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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... soon saved money enough to stock small farms ( about three acres each ) and one of them gradually enlarging his holding as his capital increased , rents 30 acres of land , and is a very independent man . Diligence and honesty may ...
... soon saved money enough to stock small farms ( about three acres each ) and one of them gradually enlarging his holding as his capital increased , rents 30 acres of land , and is a very independent man . Diligence and honesty may ...
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... soon think of thrust- ing his calculating noddle into the fire , as of slipping it into the yoke of matrimony , until by patient indus- try he had acquired the means of supporting a wife and children . Now , I am very far from wishing ...
... soon think of thrust- ing his calculating noddle into the fire , as of slipping it into the yoke of matrimony , until by patient indus- try he had acquired the means of supporting a wife and children . Now , I am very far from wishing ...
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... but made in small cocks , which should be put together for the winter as soon as possible . I think that the half acre of clover ( most of which will be cut for her green food twice or three times ) will keep her until August , when 34.
... but made in small cocks , which should be put together for the winter as soon as possible . I think that the half acre of clover ( most of which will be cut for her green food twice or three times ) will keep her until August , when 34.
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... soon become prodigiously fertile , because all the manure made during twelve months is applied to one - fourth of an acre . Every one of the four crops after a few years would be great beyond your conception ; the fact is , that " much ...
... soon become prodigiously fertile , because all the manure made during twelve months is applied to one - fourth of an acre . Every one of the four crops after a few years would be great beyond your conception ; the fact is , that " much ...
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... soon as the plants begin to grow , dig the ground with a spade clean and well , going as near the plants as possible , without displacing them : dig again in April and May , and destroy all weeds - about the first of June there will be ...
... soon as the plants begin to grow , dig the ground with a spade clean and well , going as near the plants as possible , without displacing them : dig again in April and May , and destroy all weeds - about the first of June there will be ...
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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.