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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... Agriculture, Including All the Latest Improvements; a Gene John Claudius Loudon. PREFACE . S493 L8 THE subject of Agriculture admits of two grand divisions ; the improvement and general management of landed property , which may be termed ...
... Agriculture, Including All the Latest Improvements; a Gene John Claudius Loudon. PREFACE . S493 L8 THE subject of Agriculture admits of two grand divisions ; the improvement and general management of landed property , which may be termed ...
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... Agriculture, Including All the Latest Improvements; a Gene John Claudius Loudon. Cormack , Sons , and Sinclair , nursery and seeds- men , Newcross , London . Various corrections and suggestions . Snowden and Co. , agricultural implement ...
... Agriculture, Including All the Latest Improvements; a Gene John Claudius Loudon. Cormack , Sons , and Sinclair , nursery and seeds- men , Newcross , London . Various corrections and suggestions . Snowden and Co. , agricultural implement ...
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... Agriculture, Including All the Latest Improvements; a Gene John Claudius Loudon. LIST OF BOOKS REFERRED TO , THE ... Agriculture appliquée , & c . p . 521. See Chaptal . Agriculture appliquée à Chimie , p . 322. See Chaptal . Agr . Chim ...
... Agriculture, Including All the Latest Improvements; a Gene John Claudius Loudon. LIST OF BOOKS REFERRED TO , THE ... Agriculture appliquée , & c . p . 521. See Chaptal . Agriculture appliquée à Chimie , p . 322. See Chaptal . Agr . Chim ...
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... Agriculture of the County of Somerset , with observations on the means of its improve . ment ; drawn up for the Board of Agriculture , in the year 1795. Bath , 1798. 8vo . Birkbeck , p . 63. Notes in a Journey in America , from the ...
... Agriculture of the County of Somerset , with observations on the means of its improve . ment ; drawn up for the Board of Agriculture , in the year 1795. Bath , 1798. 8vo . Birkbeck , p . 63. Notes in a Journey in America , from the ...
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... Agriculture, Including All the Latest Improvements; a Gene John Claudius Loudon. Coote's Survey of Monaghan , p . 1204. Dublin , 1801 . 8vo . Coote's Survey of Armagh , p . 1905. Dublin , 1804 . 8vo . Cours , & c . , p . 739. Nouveau ...
... Agriculture, Including All the Latest Improvements; a Gene John Claudius Loudon. Coote's Survey of Monaghan , p . 1204. Dublin , 1801 . 8vo . Coote's Survey of Armagh , p . 1905. Dublin , 1804 . 8vo . Cours , & c . , p . 739. Nouveau ...
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Page 10 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page iii - 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 xiv - HORTUS GRAMINEUS WOBURNENSIS : Or, an Account of the Results of Experiments on the Produce and Nutritive Qualities of different Grasses, and other Plants, used as the Food of the more valuable Domestic Animals : instituted by John Duke of Bedford.
Page 351 - I had often, in the pride of half-knowledge, smiled 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...
Page 10 - Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground ? When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rye in their place ? For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
Page 130 - 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 318 - The specific gravity of a soil, or the relation of its weight to that of water, may be ascertained by introducing into a phial, which will contain a known quantity of water, equal volumes of water and of soil ; and this may be easily done by pouring in water till it is half full, and then adding the soil till the fluid rises to the mouth ; the difference between the weight of the soil and that of the water will give the result.
Page 44 - 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 192 - They plait and twist willows and roots of marsh plants or other materials together, which are light, but capable of supporting the earth of the garden firmly united. Upon this foundation they lay the light bushes which float on the lake ; and over all, the mud and dirt which they draw up from the bottom of the same lake.
Page 303 - The improvement depends on this principle, that the power of the female to supply her offspring with nourishment is in proportion to her size, and to the power of nourishing herself from the excellence of her constitution. The size of the...