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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... quantities in private stores , a very large portion of it so inferior in quality that it was found to be almost ... quantity of inferior still on hand . The supply of foreign butter in July was about the average ; in August with ...
... quantities in private stores , a very large portion of it so inferior in quality that it was found to be almost ... quantity of inferior still on hand . The supply of foreign butter in July was about the average ; in August with ...
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... quantity of English cheese left on hand in June , high rates were obtained . New American found buyers fast to hand . In July , the season for fine old English may be said to be brought to a close , and the weather this season has been ...
... quantity of English cheese left on hand in June , high rates were obtained . New American found buyers fast to hand . In July , the season for fine old English may be said to be brought to a close , and the weather this season has been ...
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Royal Agricultural Society of England. STATEMENT of the QUANTITY and VALUE of BUTTER imported from the UNITED STATES ... Quantities . Computed Real Value . Quantities . Computed Real Value . Cwts . £ . Cwts . 1864 142,672 780,024 466,988 ...
Royal Agricultural Society of England. STATEMENT of the QUANTITY and VALUE of BUTTER imported from the UNITED STATES ... Quantities . Computed Real Value . Quantities . Computed Real Value . Cwts . £ . Cwts . 1864 142,672 780,024 466,988 ...
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... quantity to a number of store cattle . Most of the animals , fortunately , would not touch it , but of those who partook of it , 3 died and others suffered more or less from the effects of the irritating essential oil of mustard . From ...
... quantity to a number of store cattle . Most of the animals , fortunately , would not touch it , but of those who partook of it , 3 died and others suffered more or less from the effects of the irritating essential oil of mustard . From ...
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... quantity of oil . It is poorer in albu- minous compounds than barley - meal , and scarcely as valuable for feeding purposes . 24. Rice - Meal . - In preparing rice for the market various descriptions of rice - meal are obtained ...
... quantity of oil . It is poorer in albu- minous compounds than barley - meal , and scarcely as valuable for feeding purposes . 24. Rice - Meal . - In preparing rice for the market various descriptions of rice - meal are obtained ...
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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.