British Farmer's Magazine, Issue 27James Ridgway, 1855 |
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Page 421 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Page 439 - January the sum of money thenceforth payable in respect of such rent-charge shall vary so as always to consist of the price of the same number of bushels and decimal parts of a bushel of wheat, barley, and oats respectively, according to the prices ascertained by the then next preceding advertisement...
Page 295 - ... perfection these plantations rise, If they agreeably my heirs surprise, This faithful pillar will their age declare, As long as time these characters shall spare. Here then with kind remembrance read his name, Who for posterity performed the same.
Page 425 - ... from the vagina: whilst the flock is driven from fold to fold the affected sheep loiters behind and staggers in her gait, the head is carried downward, and the eyelids partly closed. If parturition takes place during this stage of the disease, and the animal is kept warm and carefully nursed, recovery will frequently take place in two or three days; if, on the contrary, no relief is afforded, symptoms of a typhoid* character present themselves ; the animal is found in one corner of the fold,...
Page 53 - Mayor, and the co-operation of the local committee, alike contributed to promote most effectively the objects of the Society on that occasion ; while the special prizes offered by the Mayor to the owners of hunting horses and to the breeders of improved Lincoln sheep, and those for longwool offered by the local committee, increased the variety of the show. A peculiar international interest was at the same time given to the proceedings by the presence of a body of gentlemen deputed specially to attend...
Page 91 - ... of peroxide of iron, and of a pasty texture. This particular mass of deposit had occurred at the junction of a branch with the main, about 30 or 40 yards from the higher end or origin of each drain, and where the run of water would necessarily be greatly less than as it approached the outfall ; and I have found at Drayton Manor, and many other places where ferruginous matter abounds, that stoppage from its deposit is much more frequent towards the higher than nearer the outfall end of a line...
Page 211 - Money which shall be deemed to be of the Value of such Number of Imperial Bushels and Decimal Parts of an Imperial Bushel of Wheat, Barley, and Oats...
Page 372 - To pay to any occupier of land, or other person, who shall undertake, at the request of the Society, to ascertain by any experiment how far such information leads to useful results in practice, a remuneration for any loss which he may incur by so doing.
Page 50 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Page 220 - Club, delivered the following lecture on the utilization of sewerage products, especially those of London, for agricultural purposes : — One hundred years hence, which is not long in the history of a country, our successors will scarcely believe that a nation, wanting annually many millions of quarters of grain to fill up its own inadequate production of food, should waste the only means by which such deficiency might be made good. I mean the productions of the land when they have fulfilled their...