The Book of the Farm, Volum 1W. Blackwood, 1852 |
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Pàgina xvii
... WINTER , 187 ON PULLING AND STORING 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 ...
... WINTER , 187 ON PULLING AND STORING 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 ...
Pàgina 2
... winter . It may be incongenial to his feelings who has been accustomed to pass the winter in town , even to contemplate , and far more to participate , for the first time , in the labours of a farm on the eve of winter . He would ...
... winter . It may be incongenial to his feelings who has been accustomed to pass the winter in town , even to contemplate , and far more to participate , for the first time , in the labours of a farm on the eve of winter . He would ...
Pàgina 10
... winter ; but the principal winter food of the stock is hay , which is obtained by enclosing and mowing pieces of natural grass on spots of good land , which are generally found on the banks of a rivulet . All pastoral farms are large ...
... winter ; but the principal winter food of the stock is hay , which is obtained by enclosing and mowing pieces of natural grass on spots of good land , which are generally found on the banks of a rivulet . All pastoral farms are large ...
Pàgina 11
... 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 an occu- pant of this kind of farm , is a ...
... 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 an occu- pant of this kind of farm , is a ...
Pàgina 17
... winter , when the cattle are all land ; but most of the manual operations housed in it . He has the sole charge of are better performed by women than men . them . It is his duty to clean out the cattle- In hand - picking stones and ...
... winter , when the cattle are all land ; but most of the manual operations housed in it . He has the sole charge of are better performed by women than men . them . It is his duty to clean out the cattle- In hand - picking stones and ...
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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...