of former habits . If you admit him younger he soon gets old ...
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... breeding of horses was now much encouraged . To the passion of the age , and the predilection of the monarch for splendid tournaments , may be attributed the attention bestowed on a breed of horses of a strength and stature adapted to ...
... breeding of horses was now much encouraged . To the passion of the age , and the predilection of the monarch for splendid tournaments , may be attributed the attention bestowed on a breed of horses of a strength and stature adapted to ...
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... breed of horses in England ; but during the reign of Elizabeth it was found necessary to lower the standard appointed by Henry VIII . for stallions , from fourteen hands to thirteen . This modification , how- ever , was only to take ...
... breed of horses in England ; but during the reign of Elizabeth it was found necessary to lower the standard appointed by Henry VIII . for stallions , from fourteen hands to thirteen . This modification , how- ever , was only to take ...
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... breeding , and for the sale of their calves and heifers ; two thousand swine , which are fatted by nuts and acorns in the ... breed , which produces a white wool , but only on the upper part of the body . As mutton is not good , and but ...
... breeding , and for the sale of their calves and heifers ; two thousand swine , which are fatted by nuts and acorns in the ... breed , which produces a white wool , but only on the upper part of the body . As mutton is not good , and but ...
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Página 47 - My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine.
Página vi - ENCYCLOPAEDIA of AGRICULTURE: comprising the Laying-out, Improvement, and Management of Landed Property, and the Cultivation and Economy of the Productions of Agriculture. With 1,100 Woodcuts. 8vo.
Página vi - Improvement, and Management of Landed Property, and the Cultivation and Economy of the Animal and Vegetable Productions of Agriculture, including all the latest Improvements. A general History of Agriculture in all Countries, and a Statistical View of its present State, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles.
Página 15 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, Till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land...
Página 317 - It should be collected in dry weather, and exposed to the atmosphere till it becomes dry to the touch. The specific gravity of a soil, or the relation of its weight to that of water, may be ascertained by introducing into a phial, which will contain a known quantity of water, equal volumes of water and of soil, and this may be easily done by pouring in water till it is half full, and then adding the soil till the fluid rises i*s to the mouth ; the difference between the weight of the soil and that...
Página 47 - ... rent lying by him, therewith to purchase a new lease, beside a fair garnish of pewter on his cupboard, with so much more in odd...
Página 342 - Magnesia has a much weaker attraction for carbonic acid than lime, and will remain in the state of caustic or calcined magnesia for many months, though exposed to the air. And as long as any caustic lime remains, the magnesia cannot. be combined with carbonic acid, for lime instantly attracts carbonic acid from magnesia.
Página 15 - Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground ? When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rye in their place ? For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
Página 349 - I found that corn sprouted much more rapidly in water positively electrified by the Voltaic instrument than in water negatively electrified ; and experiments made upon the atmosphere show that clouds are usually negative ; and as, when a cloud is in one state of electricity, the surface of the earth beneath is brought into the opposite state, it is probable that in common cases the surface of the earth is positive.
Página 332 - All green succulent plants contain saccharine or mucilaginous matter, with woody fibre, and readily ferment. They cannot, therefore, if intended for manure, be used too soon after their death. When green crops are to be employed for enriching a soil, they should be ploughed in, if it be possible, when in flower, or at the time the flower is beginning to appear, for it is at this period that they contain the largest quantity of easily soluble...