The Book of the Farm, Volum 1W. Blackwood, 1852 |
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Pàgina xvii
... TURNIPS , MANGOLD - WURTZEL , CARROTS , PARSNIPS , AND CABBAGE , FOR CONSUMPTION IN WINTER , 189 ON THE VARIETIES OF TURNIPS CULTIVATED , 197 ON THE FEEDING OF SHEEP ON TURNIPS IN WINTER , 208 ON THE ACCOMMODATION AFFORDED TO CATTLE IN ...
... TURNIPS , MANGOLD - WURTZEL , CARROTS , PARSNIPS , AND CABBAGE , FOR CONSUMPTION IN WINTER , 189 ON THE VARIETIES OF TURNIPS CULTIVATED , 197 ON THE FEEDING OF SHEEP ON TURNIPS IN WINTER , 208 ON THE ACCOMMODATION AFFORDED TO CATTLE IN ...
Pàgina xvii
... Turnip Trimming - knife , 19. Mode of Feering Ridges , ib . 36. Topping and tailing Turnips , 20. Gathering - up Ridges from the 37. Triangular Turnip - Store , Flat , 174 38. White Globe Turnip . - The Purple 21. An Open Furrow with ...
... Turnip Trimming - knife , 19. Mode of Feering Ridges , ib . 36. Topping and tailing Turnips , 20. Gathering - up Ridges from the 37. Triangular Turnip - Store , Flat , 174 38. White Globe Turnip . - The Purple 21. An Open Furrow with ...
Pàgina xvii
... Turnip - Slicer , 50. The Turnip - Trough for Sheep- Feeding , · 51. Occupying Turnip - Land for Sheep , 52. The Oil - Cake or Corn Box for Sheep , 53. The Oil - Cake Breaker , 54. A Moveable Shed for Sheep on Turnips , 55. Steading for ...
... Turnip - Slicer , 50. The Turnip - Trough for Sheep- Feeding , · 51. Occupying Turnip - Land for Sheep , 52. The Oil - Cake or Corn Box for Sheep , 53. The Oil - Cake Breaker , 54. A Moveable Shed for Sheep on Turnips , 55. Steading for ...
Pàgina 10
... turnips and grass , and dry fodder , such as straw and hay , for the use of cowfeeders 39. Another kind of farming is practised and stable - keepers . In this kind of farm- 38. A pastoral farmer should be well acquainted with the ...
... turnips and grass , and dry fodder , such as straw and hay , for the use of cowfeeders 39. Another kind of farming is practised and stable - keepers . In this kind of farm- 38. A pastoral farmer should be well acquainted with the ...
Pàgina 11
... turnips and trample the straw into manure , in winter . Any pas- ture grass is mostly in paddocks for the accommodation of stock sent to the weekly market . Locality entirely decides this kind of farming . 43. The chief qualification of ...
... turnips and trample the straw into manure , in winter . Any pas- ture grass is mostly in paddocks for the accommodation of stock sent to the weekly market . Locality entirely decides this kind of farming . 43. The chief qualification of ...
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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...