The Farmer's Magazine. Volume the Third. July to December, MDCCCXXXV |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 80
Page 14
... favourable bull dog and leaving him to the fury of his corni- opportunity is allowed to escape ; and then con- gerous antagonist , with a full dependence on his stipation , so universally known and as universally former proved courage ...
... favourable bull dog and leaving him to the fury of his corni- opportunity is allowed to escape ; and then con- gerous antagonist , with a full dependence on his stipation , so universally known and as universally former proved courage ...
Page 15
... favourable omen . On the 16th March , 1834 , I was sent for by Mr.hibited by the pericardium : a portion of it was Wright , of Stonnall , near Lichfield , to examine a heifer that he had purchased about a fortnight pre- viously . I ...
... favourable omen . On the 16th March , 1834 , I was sent for by Mr.hibited by the pericardium : a portion of it was Wright , of Stonnall , near Lichfield , to examine a heifer that he had purchased about a fortnight pre- viously . I ...
Page 44
... favourable opportunity . My anticipa- tion of their having been tainted with rot proved well founded . In every case that came under my observation , I found the liver much reduced in size , the lobes of some quite wasted away . Nu ...
... favourable opportunity . My anticipa- tion of their having been tainted with rot proved well founded . In every case that came under my observation , I found the liver much reduced in size , the lobes of some quite wasted away . Nu ...
Page 51
... favourable notice of the Legislature the strong claim which the agricultural body have for protection and consideration justly en- Mr. PARKER in returning thanks , said that the credit ought to be given rather to the other members of ...
... favourable notice of the Legislature the strong claim which the agricultural body have for protection and consideration justly en- Mr. PARKER in returning thanks , said that the credit ought to be given rather to the other members of ...
Page 60
... favourable , and the preceding burning suns unfavourable . Oak and oak bark lower than last year by about 10 or 15 per cent . What will be done for agriculture generally re- mains to be known , evidently it is and has been a bad ...
... favourable , and the preceding burning suns unfavourable . Oak and oak bark lower than last year by about 10 or 15 per cent . What will be done for agriculture generally re- mains to be known , evidently it is and has been a bad ...
Common terms and phrases
acre agricultural agriculturists animal appear average Bank of England barley bill bred breed breeder bull bushels cattle cause Cheers consequence considerable corn corn laws crop cultivation currency distress districts ditto duty effect England ewes exhibited fair farm farmers favourable flour gentlemen grain grass harvest heifer honour horses House improvement increase interest Ireland Irish John labour lambs Lancashire land landlord Lincolnshire Lord malt manufacturers manure means meeting ment months oats obtained opinion parish Parliament paupers persons plants plough Poor Law potatoes premium present prize produce quantity relief rent returned thanks Richard Pilkington Scotland season seed shearling sheep short-horns silver Sir JAMES GRAHAM society soil sold sovereigns sown Suffolk supply tenant tion tithes trade turnips union water-meadow weather wheat whole wool workhouse
Popular passages
Page 355 - An Act to repeal an Act of the present Session of Parliament, intituled ' An Act for the more effectual Abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in various Departments of the State, and to substitute Declarations in lieu thereof, and for the more entire Suppression of voluntary and extra-judicial Oaths and Affidavits;' and to make other Provisions for the Abolition of unnecessary Oaths.
Page 229 - Their superiority over the country gentleman is, not so much in their knowledge of the public interest, as in their having a better knowledge of their own interest than he has of his. It is by this superior knowledge of their own interest that they have frequently imposed upon his generosity, and persuaded him to give up both his own interest and that of the public, from a very simple but honest conviction, that their interest, and not his, was the interest of the public.
Page 108 - In the year 1622 a board of trade was erected, as the commission states, " to remedy the low price of wool, and the decay of the woollen manufactory." It is recommended to the commissioners to examine " whether a greater freedom of trade, and an exemption from the restraint of exclusive companies, would not be beneficial.
Page 229 - As during their whole lives they are engaged in plans and projects, they have frequently more acuteness of understanding than the greater part of country gentlemen. As their thoughts, however, are commonly exercised rather about the interest of their own particular branch of business than about that of the society...
Page 108 - Dutch, who gained, it was pretended, 700,000/. annually by this manufacture. The king,- at the instigation of Cockayne and some other London merchants, issued a proclamation prohibiting the exportation of raw cloths : the Dutch and Germans met this piece of legislation by prohibiting the importation of English dyed cloth ; the consequence...
Page 252 - Kew, gave such a description of them as made me instantly resolve to work in these gardens. The next morning, without saying a word to any one, off I set, with no clothes except those upon my back, and with thirteen halfpence in my pocket I found that I must go to Richmond, and I accordingly went on from place to place, inquiring my way thither.
Page 104 - States, shall be reported to the collector, or other chief officer of the customs at the port of...
Page 252 - The title was so odd that my curiosity was excited. I had the threepence, but then I could have no supper. In I went and got the little book, which I was so impatient to read that I got over into a field at the upper corner of Kew Gardens, where there stood a haystack ; on the shady side of this I sat down to read.
Page 252 - I had lost somehow or other, left threepence in my pocket. With this for my whole fortune, I was trudging through Richmond, in my blue smock-frock and my red garters tied under my knees, when, staring about me, my eye fell upon a little book in a bookseller's window, on the outside of which was written :
Page 355 - EVIDENCE. tarily making the same before him, in the form in the schedule to this act annexed, and if any declaration so made shall be false or untrue in any material particular, the person wilfully making such false declaration shall be guilty of misdemeanor.