British Farmer's Magazine, 56. numberJames Ridgway, 1869 |
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... condition of the country . The agricultural element , constituting then , as now , the chief leverage whereby the ... conditions as intelligent men thought necessary to be employed in the advancement of the science of farming . The Irish ...
... condition of the country . The agricultural element , constituting then , as now , the chief leverage whereby the ... conditions as intelligent men thought necessary to be employed in the advancement of the science of farming . The Irish ...
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... condition of real pro- perty in Scotland as compared with its present , and show to what and to whom the improved state of the land and its owners is to be ascribed . HYPOTHEC . [ which enabled the landowners to grant leases and improve ...
... condition of real pro- perty in Scotland as compared with its present , and show to what and to whom the improved state of the land and its owners is to be ascribed . HYPOTHEC . [ which enabled the landowners to grant leases and improve ...
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... condition in which it is sustained ; if con- tinually mown and sometimes saved for seed , without any compensating manure being applied to it , the plant will gra- dually become weaker , and the indigenous plants rapidly in- crease ...
... condition in which it is sustained ; if con- tinually mown and sometimes saved for seed , without any compensating manure being applied to it , the plant will gra- dually become weaker , and the indigenous plants rapidly in- crease ...
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... condition of a freshly - built hay - rick , it is proper to use pieces of or round iron 8 or 9 feet long , drawn to a point , and turned round into a strong ring at the other extremity to fit a stout round T handle of wood . These ...
... condition of a freshly - built hay - rick , it is proper to use pieces of or round iron 8 or 9 feet long , drawn to a point , and turned round into a strong ring at the other extremity to fit a stout round T handle of wood . These ...
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... condition . Now there are many soils which contain abundant plant food , and yet upon which plants fail to succeed . Culture , deep , and above all thorough culture , will remedy this , and without it manure alone will not be suffi ...
... condition . Now there are many soils which contain abundant plant food , and yet upon which plants fail to succeed . Culture , deep , and above all thorough culture , will remedy this , and without it manure alone will not be suffi ...
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Page 158 - Or the pure bosom of its nursing lake, Which feeds it as a mother who doth make A fair but froward infant her own care, Kissing its cries away as these awake;— Is it not better thus our lives to wear, Than join the crushing crowd, doom'd to inflict or bear?
Page 239 - Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Page 228 - Act of 1869) and of every other power enabling them in this behalf, do order, and it is hereby ordered as follows —
Page 17 - the rock whence they were hewn, and the hole of the pit whence they were digged.
Page 11 - Simmons a vote of thanks to the Chairman brought the proceedings to a close.
Page 281 - I thank you for the kind manner in which you have received the toast which has been proposed by Mr.
Page 27 - To THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.
Page 239 - And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Beth-el, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made : and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high places which he had made.
Page 239 - And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan. 31 And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.
Page 182 - The experiment at Stormontfield has afforded satisfactory proof that a portion at least of the fry of the salmon assume the migratory dress and descend to the sea shortly after the close of the first year of their existence ; and what is far more important in a practical point of view, it has also demonstrated the. practicability of rearing salmon of marketable value within twenty months from the deposition of the ova. A very interesting question still remains to be solved. At what date will the...