American FarmerJohn S. Skinner, 1866 |
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... taken off , plough and manure for broccoli , cauliflowers , cabbage , turnips and winter greens . ONIONS From seed this season , continue to cultivate , and hoe between the rows , and thin to about three inches apart . Plant , for ...
... taken off , plough and manure for broccoli , cauliflowers , cabbage , turnips and winter greens . ONIONS From seed this season , continue to cultivate , and hoe between the rows , and thin to about three inches apart . Plant , for ...
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... taken into , and completely diffused through the surface soil by the fall rains , so as to be in the best pos- sible condition to be used by the growing plant . At the same time . there can be but very little , if any loss , by the ...
... taken into , and completely diffused through the surface soil by the fall rains , so as to be in the best pos- sible condition to be used by the growing plant . At the same time . there can be but very little , if any loss , by the ...
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... taken as a type of all that is sterile , and all that is most hopeless , and most forbidding of aspect to the husbandman . We quote from Notes taken during a Tour in Belgium , Holland , and on the Rhine , by Scotch farmer : " The ...
... taken as a type of all that is sterile , and all that is most hopeless , and most forbidding of aspect to the husbandman . We quote from Notes taken during a Tour in Belgium , Holland , and on the Rhine , by Scotch farmer : " The ...
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... taken from the stalls . This is beaten down by the passage of the animals , and of the workmen over it , till it is in a thoroughly com- pressed state . This method possesses nearly all the advantages of the " box - feeding " system ...
... taken from the stalls . This is beaten down by the passage of the animals , and of the workmen over it , till it is in a thoroughly com- pressed state . This method possesses nearly all the advantages of the " box - feeding " system ...
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... taken to market . Had they been kept six weeks longer , they would not , upon same feed , have gained over two and a half pounds . In this business no one point demands more attention than the kind of a stallion with which the young ...
... taken to market . Had they been kept six weeks longer , they would not , upon same feed , have gained over two and a half pounds . In this business no one point demands more attention than the kind of a stallion with which the young ...
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Página 300 - And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy...
Página 195 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings, till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant...
Página 21 - Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.
Página 33 - He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children.
Página 100 - I love to lose myself in a mystery, to pursue my reason to an O altitudo!
Página 195 - ... of his wings ; till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over ; and then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing, as if it had learned music and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air, about his ministries here below : so is the prayer of a good man...
Página 197 - That the mighty Pan Was kindly come to live with them below; Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.
Página 195 - ... prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares, and the calm of our tempest; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness...
Página 195 - ... meditation, the rest of our cares, and the calm of our tempest; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts; it is the daughter of Charity, and the sister of Meekness; and he that prays to God...
Página 163 - Let not thy jests, like mummy, be made of dead men's flesh. Abuse not any that are departed ; for to wrong their memories is to rob their ghosts of their winding-sheets. Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. Oh 'tis cruelty to beat a cripple with his own crutches.