Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, Volume 14Royal Agricultural Society of England, 1853 - Agriculture Vols. for 1933- include the societys Farmers' guide to agricultural research. |
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Page 55
... Pigs kept from March 25 , 1852 , to September , on skimmed milk , allowing for each cow's skim - milk 1s . 6d . per week , fed on pea , barley , and oat - meal , and charging for attendance , and every other item , showed a small profit ...
... Pigs kept from March 25 , 1852 , to September , on skimmed milk , allowing for each cow's skim - milk 1s . 6d . per week , fed on pea , barley , and oat - meal , and charging for attendance , and every other item , showed a small profit ...
Page 60
... pigs and cows . Many farmers provide pits or tanks to store the grains , at a time of year when they are most plentiful . This practice has very much reduced the growth of hay . More cows are kept , and more land under pas- ture . The ...
... pigs and cows . Many farmers provide pits or tanks to store the grains , at a time of year when they are most plentiful . This practice has very much reduced the growth of hay . More cows are kept , and more land under pas- ture . The ...
Page 69
... pigs , and the butter is taken out and well washed . It is then worked with the hand until the buttermilk is thoroughly expressed and the air - bubbles are broken . A portion of salt is mixed with about each half - dozen pounds ; the ...
... pigs , and the butter is taken out and well washed . It is then worked with the hand until the buttermilk is thoroughly expressed and the air - bubbles are broken . A portion of salt is mixed with about each half - dozen pounds ; the ...
Page 74
... pigs ' trough ! In this case the cows had calved many months before , the pasture was bad , and the weather unfavourable . Letting Dairies . - The practice that obtains in Dorsetshire is as follows : -The farmer lets off his dairy from ...
... pigs ' trough ! In this case the cows had calved many months before , the pasture was bad , and the weather unfavourable . Letting Dairies . - The practice that obtains in Dorsetshire is as follows : -The farmer lets off his dairy from ...
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... pigs , or sheep . We have now spoken of those green crops which occupy a prominent position upon the light - land fallows . Rape and mus- tard are in occasional use , but they more properly belong to heavy land , where the swede and ...
... pigs , or sheep . We have now spoken of those green crops which occupy a prominent position upon the light - land fallows . Rape and mus- tard are in occasional use , but they more properly belong to heavy land , where the swede and ...
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Page 417 - To make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is the secret of agricultural wealth.
Page 252 - England under the name of the " new disease," by the virulence of which thousands of cattle are carried off annually, and against which all medical aid has up to this period proved insufficient to check its infectious ravages, I have not lost sight of this important question, and the various improvements which longer experience has introduced into this new system; and I consider that I should be failing in my duty if I did not call your Lordship's attention to a report which has been forwarded to...
Page 113 - ... stallions, into the pasture grounds. It is constantly observed that these horses become the sires of a race to which the ambling pace is natural and requires no teaching.
Page 212 - Having brought my subject through the first period of its technical history, the preparation of the fibre, I may perhaps be permitted to say a few words on the state of the flax industry generally in our own and in other countries, from some of which we draw annually large supplies of fibre. In England, in 1851, the Factory Inspectors...
Page 111 - ... is as applicable to faulty and disproportioned as to beautiful and symmetrical form, to diseased and debilitated as to healthy and vigorous constitution, to gentle and tractable as to fiery and indomitable disposition. The size, weight, general appearance, expression of countenance, fleetness, and temper of the horse are all hereditary. Many illustrations might be given of particular families being remarkable, during several generations, for good or bad points, as for well...
Page 536 - Pigs — if we consider that it is the results obtained under the subtle agency of animal life, that we are seeking to measure and express in figures — and if we also bear in mind the various sources of modification to which our actual figures must be submitted, in order to attain their true indications, we think...
Page 225 - I united with animals of another mixed breed, picking out the best I could find on the borders of La Beauce and Touraine, which blended the Tourangelle and native Merino blood of those other two districts.
Page 220 - The lambs thrive, wear a beautiful appearance, and complete the joy of the breeder No sooner are the lambs weaned than their strength, their vigour, and their beauty begin to decay At last the constitution gives way .... he remains stunted for life : " the constitution being thus proved unstable or unadapted to the requirements. How, then, did M.
Page 524 - ... consumed by a given weight of animal, within a given time, and the amount of increase obtained from a given weight of food.