The Book of the Farm, Volum 1W. Blackwood, 1852 |
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Pàgina 4
... never acquire foresight , because they never reflect , and therefore never derive the greatest advantage from their expe- rience . Conducting a farm by foresight is thus a higher acquirement than the most intimate knowledge of the ...
... never acquire foresight , because they never reflect , and therefore never derive the greatest advantage from their expe- rience . Conducting a farm by foresight is thus a higher acquirement than the most intimate knowledge of the ...
Pàgina 7
... never acquire a knowledge of fattening and computing the value of live stock . 25. By steadily pursuing the course of observation I have indicated , and particu- larly in the first year , the pupil will soon acquire a considerable ...
... never acquire a knowledge of fattening and computing the value of live stock . 25. By steadily pursuing the course of observation I have indicated , and particu- larly in the first year , the pupil will soon acquire a considerable ...
Pàgina 8
... never be said to have been pupils , as , by the time they are fit to act for themselves , they are proficients in farming . Having myself , for a time , been placed precisely in the position of the first description of pupils , I can ...
... never be said to have been pupils , as , by the time they are fit to act for themselves , they are proficients in farming . Having myself , for a time , been placed precisely in the position of the first description of pupils , I can ...
Pàgina 13
... never have to bewail the almost total destruction of his stock by the rot , or the severe storms of winter , as the pastoral farmer sometimes has . He can- not suffer so serious a loss as the carse farmer , when his grain is blighted or ...
... never have to bewail the almost total destruction of his stock by the rot , or the severe storms of winter , as the pastoral farmer sometimes has . He can- not suffer so serious a loss as the carse farmer , when his grain is blighted or ...
Pàgina 14
... never be idle . He should deliver the daily allowance of corn to the horses . He should be the first person out of bed in the morning , and the last in it at night . He should sow the seed - corn in spring , superintend the field ...
... never be idle . He should deliver the daily allowance of corn to the horses . He should be the first person out of bed in the morning , and the last in it at night . He should sow the seed - corn in spring , superintend the field ...
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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...