The Complete Farmer and Rural Economist: Containing a Compendious Epitome of the Most Important Branches of Agricultural and Rural EconomyC.M. Saxton and Company, 1857 |
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Seite 313 - The process for cleansing the trees from borers should be performed in the spring, as soon as the frost is out of the ground, or at least before the month ot June, as the perfect insect escapes before that time.
Seite 202 - The compost, after it is made up, gets into a general heat, sooner or later, according to the weather and the condition of the dung; in summer, in ten days or sooner ; in winter, not perhaps for many weeks, if the cold is severe. It always, however, has been found to come on at last; and in summer, it sometimes rises so high as to be mischievous. by consuming the...
Seite 5 - I shall only instance in one delight more, the most natural and best natured of all others, a perpetual companion of the husbandman: and that is, the satisfaction of looking round about him, and seeing nothing but the effects and improvements of his own art and diligence; to be always gathering of...
Seite 41 - He published the following recipe, by the use of which his cows afforded an equal quantity and quality of milk during the winter as during the summer : — Take a bushel of potatoes, break them whilst raw, place them in a barrel standing up, putting in successively a layer of potatoes and a layer of bran, and a small quantity of yeast in the middle of the mass...