An Encyclopædia of Agriculture: Comprising the Theory and Practice of the Valuation, Transfer, Laying Out, 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 |
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... height could be turned out on commons , forests , & c . for fear of diminishing the breed . Harrison extols the height and strength of the English draught - horses ; five or six of them , he says , will with ease draw three thousand ...
... height could be turned out on commons , forests , & c . for fear of diminishing the breed . Harrison extols the height and strength of the English draught - horses ; five or six of them , he says , will with ease draw three thousand ...
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... height . The trees are cut down during summer and laid in the then dry bed of the stream : with the first heavy rains in autumn they are set in motion , and go thundering down among the rocks to the vallies , where what arrives sound is ...
... height . The trees are cut down during summer and laid in the then dry bed of the stream : with the first heavy rains in autumn they are set in motion , and go thundering down among the rocks to the vallies , where what arrives sound is ...
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... height of twelve feet , at which elevation an open floor of joists , supported by wooden pillars , is extended over the entire area of the barn , and is re- peated at every five feet in height , to the top . Each floor is braced from ...
... height of twelve feet , at which elevation an open floor of joists , supported by wooden pillars , is extended over the entire area of the barn , and is re- peated at every five feet in height , to the top . Each floor is braced from ...
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... height , thirty feet in the base , and ten feet across the top : the land which has been reclaimed by it , was let for a sheep pasturage at 600 francs ( 251. ) per annum , and was thrown up by the farmer as untenable . Upon being dried ...
... height , thirty feet in the base , and ten feet across the top : the land which has been reclaimed by it , was let for a sheep pasturage at 600 francs ( 251. ) per annum , and was thrown up by the farmer as untenable . Upon being dried ...
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... height , which seldom exceeds twelve or fourteen inches . The crop is of course a light one , but is considered of great value , both as supplying a certain quantum of provender at very little cost , and as being the best food for milch ...
... height , which seldom exceeds twelve or fourteen inches . The crop is of course a light one , but is considered of great value , both as supplying a certain quantum of provender at very little cost , and as being the best food for milch ...
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Page 344 - ... at the means frequently employed by gardeners to protect tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible that a thin mat, or any such flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had learned that bodies on the surface of the earth become, during a still and serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their heat to the heavens, I perceived immediately a just reason for...
Page 10 - Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains; husbandmen also, and vinedressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
Page 42 - My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the 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...
Page i - 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.
Page 128 - He also quoted some evidence in support of the view that the disease occurred at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century in Germany and more definite evidence that it occurred in Upper Italy and Hungary in 1890.
Page 10 - And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers : and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech. And, behold, Boaz came from Beth-lehem, and said unto the reapers, The Lord be with you.
Page 10 - 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...
Page 338 - ... to their carbon and oxygen so as to become mild lime, or it combines with the soluble matters, and forms compounds, having less attraction for water than the pure vegetable substance. The case is the same with respect to most animal manures ; but the operation of the lime is different in different cases, and depends upon the nature of the animal matter.
Page 45 - The ordinary country houses are pitiful cots, built of stone, and covered with turves, having in them but one room, many of them no chimneys, the windows very small holes and not glazed.
Page 10 - For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.