The Dictionary of the FarmG. Routledge & Company, 1855 - 498 páginas |
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acid acre advantage agriculture allowed animal arable arable land ashes barley beans better bones breed bushels carbonic carbonic acid cattle chalk cheese clay common coprolites corn covered cows crop cultivation deep disease drains drill duce dung early earth effect especially expense farm farmer fatten feeding feet fertility fibres field flax furrow grain grass ground grow growth guano harrows hoeing horses humus husbandry improved inches labour laid land light lime loam lucern machine maize manure marl milk mixed mode moisture nature oats pasture peas peat plants plough portion potatoes produce profitable quantity readily roots rows sainfoin salt sand seed sheep silica soil soon South Downs sowing sown spring stack stem straw subsoil substance sufficient surface tares thrashed tillage tion tivation trees turnips vegetable water-meadows weather weeds wheat wheels winter winter tares wool
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Página 14 - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up.
Página 198 - ... alteratives composed of nitre, black antimony, and sulphur, will be very beneficial. Mange is a disease of a different character. It is the curse of the stable into which it enters, for it will almost certainly affect every horse. Thorough dressings with Barbadoes tar and linseed-oil, in the proportion of one of the former to three of the latter, will be the most effectual external application, while alteratives and physic should be given internally.
Página 347 - ... particularly fine at the junction of the head and neck. The neck seeming to project straight from the chest, so that there is, with the slightest possible deviation, one continued horizontal line from the rump to the poll. The...
Página 60 - ... sphagnum, began to luxuriate. This, absorbing a large quantity of water, and continuing to shoot out new plants above, while the old were decaying, rotting, and compressing into a solid substance below, gradually replaced the water by a mass of vegetable matter. In this manner the marsh might be filled up, while the central, or moister portion, continuing to excite a more rapid growth of the moss, it would be...
Página 341 - ... the shoulders to the setting on of the tail ; the loin broad and flat ; the rump long and broad ; and the tail set on high and nearly on a level with the spine ; the hips wide ; the space between them and the last rib on either side as narrow as possible, and the ribs, generally, presenting a circular form like a barrel.
Página 448 - In a few seconds the free acids unite with the bases contained in the earth, and a neutral salt is formed in a very fine state of division.
Página 448 - ... soil does not appear to be a matter of indifference. For the more finely the bones are reduced to powder, and the more intimately they are mixed with the soil, the more easily they are assimilated.
Página 363 - ... constant agitation, but not sufficiently rapid to carry along with it coarse gravel or sand. Wherever there is an obstruction to the current and an eddy is formed, there the soil is deposited in the form of mud, and gradually accumulating, forms those alluvial soils which are so remarkable for their fertility when carefully protected from the inroads of the waters.
Página 102 - The Gruyere and Parmesan cheeses only differ in the nature of the milk, and in the degree of heat given to the curd in different parts of the process. Gruyere cheese is entirely made from new milk, and Parmesan from skimmed milk. In the first nothing is added to give flavour : in the latter saffron gives both colour and flavour: the process in both is exactly similar.
Página 341 - The orbits of the eye — the eye-cap, or bone, — not too projecting, that it may not form a fatal obstacle in lambing. The neck of a medium length, thin towards the head, but enlarging towards the shoulders where it should be broad and high, and straight in...