Letters and Papers on Agriculture, Planting, &c., Selected from the Correspondence of the Bath and West of England Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Volume 1R. Cruttwell, 1802 - Agriculture |
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Common terms and phrases
acre agriculture alfo almoſt alſo anſwer arable arable land barley beans becauſe beft beſt breed bufhels butter cattle cauſe cheeſe cloſe clover confiderable corn courſe cows crop cultivated dairy deſtroyed diſeaſe diſtance diſtrict drilled dung ears earth eſpecially expence experiment facks faid falt fame farm farmer fecond feed feems feet feven fheep fhillings fhould field firſt fituations fize fmall fmut foil fome fometimes foon fown fpring ftrong fubject fuch fufficient fummer fuppofed furface grafs grains graſs greateſt ground half harrowed hoeing horfes horſe-hoed horſes huſbandry inches increaſe laft land laſt leaſt lefs leſs loam manure meadows meaſure milk moft moſt muſt neceffary oats obferved occafion paſture plants plough poffible potatoes pounds produce purpoſe quantity raiſed reſpect ridges roots rows ſeaſon ſeems ſheep ſmall ſmutty ſome ſtate ſtock thefe theſe thofe thoſe turnips ufually uſed vegetation water meadows weeds wheat wool
Popular passages
Page 241 - It was now ftirred up, and left to ftand a fhort time, tor the whey to feparate a little from the curd. Part of the whey was then taken out, and the copper again turned over a fire fufficiently brifk to give a ftrongifh heat, but below that of boiling.
Page 240 - At ten o'clock in the morning, five brents and a half of milk, each brent being about forty-eight quarts, was put into a large copper, which turned on a crane, over a flow wood-fire, made about two feet below the furface of the ground. The milk was ftirred from time to time; and, about eleven o'clock, when juft...
Page 218 - And as it will thrive fo well on a very poor foil, the arable farmer, who either keeps no cows for want of herbage, or keeping them is pinched for food for them, is...
Page 223 - Thick milk always throws up a much smaller proportion of the cream which it actually contains than milk that is thinner, but the cream is of a richer quality ; and if water be added to that thick milk, it will afford a considerably greater quantity of cream, and consequently more butter, than it would have done if allowed to remain pure ; but its quality at the same time is greatly deteriorated.
Page 239 - But firft, before the curd is put in, a cheefe-cloth or ftrainer fhould be laid at the bottom of the vat, and this fhould be fo large, that when the vat is filled with the curd, the ends of the cloth may turn again over the top of it. When this is done, it...
Page 114 - March and the twelfth of April, produced five hundred plants. They were then divided no further, but permitted to remain. The plants were, in general, ftronger than any of the wheat in the fields. Some of them produced upwards of an hundred ears from a fmgle root. Many of the ears mea-' fured feven inches in length, and contained between fixty and fèventy grains.
Page 222 - ... to the quantity or the quality of the cream. The milk in the first cup was a thin bluish liquid...
Page 42 - The hours of feeding are ufually from ten or eleven o'clock in the morning to about four or five in the evening, when the fheep are driven to fold; the fold being generally at that time of the year (as has been mentioned before) on the barley fallow.
Page 18 - That all children of abdve seven years old may be presented to this kind of education, none being to be excluded by reason of the poverty and inability of their parents ; for hereby it hath come to pass, that many are now holding the plough, which might have been made fit to steer the state.
Page 241 - ... to fall to the bottom. Part of the whey was taken out, and the curd brought up in a coarfe cloth, hanging together in a tough ftate.