British Farmer's Magazine, Issue 45James Ridgway, 1863 - Agriculture |
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Page 350 - LORD of the harvest ! once again We thank Thee for the ripened grain ; For crops safe carried, sent to cheer Thy servants through another year ; For all sweet holy thoughts supplied By seed-time, and by harvest-tide.
Page 252 - Butler's famous tautology that " . . . . the value of a thing Is just as much as it will bring...
Page 234 - Bridport (chairman) presented the report, from which it appeared that the Secretary's receipts during the past mouth had been duly examined by the committee, and by Messrs.
Page 136 - Indeed this hath been a very glorious mercy ; — and as stiff a contest, for four or five hours, as ever I have seen.
Page 136 - But it avails not. Through Sudbury Gate, on Cromwell's side, through St. John's Suburb, and over Severn Bridge on Fleetwood's, the Scots are driven-in again to Worcester Streets ; desperately struggling and recoiling, are driven through Worcester Streets, to the North end of the City, — and terminate there. A distracted mass of ruin : the foot all killed or taken ; the horse all scattered on flight, and their place of refuge very far ! His sacred Majesty escaped, by royal oaks and other miraculous...
Page 4 - Considerable increase of produce was only obtained by means of farmyard-manure, or artificial manures containing both mineral constituents and ammonia-salts or nitrates. The crops so obtained were much more Graminaceous, and consisted in much greater proportion of but a few species of plants. The grasses developed were chiefly of the more bulky and...
Page 75 - To get up the hay to a high stack when building, use a scaffold placed on four upright posts, resting below on a fourwheeled platform, and elevate or depress the scaffolding by means of pulleys to any height that may be required. Lay some loose straw on the extreme top of the rick till thatched.
Page 317 - Act, 1851," shall extend and apply to this Act and to all proceedings in relation thereto ; and it shall not in any such proceedings be necessary to allege or prove the ground or other place where an offence is committed to be the property of or occupied by any person : Provided always, that the convicting justices or...
Page 203 - The woollen manufactures of Maryland exhibit an increase of 86 per cent. In Ohio, which produced in 1850 a greater value of woollens than all the other western States, there was a decrease on the product of 1850, owing, probably, to the shipments of wool to Europe, which, in 1857, was found to be the most profitable disposition of the rapidly increasing wool crops of that State. In Kentucky, now the largest manufacturer of wool in the west, the product was $1,128,882, and the increase in ten years...
Page 117 - Some permanent buildings are now erected at Toronto, Hamilton, London, and Kingston, respectively, for the express purpose of holding annual exhibitions. In 1862, the annual meeting was held at Toronto, and permanent provision made for stabling 198 horses and 435 head of cattle. The amount of prizes offered exceeded 1,600 dollars. Such is the progress which has been made during fifteen years, in bringing together the different industries...