British Farmer's Magazine, Issue 52James Ridgway, 1867 |
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Page 289 - Heaven. 330 So saying, with dispatchful looks in haste She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent What choice to choose for delicacy best, What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well joined, inelegant, but bring Taste after taste upheld with kindliest change...
Page 74 - Society was held at the Dr. Savage Institute, New York, on December isth, 1900, Mr. J. Blake Hillyer, president, in the chair. The minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed, the...
Page 238 - Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially, and not only facilitates the interchange of the various productions of nature and art, but tends to remove national and provincial antipathies, and to bind together all the branches of the great human family.
Page 249 - Welcome, to their roar! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead ! Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on; for I am as a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail.
Page 220 - This limestone is particularly characterised by its dull earthy aspect, and large conchoidal fracture ; in colour it varies in different beds from light slate blue, or smoke grey, to white : the former varieties usually constituting the upper ; the latter, the lower portions of the formation. The blue lias, which contains much iron, affords a strong lime, distinguished by its property of setting under water ; the white lias takes a high polish, and may readily be employed for the purposes of lithography.
Page 59 - Chairman (loud cheers), not only for the manner in which he has conducted the business of the meeting, but for the admirable essay with which he favoured us in the early part of the day (renewed cheers).
Page 41 - ... the destruction of oxygen from the vessel in which the meat is packed. All bone is extracted from the meat, but the fat is left. From the tins in which it is placed the air is exhausted by means of water forced in at the bottom, which, when it reaches the top, is allowed to redescend and run off, and the vacuum thus left is filled from above by a certain gas, the composition of which is kept a profound secret. The two holes at top and bottom are carefully soldered down, and the meat is then ready...
Page 100 - ... inactive. The Crab is a native of both countries, and has adapted alike its habits to both ; the Siberian variety introduced into the climate of England, retains its habits, expands its leaves, and blossoms on the first approach of spring, and vegetates strongly in the same temperature in which the native Crab scarcely shows signs of life; and its fruit acquires a degree of maturity, even in the early part of an unfavourable season, which our native Crab is rarely, or never seen to attain.
Page 174 - ... extent. CALENDAR OF GARDENING. KITCHEN GARDEN. Hot-beds of dung and leaves, or of leaves only, collected by rakings and scrapings from roads and woods, contain much withered grass, and are now to be used for raising melons and cucumbers, and for obtaining early potatoes and asparagus. Time nor materials are...
Page 142 - That the direct result of the general application of town sewage to grass land would be an enormous increase in the production of milk (butter and cheese) and meat, whilst by the consumption of the grass a large amount of solid manure, applicable to arable land and crops generally, would be produced.