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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... Inspector in the Veterinary Department of the Privy Council , and Professor of Physiology and Therapeutics in the Royal Veterinary College XIX . - Report on the Contagious and Infectious Diseases of Animals referred to in the Contagious ...
... Inspector in the Veterinary Department of the Privy Council , and Professor of Physiology and Therapeutics in the Royal Veterinary College XIX . - Report on the Contagious and Infectious Diseases of Animals referred to in the Contagious ...
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... INSPECTOR- GENERAL OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS . ] METEOROLOGY . - 1872 . First Quarter ( January , February , March ) .- The warm weather which set in on December 13th , 1871 , continued with very few exceptions till the 18th March - then ...
... INSPECTOR- GENERAL OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS . ] METEOROLOGY . - 1872 . First Quarter ( January , February , March ) .- The warm weather which set in on December 13th , 1871 , continued with very few exceptions till the 18th March - then ...
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... Inspector - General of Imports and Exports , are as follow : -For wheat , 485 lbs . , or 4 cwts .; for barley , 400 lbs . , or 3 cwts .; for oats , 308 lbs . , or 2 cwts . Corn has been entered and charged with duty by weight instead of ...
... Inspector - General of Imports and Exports , are as follow : -For wheat , 485 lbs . , or 4 cwts .; for barley , 400 lbs . , or 3 cwts .; for oats , 308 lbs . , or 2 cwts . Corn has been entered and charged with duty by weight instead of ...
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... INSPECTORS and OFFICERS of EXCISE according to the Act of 27th & 28th VICTORIA , cap . 87 , in each of the FIFTY - TWO WEEKS of the Year 1872 . Week ending Wheat . Barley . Oats . Week ending Wheat . Barley . Oats . 8. d . s . d . 8. d ...
... INSPECTORS and OFFICERS of EXCISE according to the Act of 27th & 28th VICTORIA , cap . 87 , in each of the FIFTY - TWO WEEKS of the Year 1872 . Week ending Wheat . Barley . Oats . Week ending Wheat . Barley . Oats . 8. d . s . d . 8. d ...
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... inspector feels no hesitation in condemning it at once as unfit for human food ; but if it should happen , as it does sometimes , that diseased and unwholesome meat finds its way into the hands of the unscrupulous pork- butcher and ...
... inspector feels no hesitation in condemning it at once as unfit for human food ; but if it should happen , as it does sometimes , that diseased and unwholesome meat finds its way into the hands of the unscrupulous pork- butcher and ...
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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.