Hints Originally Intended for the Small Farmers of the County of Wexford: But Suited to the Circumstances of Most Parts of IrelandW. Curry, jun., 1846 - 118 pages |
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... fresh surface ; and the best plough is that which is most easily drawn . As to the depth , 4 inches may be con- sidered light , 6 inches middling , and 9 inches deep ploughing . In general , the poor man's field is only scratched ; fresh ...
... fresh surface ; and the best plough is that which is most easily drawn . As to the depth , 4 inches may be con- sidered light , 6 inches middling , and 9 inches deep ploughing . In general , the poor man's field is only scratched ; fresh ...
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... fresh earthed in the little garden , the pig snug and clean in her stye , and the bees ( every one of you should have hives ) swarming that very day ; Jenny herself , and the children , as tidy as you can imagine , and " The Hurler ...
... fresh earthed in the little garden , the pig snug and clean in her stye , and the bees ( every one of you should have hives ) swarming that very day ; Jenny herself , and the children , as tidy as you can imagine , and " The Hurler ...
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... Fresh meat held half the year alone . Now , every month a stock supplies , And hence , the farmer's profits rise . No cattle starve - no waste is found , Milk , meat , cheese , butter , all abound , And , smiling plenty to secure ...
... Fresh meat held half the year alone . Now , every month a stock supplies , And hence , the farmer's profits rise . No cattle starve - no waste is found , Milk , meat , cheese , butter , all abound , And , smiling plenty to secure ...
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... the ill effects of age , frequent change of seed is most necessary ; and fresh seed should be procured from potatoes that have been planted on a different soil , as , from poor to rich , and from clay to sand lands . The coarser the 47.
... the ill effects of age , frequent change of seed is most necessary ; and fresh seed should be procured from potatoes that have been planted on a different soil , as , from poor to rich , and from clay to sand lands . The coarser the 47.
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... fresh manure , ( and to the want of attention to this point the comparative failure of transplanted crops is to be attributed ) other plants of mangel wurzel , rape , cabbages , or Swedish turnips , which should always be in a reserved ...
... fresh manure , ( and to the want of attention to this point the comparative failure of transplanted crops is to be attributed ) other plants of mangel wurzel , rape , cabbages , or Swedish turnips , which should always be in a reserved ...
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Page 99 - She's long in her face, she's fine in her horn, She'll quickly get fat, without cake or corn, She's clear in her jaws, and full in her chine, She's heavy in flank, and wide in her loin. She's broad in her ribs, and long in her rump, A straight and flat back, with never a hump; She's wide in her hips, and calm in her eyes, She's fine in her shoulders, and thin in her thighs. She's light in her...
Page 103 - If a large hive does not weigh, thirty pounds, it will be necessary to allow it half a pound of honey, or the same quantity of soft sugar made into a syrup, for every pound that is deficient of that weight ; and, in like proportion, to smaller hives. This work must not be delayed, that time may be given for the bees to make the deposit in their empty cells before they are rendered torpid by the cold.
Page 44 - A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children : and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just. 23 Much food is in the tillage of the poor : but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
Page 87 - Land when once improved by irrigation is put into a state of perpetual fertility, without any occasion for manure or trouble of weeding, or any other material expense ; it becomes so productive as to yield the largest bulk of hay, besides abundance of the very best support for ewes and lambs in the spring, and for cows and other cattle in the autumn of every year.
Page 89 - Next, the grass-cocks are to be well shaken out into staddles (or separate plats) of five or six yards diameter. If the crop should be so thin and light as to leave the spaces between these staddles rather large, such spaces must be immediately raked clean, and the rakings mixed with the other hay, in order to its all drying of a uniform colour.
Page 92 - I apprehend it continues through the winter. From the middle of March till September, the operations of trussing and marketing expose it so much to the sun and wind, as to render it considerably lighter, probably 80 : that is, hay which would weigh 90 the instant it is separated from the stack, would waste to 80 (in trussing, exposure on the road and at market for about 24° hours) by the time it is usually delivered to a purchaser.
Page 97 - Milk which is put into a bucket or other proper vessel, and carried in it to a considerable distance, so as to be much agitated and in part cooled before it be put into the milk-pans to settle for cream, never throws up so much or so rich a cream as if the same milk had been put into the milk-pans, without agitation, directly after it was milked.
Page 97 - Cows should be milked as near the dairy as possible, in order to prevent the necessity of carrying and cooling the milk before it is put into the creaming dishes. Every cow's milk should be kept separate, till the peculiar properties of each are so well known as to admit of their being classed, when those that are most nearly allied may be mixed together. When it is intended to make butter of a very fine quality, reject entirely the milk of all those cows which yield cream of a bad quality, and also...
Page 84 - This manure is transient in its effects, and does not last for more than a single crop, which is easily accounted for from the large quantity of water, or the elements of water, it contains.
Page 62 - This species of manure is relied on beyond any other, upon all the light soils throughout Flanders, and even upon the strong lands (originally so rich as to preclude the necessity of manure), is now coming into great esteem, being considered applicable to most crops, and to all the varieties of soil.