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Page 111 - ... mouths of all are not equally adapted to lay hold of the grass ; by which means there is sufficient food for all. To this may be referred an economical...
Page 111 - So various is the appetite of animals, that there is scarcely any plant, which is not chosen by some, and left untouched by others. The horse gives up the water-hemlock to (he goat.
Page 150 - The practice of putting the milk of all the cows of a large dairy into one vessel, as it is milked, there to remain till the whole milking be finished, before any part...
Page 77 - The product 01 this grass, when compared to others that are allied to it in habit and place of growth, proves greatly superior. It affords twice the weight of grass, and more than double the nutritive matter that is given by the common clover. It gives abundance of seed • and, says G. Sinclair, if the ground be kept free of weeds, it sows itself, vegetates, and grows rapidly, without covering in, or any operation whatever. Four years it has propagated itself in this manner on the space of ground...
Page 129 - It is probable that, by great attention, a breed might be reared, the males of which might be well calculated, in every respect, for the shambles, and the females of which might, when young, produce abundant quantities of good milk, yet, when they reached eight or nine years of age, might be easily fattened. This would be the most valuable breed that could be propagated in any country, and indeed some of the best English and Scotch breeds have almost reached that point of perfection.
Page 127 - Beauty, or symmetry of s/tape ; in which the form is so compact, that every part of the animal bears an exact consistency, while the carcass should be deep and broad, and the less valuable parts (such as the head, bones, &c.) ought to be as small as possible. The...
Page 77 - Four years it has propagated itself in this manner on the space of ground which it now occupies, and from which this statement of its comparative value is made. This species would, no doubt, prove a valuable acquisition to our husbandry, whether we consider its value for green food, hay, or as a green crop to be turned in preparatory to grain.
Page 74 - In England, cock's foot is taking the place of rye grass with clovers. Arthur Young speaks in high. commendation of it; though all writers concur in the opinion, that it should be frequently and closely cropped, either with the scythe or cattle, to reap the full benefit of its great merits. I should prefer it to almost every other grass ; and cows are very fond of it. Cooper rates it above timothy, and says it is gradually taking the place of the latter among the best farmers about Philadelphia....
Page 5 - AGESILAUS, king of Sparta, being asked, " What things he thought most proper for boys to learn," answered, " Those which they ought to practise when they come to be men.
Page 20 - ... over the hills, the vales, the rivers, and the boundless deep, and opens to our view the glorious host of heaven. Yet this delightful visitant, by a slight modification, from the hand of Omnipotence, is capable of being transformed into the most destructive element in nature. Light flies from the sun at the rate of 200,000 miles in a second of time ; and it is owing to its particles being almost infinitely small, that we feel no inconvenience from their rapid velocity. But, were the Creator to...