Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of EnglandRoyal Agricultural Society of England, 1873 - Agriculture Vols. for 1933- include the societys Farmers' guide to agricultural research. |
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... average of 101 years ; that of February was 44 ° -8 or 6 ° .3 higher than the average , and the mean temperature of March was 44 ° 6 or 37 in excess of the average . The mean tem- perature in the three months ending February ...
... average of 101 years ; that of February was 44 ° -8 or 6 ° .3 higher than the average , and the mean temperature of March was 44 ° 6 or 37 in excess of the average . The mean tem- perature in the three months ending February ...
Page ii
... average daily . From the 6th of May to the 12th of June , with the exception of three or four days of moderate warm weather at the end of May , the weather was cold , the sky mostly cloudy , the nights of low temperature with hoar frost ...
... average daily . From the 6th of May to the 12th of June , with the exception of three or four days of moderate warm weather at the end of May , the weather was cold , the sky mostly cloudy , the nights of low temperature with hoar frost ...
Page iii
... average temperature of these three months differs less than of a degree from the average of the same months in the preceding 30 years . The mean temperature of April , May , and June , was 48 ° .3 , 50 ° • 9 , and 59 ° 2 respectively ...
... average temperature of these three months differs less than of a degree from the average of the same months in the preceding 30 years . The mean temperature of April , May , and June , was 48 ° .3 , 50 ° • 9 , and 59 ° 2 respectively ...
Page iv
... average . The fall of rain was 0.1 inch and 1.0 inch , respectively , in defect in July and September , but 0-3 inch ... average of 101 years ; that of November was 45 ° -3 , or 3 ° .0 higher than the average , and that of December was ...
... average . The fall of rain was 0.1 inch and 1.0 inch , respectively , in defect in July and September , but 0-3 inch ... average of 101 years ; that of November was 45 ° -3 , or 3 ° .0 higher than the average , and that of December was ...
Page v
... averages were 0-172 in . , 0-252 , and 0.397 respectively . It is very rarely that such a long period of continuous ... average fall of rain from all stations was 13.97 inches , being more than double of the fall in the corresponding ...
... averages were 0-172 in . , 0-252 , and 0.397 respectively . It is very rarely that such a long period of continuous ... average fall of rain from all stations was 13.97 inches , being more than double of the fall in the corresponding ...
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Page 89 - ... would require four hundred years, and as much phosphoric acid as would require thirtytwo years, and as much potash as would require eighty-two years of ordinary rotation with home manuring, and selling only corn and meat, to remove. Again, in the experiments of the Rev. Mr. Smith, of...
Page xcv - ... to make it fit into the wooden box, invert the open box over it, press down firmly, then pass a spade under the box and lift it up gently, turn over the box, nail on the lid, and send by rail.
Page 333 - In the first place it will be observed that, in three of the five occasions on which all the other drains ran freely, no result is given for the farmyard manure plot. The fact is that, whilst the pipe-drains from every one of the other plots in the experimental wheat-field run freely, perhaps four or five or more times annually, the drain from the dunged plot seldom runs at all more than once a year, and in some seasons not at all.
Page 421 - ... but I may be allowed to observe, in passing, that what, before the blight of the potato crop, was a matter of undeniable usefulness, is now, by this casualty, made a matter of indispensable necessity. We are called upon in some districts, under the penalty of famine, to teach our people modes of cultivating better crops...
Page 96 - ... luxuriance or to maturation, that is, to quantity or to quality as the case may be. Hence, only a very detailed consideration of climatic statistics, taken together with careful periodic observations in the field, can afford a really clear perception of the connection between the everfluctuating characters of season and the equally fluctuating characters of growth and produce. It is, in fact, the distribution of the various elements making up the season, their mutual adaptations, and their adaptation...
Page 137 - June were not quite so hot as in 1868; and the average temperature of the whole period, from the middle of January to the end of June, was only exceeded in 1822. Concurrently with this long-continued warm weather, there was, as already said, a great excess of rain in January, and only moderate amounts in February and March ; there was a small excess in April, a deficiency in May, and a very great deficiency in June. Temperatures in excess of the average^also prevailed almost continuously throughout...
Page 223 - a local authority may, if they think fit, cause to be slaughtered any animal that has been in the same shed or stable, or in the same herd or flock, or in contnct with any animal affected with cattle plague within their district.
Page 97 - ... characters of season and the equally fluctuating characters of growth and produce. It is, in fact, the distribution of the various elements making up the season, their mutual adaptations, and their adaptation to the stage of growth of the plant, which throughout influence the tendency to produce quantity or quality. It not unfrequently happens, too, that some passing conditions, not indicated by a summary of the meteorological registry, may affect the crop very strikingly ; and thus the cause...
Page 223 - ... of the value of the animal immediately before it was affected with cattle plague, as to the local authority seems fit.