The Book of the Farm, Volum 1W. Blackwood, 1852 |
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Pàgina xvii
... Drill 414 Machine , ib . 206. Slight's new Lever - Drill Sowing ib . 415 ib . 207. The Wooden Rhomboidal Har- rows ... Drills , 419 215. Kirkwood's Grubber , 168. The Imperial Bushel of a conve- nient Form , 216. The Ducie Cultivator ...
... Drill 414 Machine , ib . 206. Slight's new Lever - Drill Sowing ib . 415 ib . 207. The Wooden Rhomboidal Har- rows ... Drills , 419 215. Kirkwood's Grubber , 168. The Imperial Bushel of a conve- nient Form , 216. The Ducie Cultivator ...
Pàgina 171
... drills , each of which occupy areas of similar breadth . Ridges are com- posed of furrow - slices ( fig . 17 ) laid beside and parallel to one another , by the going and returning of the plough from one side of the field to the other ...
... drills , each of which occupy areas of similar breadth . Ridges are com- posed of furrow - slices ( fig . 17 ) laid beside and parallel to one another , by the going and returning of the plough from one side of the field to the other ...
Pàgina 175
... drills for turnips on stronger soils , and are much practised in ploughing land for barley after turnips . But when the land for barley after turnips is to be twice ploughed , and it is inconvenient to cross - furrow the land , - which ...
... drills for turnips on stronger soils , and are much practised in ploughing land for barley after turnips . But when the land for barley after turnips is to be twice ploughed , and it is inconvenient to cross - furrow the land , - which ...
Pàgina 189
... to allow the sheep to get as many turnips as 菜菜榨菜味 and thus every alternate 2 drills left PULLING OF TURNIPS . 189 ON PULLING AND STORING TURNIPS, MANGOLD-WURTZEL, CARROTS, PARSNIPS, AND CABBAGE, FOR CONSUMPTION IN WINTER,
... to allow the sheep to get as many turnips as 菜菜榨菜味 and thus every alternate 2 drills left PULLING OF TURNIPS . 189 ON PULLING AND STORING TURNIPS, MANGOLD-WURTZEL, CARROTS, PARSNIPS, AND CABBAGE, FOR CONSUMPTION IN WINTER,
Pàgina 190
... drills a and taking away 2 drills b ; or by taking away 3 drills e and leaving 3 drills f ; or by taking away 6 drills i and leaving 6 drills h ; or by taking away 1 drill and leaving 1 drill k . Though the same result is at- tained in ...
... drills a and taking away 2 drills b ; or by taking away 3 drills e and leaving 3 drills f ; or by taking away 6 drills i and leaving 6 drills h ; or by taking away 1 drill and leaving 1 drill k . Though the same result is at- tained in ...
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The Book of the Farm: Detailing the Labors of the Farmer, Farm ..., Volum 1 Henry Stephens Visualització completa - 1844 |
The Book of the Farm: Detailing the Labors of the Farmer, Farm ..., Volum 1 Henry Stephens Visualització completa - 1844 |
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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...