Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, Volume 9Royal Agricultural Society of England, 1848 - Agriculture |
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Page 63 - Cambridge in 1845, stated that "a stratum of green-sand, although never more than a foot thick, occurred near the surface over many square miles in the vicinity of Cambridge...
Page 84 - ... quotations above given, I confess that I have grave doubts on the subject, so far as regards the chalk area, where there are neither running streams on the surface of the valleys nor any subterranean, as far as can be ascertained, in the same lines. Speaking of the Wold dales, Professor Phillips writes : " Where several of these valleys meet they produce a very pleasing combination of salient and retiring slopes, which resemble, on a grand scale, the petty concavities and projections in the actual...
Page 27 - When feeding on natural herbage, he grasps the blades with his lips, by which they are conducted between the incisor or front teeth. These he employs for the double purpose of holding and detaching the grass, the latter action being assisted by a twitch of the head. The ox, on the contrary, uses the tongue to collect his food ; that organ being so directed as to encircle a small tuft of grass, which is placed by it between the incisors and an elastic pad opposite to them in the upper jaw ; between...
Page 221 - the crops on a field diminish or increase in exact proportion to the diminution or increase of the mineral substances conveyed to it in manure...
Page 27 - ... the double purpose of holding and detaching the grass, the latter action being assisted by a twitch of the head. The sheep gathers his food in a similar manner, but he is enabled to bring his cutting teeth much nearer to the roots of the plants, in consequence of the upper lip being partially cleft. Hence the adage, that " the sheep will fatten where the ox will starve...
Page xiii - All information contained in Prize Essays shall be founded on experience or observation, and not on simple reference to books or other sources.
Page 223 - ... and its carbonate, rise in vapour at a strong red heat, we are persuaded that a large error must be committed in estimating the amount of these materials contained in plants by the results of incineration ; and we believe that in not a few cases the quantity obtained is scarcely onehalf of what really exists in the vegetable mass. The important bearing of this consideration upon the late numerous and elaborate analyses of ashes should we think claim the special attention of chemists. Indeed it...
Page 19 - tedding" again takes place in the early part of the morning, and every other order, as practised on the two preceding days, follows in proper and due succession ; the hay most forward now requires nice attention, and is managed according to the appearance of the, weather ; if fine and warm, it is again shaken out into round patches, or, if a heavy crop, is usually strewed into
Page 245 - In soils that are so tenacious as to retain water on the surface, this method of draining (deep) has been tried, and found entirely to fail.
Page 4 - Leicesters, as they are principally used in that and the surrounding districts. In those districts where less shelter is found and part of the occupation is arable, it is customary to allow the cattle to go out during the day to clean up the nearest pastures and return to the yards at night. Nothing occurs in their management different from that of the preceding pastures ; the grasses are really indigenous productions, formed upon an accumulated mass of vegetable mould, and are of themselves sufficiently...