On the Cultivation of Flax: The Fattening of Cattle with Native Produce, Box-feeding and Summer-grazing |
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Page 23 - And the flax and the barley were smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom. 32 But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten: for they were not grown up.
Page 87 - Wand in her hand ; if she observe any of them idle, she reaches them a tap, but if that will not do, she rings a bell, which by a little Cord is fixed to the box, and out comes a Woman, she then points to the...
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Page 68 - Flax was first introduced into England by the Romans. In 1175 it was classed amongst all titheable productions. In 1531 a statute was enacted, requiring that, under certain penalties, " for every sixty acres of land fit for tillage, one rood should be sown with flax and hemp-seed." From that period to 1767 many unsuccessful attempts were made to extend and improve the cultivation and preparation of flax. In the latter year several thousand pounds were proposed to be divided amongst the successful...
Page 132 - ... crushing-machine, and as much as possible forced into some boiling mucilage, containing the same quantity of linseed, but a fourth less of water than would have been prepared for dry barley. It will soon turn sour, but the cattle will not refuse it on that account. Care must be taken lest the sprouts are suffered to grow beyond the prescribed length, or the quality will be materially injured; therefore it will be necessary to destroy their growth by passing the barley through the crusher ; it...
Page 87 - ... there are schools for little girls, from six years old and upwards, to teach them to spin, and so to bring their tender fingers by degrees to spin very fine, which being young are thereby easily fitted for that use.
Page 88 - Thred taken from her, and put into a box ' unto others of the same size, to make Cloth, all being ' of equal Threds. 1st. They raise their Children, as ' they spin finer, to the higher Benches : 2. They sort ' and size all the Threds, so that they can apply them ' to make equal Cloths ; and after a young Maid hath ' been three years in the Spinning- School...
Page 132 - Either potatoes, carrots, turnips, or mangel-wurzel, boiled and incorporated with linseed meal, form a compound upon which cattle fatten with great rapidity. To make it, nothing more is required than to fill the copper with washed potatoes, or carrots, &c., sliced ; supposing the copper would contain eight or nine pails of water, let only one be added. In a few minutes the Fig.