BDA Preis 1982: vorbildiche bauten im Lande Bremen von 1978-1982Bund Deutscher Architeken BDA, 1829 - 76 Seiten |
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Seite 42 - Mr. Christian, in his essay, supports the view, that the offspring' bears the greatest resemblance to that parent whether male or female, which has exerted the greatest sway of generative influence in the formation of the foetus, "that any hypothesis which would assign a superiority, or set limits to the influence of either sex in the product of generation is unsound and inadmissible," and he thus concludes — " as therefore it is unsafe to trust to the qualities of any individual animal, male or...
Seite 34 - A thousand pities you can't come in before next week ; we shall then have fiery motions in the Lower House, as the astrologers say.
Seite 18 - Society, and having done so, to prove by facts that the answer given is the proper one. I have not the slightest doubt in my own mind that the...
Seite 199 - Cream. 199 no washing could detach the milk from the butter, without the aid of salt : but when a quantity of salt was wrought well into it, and the mass allowed to stand for twenty-four hours, and then taken to a well of spring water, and repeatedly washed, the milk by this process was got out, and the butter resalted in good order. According to Experiment No. 1. sixteen pounds and...
Seite 208 - At this part let a workman, with a mallet, and the common steel-boring chisel of masons, make a small circular hole, about two inches deep, and as perpendicular as possible. This chisel should be of such a size as to make the hole about a sixteenth part of an inch less in diameter than the plug itself, so that a stroke or two of a hammer may be necessary to drive the iron home. When the latter is thus driven an inch, more or less, into the stone, it is attached to the block, and the ropes are tightened...
Seite 18 - His paper is of considerable length and ably written, abounding in argument and illustrations not easily condensed so as to be given here, and it is but justice to add that he also holds that " before the breed of a country can be improved, much more must be looked to than the answer to the question put by the Highland Society, such as crossing, selection of both parents, attention to pedigree, and to the food and care of offspring.
Seite 40 - ... from, and superior to, those of the general stock of the country. This form and character would in most instances have been acquired by perseverance in breeding from animals which possessed the important or fancied requisites, and might therefore be said to be almost confirmed in such individuals. Under these circumstances, striking results would doubtless follow the introduction of these sires to a common stock ; results which would lead superficial observers to remark, that individual sires...
Seite 22 - It is not always by putting the best male to the best female, that the best produce will be obtained; for, should they both have a tendency to the same defect, although in ever so slight a degree, it will, in general, preponderate so much in the produce as to render it of little value.
Seite 352 - The churn, whether plunge or barrel, should be made of the best well-seasoned white oak, and as cleanliness is of the first importance, great attention should be paid to the washing, drying, and airing of the churns immediately after use, otherwise they are sure to contract a sour and unwholesome smell, which must injure the quality of the butter.
Seite 17 - Whether the breed of live stock connected with agriculture be susceptible of the greatest improvement from the qualities conspicuous in the male or from those conspicuous in the female parent1?