The Farmer's Magazine Volume the Seventeenth1860 |
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Page 260 - Perfect Agriculture is the true foundation of all trade and industry, — it is the foundation of the riches of states. But a. rational system of Agriculture cannot be formed without the application of scientific principles ; for such a system must be based on an exact acquaintance with . the means of nutrition of vegetables, and with the influence of soils and action of manure upon them.
Page 190 - Imprinted at London, in Flete strete, within Temple barre, at the sygne of the Hand and Starre, by Richard Totell, the third day of February, an. 1557. Cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum.
Page 190 - he was successively a musician, schoolmaster, servingman, husbandman, grazier, poet ; more skilful in all than thriving in any vocation.
Page 191 - In harvest-time, harvest-folk, servants and all, should make, all together, good cheer in the hall; And fill out the black bowl of blythe to their song, and let them be merry all harvest-time long.
Page 191 - JSrantham, where rye, but no barley did grow, good barley I had, as a many did know. Five seam of an acre, I truly was paid, for thirty load muck, of each acre so laid. In Suffolk again, whereas wheat never grew, good husbandry used, good wheat land I knew, This proverb, experience long ago gave, "that nothing who practiseth, nothing shall have.
Page 163 - ... great ; but if the engineers would come to an understanding with the men of science in relation to the two purposes, — the removal of the contents of the sewers and the recovery of their valuable elements for agriculture, — I do not doubt that a good result would follow. Intelligence in union with capital represents a power in England which has rendered possible and practicable things of much greater apparent difficulty.
Page 190 - Poyntes of Husbandrie ; By him then learne thou maist, here learne we must, When all is done we sleepe and turne to dust, And yet through Christ to heaven we hope to go, Who reades his bookes shall find his faith was so.
Page 180 - Carry stones to drains, and for roads. Continue the feeding of live stock as directed last month. Oilcake will now begin to be used : it much hastens fattening, and greatly improves the quality of the dung. Break or bruise the cake, and place it in troughs. Oats and salt are beneficially used along with the cake.
Page 89 - ... consumed by night in order to prevent accidents by choking when darkness prevents the observation. Wooden cribs with latticed bottoms are best for holding turnips, as the water and muddy filth find a ready escape downwards.
Page 190 - He spread his bread with all sorts of butter, yet none would stick thereon. Yet I hear no man to charge him with any vicious extravagancy, or visible carelessness, imputing his ill success to some occult cause in God's counsel.