The Harleian dairy system, and an account of the various methods of dairy husbandry pursued by the Dutch. Also a new and improved mode of ventilating stables. With an appendix1829 |
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Seite 142 - And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.
Seite iii - William: The Harleian Dairy System, and an Account of the various Methods of Dairy Husbandry pursued by the Dutch. Also, a new and improved Mode of ventilating Stables. With an Appendix, containing useful Hints (founded on the Author's Experience) for the Management of Hedge-row Fences, Fruit Trees, &c.; and the Means of rendering Barren Land fruitful.
Seite 256 - They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.
Seite iii - Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation ? The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
Seite 231 - ... flanks, and on their faces. Their horns were high and crooked, having deep ringlets at the root, — the plainest proof that the cattle were but scantily fed ; the chine of their backs stood up high and narrow; their sides were lank, short, and thin; their hides thick, and adhering to...
Seite 236 - ... ascribed to them an English origin. I have no doubt but a tinge of foreign blood may have come into their veins ; but I am confident that the breed is chiefly indigenous, and that the principal improvement upon that breed has been by better feeding and treatment. The Earl of Marchmont, about the year 1750, purchased from the Bishop of Durham several cows and a bull of the Teeswater, or some other English breed of the same brown color, into which the dairy stock of Ayrshire has since been changed....
Seite 231 - ... (districts of Ayrshire) were of a diminutive size, ill-fed, ill-shaped, and yielded but a scanty return in milk ; they were mostly of a black color, with stripes of white along the chine or ridge of their backs, about their flanks, and on their faces ; their horns were high and crooked ; their pile (hair) was coarse and open, and few of them yielded more than three or four ¡Scotch pints (six to eight wine quarts) of milk a day.
Seite 195 - One of the principal objects to which grooms should pay the most scrupulous attention, is that of the health of their horses ; indeed, they have discovered that this object is, in a great measure, to be attained by keeping their stables much cooler than they formerly did ; yet, as there may be some of the old school, who still adhere to the former practice, (that of hot stables,) I shall make a few observations on the impropriety of their so doing. It was formerly the common practice among grooms,...
Seite 69 - Brewers' and distillers' grains, and distillers' wash, make the cattle grain sick, as it is termed, and prove injurious to the stomach of the animal. It has been ascertained that if cows are fed upon these grains, &c., their constitutions become quickly destroyed.
Seite 102 - ... cows were preferred, such as weighed from thirty-five to fifty stone, or from five hundred to eight hundred pounds. According to Mr. Harley, the most approved shape and marks of a good dairy cow are as follows : Head small, long, and narrow towards the muzzle ; horns small, clear, bent, and placed at considerable distance from each other ; eyes not large, but brisk and lively ; neck slender and long, tapering towards the head, with a little loose skin below ; shoulders and fore quarters light...