THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND, VOLUME THE FISRT1865 |
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Page 69 - Folliculorum, as given by its discoverer, Dr. Simon, I determined to proceed to a verification of his discoveries, and being provided with an instrument probably superior to that employed by Dr. Simon, I have succeeded in making out certain points of structure that had escaped his observations. I was not long in obtaining subjects ; almost every face I met with supplied me with abundance, and the difficulty seems to be, not to find the creature, but to find any individual, with the exception, according...
Page 267 - Since my attention has been drawn to this fact, numerous instances have come under my observation tending to confirm this opinion. From among the cases which I could mention, it will probably be sufficient for me to state that of a breeder of some eminence, who, with a view to an improvement in the condition of his herd, added molasses to the dry food he gave to his stock. It certainly produced the result he anticipated, for their appearance and general condition were most satisfactory ; but this...
Page 308 - Moisture 4-72 Organic matter and water of combination .. .. 11-03 Oxides of iron 9-98 Alumina ' 6'06 Carbonate of lime 12'10 Sulphate of lime -75 Magnesia and alkalies 1'43 Soluble silica (soluble in...
Page 39 - It is described as generally attacking the feet and legs ; but, according to Capt. Hancock, it will penetrate any exposed part of the body. At first it occasions no farther uneasiness than a slight itching and heat ; in process of time, however, a small bladder or membranous sac is formed, containing the nits or ova, which speedily multiply to such a degree as to be attended by the most fatal consequences, rendering amputation necessary, and sometimes causing death.
Page 489 - To take measures for the improvement of the education of those who depend upon the cultivation of the soil for their support.
Page 48 - Having filled the bath, the first lot of sheep are sometimes thrown in one by one until it is full ; but mostly they are precipitated from the pen situated above it by tipping the floor. Men are placed around the bath, who keep the sheep moving about, and occasionally, by means of crutches with which they are furnished, they push the heads of the sheep under the water. The sheep are thoroughly soaked in three or four minutes. "The door communicating with the 'run' is then lifted up, and the sheep...
Page 273 - As the portions are finished they are protected from the action of the sun and atmosphere by a covering of straw ; when the whole bottom of the pond is so covered with an efficient and impermeable coating or puddle, a layer of broken chalk is placed upon it to prevent its injury by cattle or other means.
Page 279 - Treatise,' defines artesian wells as " perpetually flowing fountains, obtained by boring a small hole through strata that are destitute of water into lower strata loaded with subterranean sheets of this important fluid, which ascends by hydrostatic pressure through pipes let down to conduct it to the surface.
Page 267 - It certainly produced the result he anticipated, for their improvement in appearance and general condition was most satisfactory; but this was accompanied by an influence he had never expected; for his stock, which had always realized high prices as breeding stock, now, with very few exceptions, proved to be valueless for that object, male and female being alike sterile.
Page 165 - Society's funds permit, separate prizes should be offered for thorough-bred sires, adapted, 1. For getting hunters; 2. For carriage-horses; 3. For park-horses, chargers, or hacks. Prizes in each of these classes would then be assigned to animals differing much in character, but no longer, as at present, to the best race-horse, or according to the rather puzzling and peculiar condition of the prize-sheet, " to the horse best calculated to perpetuate the breed of the sound and the stout thorough-bred...