The Year-book of Agriculture: Or The Annual of Agricultural Progress and Discovery for 1855 and 1856. Exhibiting the Most Important Discoveries and Improvements in Agricultural Mechanics, Agricultural Chemistry, Agricultural and Horticultural Botany, Agricultural and Economic Geology, Agricultural Zoology, Meteorology, &c. Together Wth Statistics of American Growth and Production, a List of Recent Agricultural Publications, Classified Tables of American Agricultural Patents for 1854-55, a Catalogue of Fruits Adapted to the Different Sections of the United States, &c. With a Comprehensive Review, by the Author, of the Progress of American and Foreign Agriculture for the Year 1855. Illustratd with Numerous EngravingsChilds & Peterson, 1856 - 399 pages |
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Page 200 - The Art of Preserving all kinds of Animal and Vegetable Substances for several gears. Published by order of the French Minister for the Interior, in the Report of the Board of Arts and Manufactures.
Page 185 - by the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those crops to the life of which that one constituent is indispensable ". These and other amplifications in the third edition, 1843, gave rise to much controversy.
Page 290 - European literature ; but he very often uses the symbolical effect of the flower, which it can only have on the educated mind, instead of the natural and true effect of the flower, which it must have, more or less, upon every mind. Thus, when Ophelia, presenting her wild flowers, says : " There's rosemary, that's for remembrance ; pray you love, remember : and there is pansies, that's for thoughts : " the infinite beauty of the passage depends upon the arbitrary meaning attached to the flowers.
Page 364 - in the union of the bones to their epiphyses. As long as the bones are not united to their epiphyses the animal grows ; as soon as the bones are united to their epiphyses the animal ceases to grow.
Page 210 - Massachusetts was erected at Beverly, by John Cabot and others ; but such were their difficulties, that in three years they were almost compelled to abandon the enterprise. As a last resort, they petitioned the legislature for assistance, and the committee to whom the subject was referred reported in favor of granting them one thousand pounds sterling, to be raised by a lottery ! In 1786, two Scotch brothers, named Robert and Alexander Barr, erected carding and spinning machines for Mr. Orr, at East...
Page 9 - This American machine literally devoured the sheaves of wheat. The eye cannot follow the work which is effected between the entrance of the sheaves and the end of the operation. It is one of the greatest results which it is possible to attain. The impression which the spectacle produced on the Arab chiefs was profound.
Page 191 - ... consume this kind of provender. The advantages attained by this method of making hay are sufficiently obvious. By this means all the constituents of the grass are retained in a state of integrity ; the sugar, by the absence of the water, is protected from undergoing decomposition ; the coloring matter of the grass is comparatively little affected, while the soluble salts are not exposed to the risk of being washed out by the rains, as in the common process of hay-making.
Page 191 - Rye grass contains, at an early period of its growth, as much as 81 per cent. of water, the whole of which may be removed by subjecting the grass to a temperature considerably under that of boiling water ; but, even with a heat of 120°, the greater portion of the water is removed, and the grass still retains its green color, a character which appears to add greatly to the relish with which cattle consume this kind of provender.
Page 323 - England — let the water on while the weather is coldest, and then take it off as it moderates. Sometimes, in the eastern states, the cranberries are destroyed by a frost in September; where water is convenient and plenty, the meadow could be flowed on cold nights at this season, as well as in the spring.
Page 252 - ... masses, weighing each from a few grains to several ounces. These soon bleach and whiten upon exposure to the light of the sun, finally becoming nearly colorless, semitransparent, and often filled with minute fissures. Specimens collected from the trunks of the trees were generally found to be less pure and more highly colored than when obtained from the branches. The gum may be collected during the months of July, August, and September ; but the most favorable period for that purpose is in the...