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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... covered with water forty days , did not , in the most favourable seasons , yield more than ten for one ; and that those lands which the water covered only five days , seldom gave more than four for one . This , however , is probably ...
... covered with water forty days , did not , in the most favourable seasons , yield more than ten for one ; and that those lands which the water covered only five days , seldom gave more than four for one . This , however , is probably ...
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... covered with trees and grass . ( Col. , lib . ii . cap . 2 .; Pallad . , lib . i . cap . 5. ) The situation of lands which Cato reckons the best , is at the foot of a mountain with a south exposure . Varro and Pliny concur in this ...
... covered with trees and grass . ( Col. , lib . ii . cap . 2 .; Pallad . , lib . i . cap . 5. ) The situation of lands which Cato reckons the best , is at the foot of a mountain with a south exposure . Varro and Pliny concur in this ...
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... covered it in Italy , they were aware , as Varro and others inform us , of its use . " When I marched an army , " says Varro , " to the Rhine , in Transalpine Gaul , I passed through some countries where I saw the fields manured with ...
... covered it in Italy , they were aware , as Varro and others inform us , of its use . " When I marched an army , " says Varro , " to the Rhine , in Transalpine Gaul , I passed through some countries where I saw the fields manured with ...
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... covered with earth . " Lupines were not sarcled at all , " because so far from being infested with weeds , they destroy them . " Horse - hoeing was also practised , the origin of which is thus given by Pliny : — “ We must not omit ...
... covered with earth . " Lupines were not sarcled at all , " because so far from being infested with weeds , they destroy them . " Horse - hoeing was also practised , the origin of which is thus given by Pliny : — “ We must not omit ...
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... covered with tiled roofs . The excavations are lined with straw ; one holds from twenty to a hundred sacks , and being covered with straw , is heaped over with earth . In this way it is kept in perfect pre- servation a year or longer ...
... covered with tiled roofs . The excavations are lined with straw ; one holds from twenty to a hundred sacks , and being covered with straw , is heaped over with earth . In this way it is kept in perfect pre- servation a year or longer ...
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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...