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Page xvii
... less exalted sphere . Yet how natural is it for man , whofe heart is ever fufceptible of the impreffions of vanity , and whofe mind . muft always be delighted with that fublime beauty that results from a knowledge of na- ture , to be ...
... less exalted sphere . Yet how natural is it for man , whofe heart is ever fufceptible of the impreffions of vanity , and whofe mind . muft always be delighted with that fublime beauty that results from a knowledge of na- ture , to be ...
Page 99
... less than eight or nine feet in length . Thefe ought to be cut over close by the ground immediately before planting , and carried to the field at their whole length . * The planter having ftretched a line along the middle of the ridge ...
... less than eight or nine feet in length . Thefe ought to be cut over close by the ground immediately before planting , and carried to the field at their whole length . * The planter having ftretched a line along the middle of the ridge ...
Page 168
... less this be firft done , all his other opera- tions will turn out to little account . The methods of drawing off ftagnant wa- ter , which may be accumulated in any low fituation for want of a proper outlet , are in general fo obvious ...
... less this be firft done , all his other opera- tions will turn out to little account . The methods of drawing off ftagnant wa- ter , which may be accumulated in any low fituation for want of a proper outlet , are in general fo obvious ...
Page 178
... less than when the ridges are high . 1 If the foil is fo thin that the plough can always touch the clay , the ridges ought to be made narrow and quite flat , as from G to H : But , if there is a little greater depth of foil , then it ...
... less than when the ridges are high . 1 If the foil is fo thin that the plough can always touch the clay , the ridges ought to be made narrow and quite flat , as from G to H : But , if there is a little greater depth of foil , then it ...
Page 194
... less expensive than what is usually practifed with regard to fome foils of this kind in Effex , where they make covered drains of two and a half feet deep , running diagonally through the whole field , at the distance of twenty feet ...
... less expensive than what is usually practifed with regard to fome foils of this kind in Effex , where they make covered drains of two and a half feet deep , running diagonally through the whole field , at the distance of twenty feet ...
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abſorb allowed almoſt alſo bank becauſe beſt cafe calcareous matter calcined cauftic cauſe cement chalk chryftallized circumftances clay cloſe confequence confiderable confifts courſe crop deſcribed diffolved dike diſtance ditch drain earth eaſily Effay employed expence faline falt fame farmer fence fhall fhoots fhort fide field firft firſt fituation fize flaked fmall foft foil folid fome meaſure fometimes foon fowed fpring ftate ftem ftone ftratum ftrength ftrong fubftances fubject fuch fufficient furface grafs ground hedge height impoffible itſelf kind leaſt lefs leſs likewife lime lime-ftone lofes Loriot manner manure marle moft mortar moſt muſt neceffary nurſery obfervations occafions particles plants plough poffible powder prefent preſerve proper proportion of fand pure purpoſe quantity raiſed reaſon render reſpect ridges rife rill river roots ſhall ſhoots ſhould ſmall ſmaller ſome ſpread ſtate ſtems ſtone thefe theſe thofe thoſe tion ufually unleſs uſe uſually whole
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Page 245 - ... immediately after the cocks are put up, fo as to overturn them, nothing elfe can hurt the hay ; as I have often experienced, that no rain, however' violent, ever penetrates into thefe cocks but for a very little way.
Page i - MD, Professor of the Practice of Physic in the University of Edinburgh. HEAT. By TS TRAILL, MD, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in the University of Edinburgh. HELMINTHOLOGY. By JAMES WILSON, FRSE HEMP. By TC ARCHER, Author of "Popular Economic Botany,
Page 79 - An expert operator will perform this work with much greater expedition than one who has not feen it done could cafily imagine.
Page 85 - And as the (hoots become lefs vigorous every fucctffive feafon, there will be lefs difficulty in preferving them at any future period. It will always be proper, however, to trim the fides of a very vigorous hedge for fome years while it is young, about the fame feafon of the year, which will tend powerfully to prevent this malady. But when the hedge has advanced to any confidcrable height, it will be equally proper to clip it during any of the winter-months, before Candlemas.
Page 244 - Inflead of allowing the hay to lie, as ufual in moft places, for fonie days in the fwathe after it is cut, and afterwards alternately putting it up into cocks, and fpreading it out, and tedding it in the fun, which tends greatly to bleach the hay,— exhales its natural juices, and...
Page 323 - ... from the fides of the pot, and crumbled into a thoufand pieces, all of them equally friable with the bits of lime dried up by the fun, which we ufually meet on the banks of our lime pits. With regard to the other part...
Page 244 - ... of being made good for little, I make it a general rule, if poffible, never to cut hay but when the grafs is quite dry ; and then make the gatherers follow clofe upon the cutters, — putting it up immediately into fmall cocks, about three feet high each, when new put up, and of as fmall a diameter as they can be made to...
Page 248 - ... it is cut, and before it is gathered ; the generality of farmers feeming to be very well fatisfied if they get in their hay without being abfolutely rotted ; never paying the leaft attention to its having been feveral times thoroughly wetted while the hay was making. But, if thefe gentlemen will take the trouble at any time to compare any parcel of hay that has been made...
Page 246 - ... pitchfork, lift up one of thefe fmall cocks between them with the greateft eafe, and carry them, one after another, to the place where the tramp-cock is to be built * : And in this manner they proceed over the field till the whole is fmifhed.