British Farmer's Magazine, Issue 49James Ridgway, 1865 |
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Page 166 - ... partly of the fractured and rolled bones of cetaceous and other animals, with some fish-teeth, and chiefly of rolled water-worn pebbles, which were formerly supposed to be the fossilized excrements of saurian and other animals, for which reason they were called coprolites. Professor Buckland, however, showed that they are not true fossil excrements, but in all probability calcareous pebbles which have undergone a peculiar metamorphosis, and become impregnated with phosphoric acid by long-continued...
Page 242 - Act, are to be disposed of; and also for the purpose of causing notices to be given of the appearance of any disorder among sheep, cattle, or other animals...
Page 112 - The right way to dispose of town sewage is to apply it continuously to land, and it is only by such application that the pollution of rivers can be avoided.
Page 242 - Cattle, or other Animals, and to make any other Orders or Regulations for the Purpose of giving Effect to the Provisions...
Page 242 - ... of any animals, or of hay, straw, fodder, or other articles likely to propagate infection ; and also for the purpose of purifying...
Page 241 - An Act to prevent, until the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and to the end of the then session of Parliament, the spreading of contagious or infectious disorders among sheep, cattle, acd other animals.
Page 243 - Correspondence of the Bath and West of England Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
Page 142 - Hughes, that the following gentlemen, with power to add to their number, be requested to act as such provisional committee, namely : — Mr.
Page 241 - And for the more effectually preventing the spreading of contagious or infectious disease be it enacted that it shall be lawful for the Lords and others of Her Majesty's Privy Council, or any two or more of them, from time to time, to make such orders and regulations as to them may seem necessary for the purpose of prohibiting or regulating the removal to or from such parts or places as they may designate in such order or orders, of sheep, cattle, horses, swine, or other animals, or of meat, skins...
Page 101 - Originally the milk received at the pioneer factory was wholly purchased by the manufacturers, it being estimated and paid for by the amount of curd it produced when pressed. This plan failed to give entire satisfaction to the dairymen because of differences of opinion upon its prospective value in the fall market, but furnished sufficient data for determining every item of expense attending the manufacture and for deducing the cardinal features of the commission method. Hence the dairymen were left...