British Farmer's Magazine, Issue 15James Ridgway, 1849 - Agriculture |
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... bones , the total quantity removed from the soil by fattening and growing animals must be considera- ble , when we consider the weight of cattle removed from a farm every year . The value of a crop of turnips may be estimated at £ 5 per ...
... bones , the total quantity removed from the soil by fattening and growing animals must be considera- ble , when we consider the weight of cattle removed from a farm every year . The value of a crop of turnips may be estimated at £ 5 per ...
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... bones . Suppose this be reckoned at 6d . per lb. , we have 200lbs . of bones , flesh , & c . , removed by an acre of turnips . As a large portion of the hay is consumed by the work - out one 400 - acre farm in Great Britain which pur ...
... bones . Suppose this be reckoned at 6d . per lb. , we have 200lbs . of bones , flesh , & c . , removed by an acre of turnips . As a large portion of the hay is consumed by the work - out one 400 - acre farm in Great Britain which pur ...
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... bones consist of- Phosphate of lime 66 Lime . Sulphate of lime , & c ..... 290 lbs . , or 90 lbs . of lime , and 200 lbs . of phosphoric acid . 38 72 400 lbs . " Now , the first effect of the mixture of the acid with this will be to ...
... bones consist of- Phosphate of lime 66 Lime . Sulphate of lime , & c ..... 290 lbs . , or 90 lbs . of lime , and 200 lbs . of phosphoric acid . 38 72 400 lbs . " Now , the first effect of the mixture of the acid with this will be to ...
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... bone - dust , if he will as supply is an essential element ; but the direct send to any bone - mill he will soon find that bone- supply of phosphoric acid shows that it is both a dust is not the animal matter of bones , but bones ...
... bone - dust , if he will as supply is an essential element ; but the direct send to any bone - mill he will soon find that bone- supply of phosphoric acid shows that it is both a dust is not the animal matter of bones , but bones ...
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... bones . I need only remind you of Why should not that £ 200,000,000 be brought into play ? these things to convince you that science , under the auspices The only feasible objection which I have heard to it is , that if of the Royal ...
... bones . I need only remind you of Why should not that £ 200,000,000 be brought into play ? these things to convince you that science , under the auspices The only feasible objection which I have heard to it is , that if of the Royal ...
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Page 250 - It may here be noticed that the practice of setting children prematurely to work, a practice which the state, the legitimate protector of those who cannot protect themselves, has, in our time, wisely and humanely interdicted, prevailed in the seventeenth century to an extent which, when compared with the extent of the manufacturing system, seems almost incredible. At Norwich, the chief seat of the clothing trade, a little creature of six years old was thought fit for labour. Several writers of that...
Page 250 - The more carefully we examine the history of the past, the more reason shall we find to dissent from those who imagine that our age has been fruitful of new social evils. The truth is that the evils are, with scarcely an exception, old. That which is new is the intelligence which discerns and the humanity which remedies them.
Page 106 - Now it is most true that if the golden rule of, " doing unto others as we would they should do unto us...
Page 63 - ... per pint when made in less quantities. The gruel on alternate days to be sweetened with £ oz. of molasses or sugar, and seasoned with salt.
Page 251 - The year 1685 was not accounted sickly ; yet in the year 1685 more than one in twentythree of the inhabitants of the capital died.* At present only one inhabitant of the capital in forty dies annually. The difference in salubrity between the London of the nineteenth century and the London of the seventeenth century is very far greater than the difference between London in an ordinary year and London in a year of cholera.
Page 374 - Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you ; even as the green herb have 1 given you all things.
Page 249 - For so miserable a recompense were the producers of wealth compelled to toil, rising early and lying down late, while the master clothier, eating, sleeping, and idling, became rich by their exertions.
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Page 249 - It is the vehement and bitter cry of labour against capital. It describes the good old times when every artisan employed in the woollen manufacture lived as well as a farmer. But those times were past. Sixpence a day was now all that could be earned by hard labour at the loom.