The Farmer's Encyclopædia, and Dictionary of Rural Affairs: Embracing All the Most Recent Discoveries in Agricultural Chemistry, Volume 1Carey and Hart, 1844 - 1165 pages |
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... employed by the same prophet , is " a garden that hath no water . " ( Isu . i . 30. ) In Egypt they irrigated their lands ; and the water thus supplied to them was raised by an hydraulic machine , worked by men in the same manner as the ...
... employed by the same prophet , is " a garden that hath no water . " ( Isu . i . 30. ) In Egypt they irrigated their lands ; and the water thus supplied to them was raised by an hydraulic machine , worked by men in the same manner as the ...
Page 37
... employed as a fertilizer in Gaul , and marl in the same country and Britain ; but we can only surmise hence that they were also probably employed by the Romans . ( Pliny , xvii . 8 , and xvii . 5. ) 4. Draining . The superfluous water ...
... employed as a fertilizer in Gaul , and marl in the same country and Britain ; but we can only surmise hence that they were also probably employed by the Romans . ( Pliny , xvii . 8 , and xvii . 5. ) 4. Draining . The superfluous water ...
Page 44
... employed , and one horse . In the time of Heresbachius , though harrowing was the usual mode of covering the seed , yet he says , " in some places it is done with a board tied to the plough . " Rakes seem to have been employed by the ...
... employed , and one horse . In the time of Heresbachius , though harrowing was the usual mode of covering the seed , yet he says , " in some places it is done with a board tied to the plough . " Rakes seem to have been employed by the ...
Page 46
... employed in the operations of agriculture ; and their em- ployment was not considered desirable ; for in the old Cambrian laws , oxen are exclusively directed to be employed . ( Leges Wallicæ , 288. ) Under the Saxons , and still more ...
... employed in the operations of agriculture ; and their em- ployment was not considered desirable ; for in the old Cambrian laws , oxen are exclusively directed to be employed . ( Leges Wallicæ , 288. ) Under the Saxons , and still more ...
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... employed , since it is on a large scale ; for the comparative expense of preparation and application is unquestiona- bly smaller on a large scale than on a less . Holland . The husbandry of this country is almost exclusively confined to ...
... employed , since it is on a large scale ; for the comparative expense of preparation and application is unquestiona- bly smaller on a large scale than on a less . Holland . The husbandry of this country is almost exclusively confined to ...
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Page 131 - ... shall be guilty of felony ; and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the seas for life, *or for any term not less than seven years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding four years : and, if a male, to be once, twice, or thrice publicly or privately whipped (if the Court shall so think fit,) in addition to such imprisonment...
Page 32 - For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff", and the cummin with a rod.
Page 33 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, Till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land...
Page 91 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 31 - The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
Page 351 - Proclamations for the prices of victuals, viz., the prizing of them, and proclaiming the prices," which recites, " Forasmuch as dearth, scarcity, good, cheap, and plenty of cheese, butter, capons, hens, chickens, and other victuals necessary for man's sustenance, happeneth, riseth, and chanceth, of so many and divers occasions that it is very hard and difficult to put any certain prices to any such things...
Page 199 - The most easy and practical mode of effecting their division is, to pour over the bones, in a state of fine powder, half of their weight of sulphuric acid diluted with three or four parts of water...
Page 78 - All the rain-water employed in this inquiry was collected 600 paces southwest of Giessen, whilst the wind was blowing in the direction of the town. When several hundred pounds of it were distilled in a copper still, and the first two or three pounds evaporated with the addition of a little muriatic acid, a very distinct crystallization of sal-ammoniac was obtained : the crystals had always a brown or yellow color.
Page 38 - And to go or ride to the market to sell butter, cheese, milk, eggs, chickens, capons, hens, pigs, geese and all manner of corns.
Page 277 - During the months of July and August, there may be found on apple-trees and rose-bushes, and sometimes on other trees and shrubs, little slender caterpillars (Plate VII. Fig. 1), of a bright yellow color, sparingly clothed with long and fine yellow hairs on the sides of the body, and having four short and thick brush-like yellowish tufts on the back, that is on the fourth and three following rings, two long black plumes or pencils extending forwards from the first ring, and a single plume on the...