British Farmer's Magazine, 56. numberJames Ridgway, 1869 |
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... crops , red clover is very uncertain , yields satisfactory crops only in remarkably wet seasons , and seldom outlives ... crop was better than the first , and the third quite as good as the second . Anthyllis grows wild in hollow ways ...
... crops , red clover is very uncertain , yields satisfactory crops only in remarkably wet seasons , and seldom outlives ... crop was better than the first , and the third quite as good as the second . Anthyllis grows wild in hollow ways ...
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... crop and the conditions it meets with , favourable or otherwise , in the soil . We know no crop can thrive as it should unless this is attended to , and above all things keep the soil clean of weeds , which is always stealing the money ...
... crop and the conditions it meets with , favourable or otherwise , in the soil . We know no crop can thrive as it should unless this is attended to , and above all things keep the soil clean of weeds , which is always stealing the money ...
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... crop with its numerous varieties may be classed among our artificial grasses , and would form a good subject to be treated on by some other member of this club on some future occasion . Mr. W. CHICK expressed his conviction that the ...
... crop with its numerous varieties may be classed among our artificial grasses , and would form a good subject to be treated on by some other member of this club on some future occasion . Mr. W. CHICK expressed his conviction that the ...
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... crop and save the second for seed , the same as with broad clover . They would thus get a good amount of feed , and they would obtain more seed from the second cropping than from the first . He had proved this at different times . On ...
... crop and save the second for seed , the same as with broad clover . They would thus get a good amount of feed , and they would obtain more seed from the second cropping than from the first . He had proved this at different times . On ...
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... crop just as the flower is beginning to become well developed ; at this stage it is in the greatest perfection for hay - left longer it may yield a little heavier crop , but it loses its leaves exten- sively and becomes woody in stem ...
... crop just as the flower is beginning to become well developed ; at this stage it is in the greatest perfection for hay - left longer it may yield a little heavier crop , but it loses its leaves exten- sively and becomes woody in stem ...
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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...