Georgical Essays, Volume 3T. Wilson and R. Spence, 1803 - Agriculture |
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Page 184 - The compost, after it is made up, gets into a general heat, sooner or later, according to the weather, and the condition of the dung : In summer, in ten days or sooner ; in winter, not perhaps for many weeks, if the cold is severe. It always, however, has been found to come on at last * ; and, in summer, it sometimes rises so high as to be mischievous, by consuming the materials (fire-fanging).
Page 473 - It is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy to man. The body of waters deluge him with rains, oppress him with hail, and drown him with inundations; the air rushes in storms, prepares the tempest, or lights up the volcano : but the earth, gentle and indulgent, ever subservient to the wants of man, spreads his walks with flowers, and his table with plenty ; returns...
Page 212 - ... second interval of time is greater in quantity and richer in quality than that which rises in a third equal space of time. That of the third...
Page 184 - Take the peat-mofs to a dry spot, convenient for constructing a dunghill to serve .the field to be manured. Lay the cart-loads of it in two rows, and of the dung, in a row betwixt them. The dung thus lies...
Page 117 - July, being macerated in water, and committed to the earth, sprung up in twelve days. From the other, however, I removed all the male plants, as soon as they were old enough for me to distinguish them from the females. The remaining females grew very well, and presented their long pistilla in great abundance, these flowers continuing a very long time, as if in expectation of their mates; while the plants in the other pot had already ripened their fruit, their pistilla having, quite in a different...
Page 184 - ... and check the fermentation ; when a beginning is thus made, the workmen will proceed working backwards, and adding to the column of compost, as they are furnished with the three rows of materials directed to be laid down for them. They must take care not to tread on the compost, or render it too compact; and, of consequence, in proportion as the peat is wet it should be made up in lumps, and not much broken. In mild weather, seven...
Page 250 - A little salt may be then strewed over the whole, and the cover be firmly fixed down, to remain close shut till it be opened for use. If all this be carefully done, the butter may be kept perfectly sound in this climate for many years. How many years I cannot tell; but I have seen it two years old, and in every respect as sweet and sound as when it was only a month old. It deserves to be remarked, that butter cured in this manner does not taste well till it has stood at least a fortnight after being...
Page 317 - If the truncheon should not fill the holei the earth must be trampled close round it, in order that the air may be excluded. Care must be taken that the plant be set as the pole grows. The cuttings should be from poles of about three years. growth. Maiden poles are the best; they should be set three...
Page 184 - ... of using, when it should be turned over, upside down, and outside in, and all lumps broken : Then it comes into a second heat, but soon cools, and shpuld betaken out for use.
Page 316 - WOULD first advise the laying out the ground into lands, like hop lands,' viz. from three to four yards wide, with a ditch on each side; three feet wide at the top, one foot at the bottom, and two and a half deep. The earth that comes out of the ditch should be thrown on the land. But if there is not full sufficient fall for the water to get off, the ditch should be deeper and wider, till you have near a yard of earth above the level of the water. As soon as this is done, the ground must be double...