Hints on Farming and Estate ManagementLongmans, Green & Company, 1865 - 548 pages |
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acre advantage agricultural agriculturists ammonia amount animals barley British Columbia bushels capital cattle classes clover corn Corntown cost cottages cows crops cultivation D. G. F. MACDONALD DEAR SIR Dingwall ditto drainage draining duty earth effect England English expense experience farm farmer feeding feet fertility field flax garden give grain grass ground guano gypsum horses husbandry important improvement inches increase interest labour Land Agent landlord lease less lime Lord malt manure matter means ment milk nature necessary obtained Parliament Street pasture phosphoric acid plants plough practical Prince Consort produce profit proprietor quantity rent require roots Scotland season seed sewage sheep Sir John Sinclair soil sown straw surface tenant tenant-right tenantry tillage tion titmouse trees turnips vegetable waste waste land wheat yards yield
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Page ii - This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.
Page 410 - But, though bold and intrepid, he suffers not himself to be carried off by a furious ardour; he represses his movements, and knows how to govern and check the natural vivacity and fire of his temper. He not only yields to the hand, but seems to consult the inclination of the rider.
Page 443 - One great advantage of the Christian religion is that it brings the great principle of the law of nature and nations — Love your neighbor as yourself, and do to others as you would that others should do to you, — to the knowledge, belief, and veneration of the whole people.
Page 249 - To improve the dwellings of the labouring class, and afford them the means of greater cleanliness, health, and comfort in their own homes ; to extend education, and thus raise the social and moral habits of those most valuable members of the community, are among the first duties, and ought to be among the truest pleasures, of every landlord.
Page 219 - ... follow him, and to whom he is to transmit a home. Perhaps his farm has come down to him from his fathers. They have gone to their last home; but he can trace their footsteps over the scenes of his daily labors.
Page 270 - One of the greatest of all the sources of enjoyment resulting from the possession of a garden is, the endless variety which it produces, either by the perpetual progress of vegetation which is going forward in it to maturity, dormancy, or decay, or by the almost innumerable kinds of plants which may be raised in even the smallest garden. Even the same trees, grown in the same garden, are undergoing perpetual changes throughout the year...
Page 451 - ENERGETIC MEN. WE love upright, energetic men. Pull them this way, and then that way, and the other, and they only bend, but never break. Trip them down, and in a trice they are on their feet. Bury them in the mud, and in an hour they will be out and bright. They are not ever yawning away existence, or walking about the world as if they had come into it with only half their soul ; you cannot keep them down ; you cannot destroy them. But for these the world would soon degenerate. They are the salt...
Page 526 - ... his inheritance. It hindered men that had entailed lands, that they could not make the best of their lands by fine and improvement, for that none, upon so uncertain an estate as for term of his own life, would give him a fine of any value, nor lay any great stock upon the land, that might yield rent improved.
Page 274 - ... was to pay the following rent, viz. ten casks of honey, three hundred loaves of bread, twelve casks of strong ale, thirty casks of small ale, two oxen, ten wethers, ten geese, twenty hens, ten cheeses, one cask of butter, five salmon, twenty pounds of forage, and one hundred eels.