The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, Volume 6C. Potter, Government Printer, 1895 - Agriculture |
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Page 481 - ... of the large amount of nitrogen which they contain, and of the large amount which they frequently leave as nitrogenous residue in the soil for future crops, is due to the fixation of free nitrogen, brought into combination by the agency of lower organisms.
Page 693 - is a gross, stingless bee, that spendeth his time in gluttony and idleness. For howsoever he brave it with his round velvet cap, his side gown, his full paunch, and his loud voice, yet he is but an idle companion, living by the sweat of others
Page 12 - Shores of Europe and North Africa. Dr. George Vasey also states that it grows on sandy beaches of the Atlantic, at least as far south as North Carolina and on the shores of the Great Lakes, but so far it has not been recorded from the Pacific Coast. It is, however, not indigenous to the United States, though from the account which has been given of Cape Cod Harbour it will bo seen that it has been thoroughly acclimatised on the American continent.
Page 710 - ... springing from each other ; light in the withers, resting on a shoulder a little retiring and spreading, and so rounded below as to sink all appearance of its pinion in the body of the animal ; open bosom with a deep chest or keel; small and tapering below the knee ; fine at and above the joint, and where the arm begins to increase it becomes suddenly lost in the shoulder; line of the back straight from the...
Page 487 - ... specimens of the fluke, and it is certain that every mature entozoon will contain many thousands of minute eggs. 3. The escaped flukes do not exhibit powers of locomotion sufficient to prove them capable of...
Page 124 - straight and broad in the back, and nearly level from the head to the rump. They are round in the ribs, and also between the shoulders and the ribs, and the ribs and the loins. They are broad in the loins, without large projecting hook (hip) bones.
Page 693 - ... brows. He worketh not at all, either at home or abroad ; and yet spendeth as much as two laborers ; you shall never find his maw without a good drop of the purest nectar. In the heat of the day he flieth abroad, aloft, and about, and that with no small noise, as though he would do some great act. But it is only for his pleasure, and to get him a stomach, and then he returns presently to his cheer.
Page 9 - A farmer, of much practical knowledge of this subject, says : " Since the cattle have been kept from the beaches, by the act of the Legislature of 1826, the grass and shrubs have sprung up of their own accord, and have, in a great measure, in the westerly part of the Cape, accomplished what was intended to be done by planting grass. It is of no use to plant grass on the high parts of the beach. Plant on the lowest parts and they will raise, while the highest places, over which the grass will spread,...
Page 8 - ... vessels at once, — owe their preservation to this grass. To an inhabitant of an inland country, it is difficult to conceive the extent and the violence with which the sands at the extremity of Cape Cod are thrown up from the depths of the sea, and left on the beach in thousands of tons, by every driving storm. These sand-hills, when dried by the sun, are hurled by the winds into the harbor and upon the town.
Page 125 - America having adopted no scale of points for judging animals of the breed, the following "standard description" is published instead, being taken from the introduction to Volume I of the Red Polls Herd Book.] ESSENTIALS. Color, red. The tip of the tail and udder may be white. The extension of the white of the udder a few inches along the inside of the flank, or a small white spot, or mark, on the under part of the belly by the milk veins, shall not be held to disqualify an animal whoso sire and...