The Book of the Farm, Volum 1W. Blackwood, 1852 |
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Pàgina xvii
... CATTLE IN WINTER BY THE STEADING , 242 ON THE REARING AND FATTENING OF CATTLE ON TURNIPS IN WINTER , 256 ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF STABLES FOR FARM HORSES , 298 ON THE TREATMENT OF FARM HORSES IN WINTER , 307 ON THE TREATMENT OF THE ...
... CATTLE IN WINTER BY THE STEADING , 242 ON THE REARING AND FATTENING OF CATTLE ON TURNIPS IN WINTER , 256 ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF STABLES FOR FARM HORSES , 298 ON THE TREATMENT OF FARM HORSES IN WINTER , 307 ON THE TREATMENT OF THE ...
Pàgina xvii
... Cattle Probang , 103. The Mouth - Piece for the Cattle · 217 Probang , ib . 104. The Trochar , 218 - 219 105. A Stall for a Work - Horse Stable , 106. A Stall with Cast - Iron Hind- Posts , 222 107. A Stable Window , 108. The Corn ...
... Cattle Probang , 103. The Mouth - Piece for the Cattle · 217 Probang , ib . 104. The Trochar , 218 - 219 105. A Stall for a Work - Horse Stable , 106. A Stall with Cast - Iron Hind- Posts , 222 107. A Stable Window , 108. The Corn ...
Pàgina 9
... cattle and sheep ; and , as natural pasture and hay form the principal food of live - stock in a pastoral country , very little arable culture is there practised for their behoof . Cattle and sheep are not always reared on the same farm ...
... cattle and sheep ; and , as natural pasture and hay form the principal food of live - stock in a pastoral country , very little arable culture is there practised for their behoof . Cattle and sheep are not always reared on the same farm ...
Pàgina 10
... cattle , sheep , and wool , are the staple products of pastoral farming . 36. Pastoral farms are chiefly appropri- ated to the rearing of one kind of sheep , or one kind of cattle ; though both classes of stock are reared where valleys ...
... cattle , sheep , and wool , are the staple products of pastoral farming . 36. Pastoral farms are chiefly appropri- ated to the rearing of one kind of sheep , or one kind of cattle ; though both classes of stock are reared where valleys ...
Pàgina 11
... cattle and sheep to eat the turnips and trample the straw into manure , in winter . Any pas- ture grass is mostly in ... cattle . No sheep are reared in this system , being purchased in autumn , to be fed on turnips in winter , and sold ...
... cattle and sheep to eat the turnips and trample the straw into manure , in winter . Any pas- ture grass is mostly in ... cattle . No sheep are reared in this system , being purchased in autumn , to be fed on turnips in winter , and sold ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 70 - Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air.
Pàgina 69 - The rising vapours catch the silver light: Thence Fancy measures, as they parting fly, Which first will throw its shadow on the eye, Passing the source of light; and thence away, Succeeded quick by brighter still than they.
Pàgina 146 - That wave and glitter in the distant sun. When, if a sudden gust of wind arise, The brittle forest into atoms flies: The crackling wood beneath the tempest bends, And in a spangled shower the prospect ends...
Pàgina 41 - Other combustibles ; it consumes none while idle ; it never tires, and wants no sleep ; it is not subject to malady when originally well made, and only refuses to work when worn out with age ; it is equally active in all climates, and will do work of any kind...
Pàgina 41 - In the present perfect state of the engine, it appears a thing almost endowed with intelligence. It regulates with perfect accuracy and uniformity the number of its strokes in a given time, counting or recording them moreover, to tell how much work it has done, as a clock records the beats of its pendulum ; it regulates the quantity of steam admitted to work ; the briskness of the fire ; the supply of water to the boiler ; the supply of coals to the fire...
Pàgina 148 - After a northerly wind, for the most of two months or more, and then coming south, there are usually three or four fair days at first, and then on the fourth or fifth day comes rain, or else the wind turns north again and continues dry.
Pàgina 111 - Earth, sand, gravel, stones, and other transported matter which has been washed away and thrown down by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas.
Pàgina 500 - March hack ham, comes in like a lion, goes out like a lamb. A bushel of March dust is worth a king's ransom. March grass never did good. A windy March and a rainy April make a beautiful May.
Pàgina 41 - ... originally well made, and only refuses to work when worn out with age ; it is equally active in all climates, and will do work of any kind ; it is a water-pumper, a miner, a sailor, a cottonspinner, a weaver, a blacksmith, a miller, &c.
Pàgina 585 - ... drought, and destitute of all vegetation, except that of a few thistles. A square foot of the dead turf being dug up...