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... Husbandry , in two thick quarto volumes , with numerous plates , was published in 1807 ; it is copious to an excess , containing an immense mass of matter , new and old , good and bad . As a diction- ary of Husbandry , it was the best ...
... Husbandry , in two thick quarto volumes , with numerous plates , was published in 1807 ; it is copious to an excess , containing an immense mass of matter , new and old , good and bad . As a diction- ary of Husbandry , it was the best ...
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... husbandry . In most parts of this work , for example , in the words of the title page , " animal and vegetable productions of Agriculture , ” as synonymous with husbandry . In several places as synonymous with aration , that is , the ...
... husbandry . In most parts of this work , for example , in the words of the title page , " animal and vegetable productions of Agriculture , ” as synonymous with husbandry . In several places as synonymous with aration , that is , the ...
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... Husbandry V. Of the Folding of Sheep VI . Of Fatting Sheep and Lambs VII . On the probable Improvement which may be derived from Crosses of the Merino Breed of Sheep Page · 1003 - 1007 1008 VIII . Of the Anatomy and Physiology of Sheep ...
... Husbandry V. Of the Folding of Sheep VI . Of Fatting Sheep and Lambs VII . On the probable Improvement which may be derived from Crosses of the Merino Breed of Sheep Page · 1003 - 1007 1008 VIII . Of the Anatomy and Physiology of Sheep ...
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... husbandry , in the tenth cen- tury preceding our æra . 7. Estimating the value of the writers of antiquity on these principles , they may be con- sidered as reaching back to a period 1600 years before our æra , or nearly 3500 years from ...
... husbandry , in the tenth cen- tury preceding our æra . 7. Estimating the value of the writers of antiquity on these principles , they may be con- sidered as reaching back to a period 1600 years before our æra , or nearly 3500 years from ...
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... Husbandry of the Ancients . To this last work we are indebted for the greater part of what we have to submit on Roman agriculture . 52. The Roman authors , as Rozier has observed ( Dict . de l'Agr . art . Hist . ) , do not enable us to ...
... Husbandry of the Ancients . To this last work we are indebted for the greater part of what we have to submit on Roman agriculture . 52. The Roman authors , as Rozier has observed ( Dict . de l'Agr . art . Hist . ) , do not enable us to ...
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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...