The Illustrated Annual Register of Rural Affairs and Cultivator Almanac for the Year ..., Volúmenes 1-3John J. Thomas L. Tucker, 1855 |
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Página 385 - Its dimensions are 18^ inches diameter inside, 19^ inches outside, and 8 inches deep ; and when heaped, the cone must not be less than 6 inches high, equal to 2747.715 cubic inches for a true cone.
Página 39 - In what one imaginable attribute, that it ought to possess, is a Tree, pray, deficient? Light, shade, shelter, coolness, freshness, music, all the colours of the rainbow, dew and dreams dropping through their umbrageous twilight at eve or morn, — dropping direct, — soft, sweet, soothing, and restorative, from heaven.
Página 412 - When the slaking has been effected, dissolve it in water, and add two pounds of sulphate of zinc, and one of common salt. These will cause the wash to harden, and prevent its cracking, which gives an unseemly appearance to the work. If desirable, a beautiful cream color may be communicated to the above wash, by adding three pounds of yellow ochre ; or a good pearl or lead color, by the...
Página 230 - of all that can be said in grape culture respecting soil, is that it be dry and light, deep and rich." A dry bottom is highly essential; hence a bed of stones, shells and bones, eighteen inches beneath the surface, has been very useful. The manure must be in some degree adapted to the nature of the soil, but generally, vegetable mould or muck, with a portion of ashes intermixed, as already prescribed for fruit trees, is one of the very best.
Página 316 - Hence the kitchen and living room should receive more attention on the ground of convenience, than the parlor. 5. Every entrance, except to the kitchen, should be through some entry or hall, to prevent the abrupt ingress of cold air, and for proper seclusion. 6. Let the entry or hall be near the center...
Página 236 - At least three or four times every week, they should be well syringed with water, which, when the weather is cool, should always be done in the morning. And every day the vine border should be duly supplied with water. During the time when the vines are in blossom, and while the fruit is setting, all sprinkling or syringing over the leaves must be suspended, and the house should be kept a little more closed and warm than usual, and should any indications of mildew appear on any of the branches, it...
Página 267 - To hoe this land, he says, will cost 6s. (sterling) per acre, and hence a man throws away 5s. 3d. a time, as often as he neglects to bend his back to pull up a young weed before it begins to fulfil the first law of nature. He recommends every...
Página 259 - ... chapter complete, the very same afternoon, the village being full of strangers, we saw several young girls, elegantly flounced, put their hands through the railing of another garden, facing the street, and help themselves in the same easy manner to their neighbor's prettiest flowers: what would they have thought if some one had stepped up with a pair of scissors and cut half a yard from the ribbon on their hats, merely because it was pretty, and one had a fancy for it? Neither the little girl...
Página 85 - ... finer breeds do give a greater product with the same amount of food than the inferior and coarser breeds. It costs but little if any more to keep a cow that will give a large quantity of rich milk than one that does not pay for her food ; strong, active horses are far more profitable than poor, lazy ones ; a bushel of corn will make twice as much pork when fed to a Berkshire or a Suffolk as to a LandPike or Racer, and the best sheep will yield double the wool and bring triple the price of the...
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