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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... Cakes . By Dr. AUGUSTUS VOELCKER , F.R.S. In the course of a long experience in ... cake , with a little linseed , and hardly deserving the name of oilcake ... rape , and other feeding cakes , together with bran , rice - husks , oat ...
... Cakes . By Dr. AUGUSTUS VOELCKER , F.R.S. In the course of a long experience in ... cake , with a little linseed , and hardly deserving the name of oilcake ... rape , and other feeding cakes , together with bran , rice - husks , oat ...
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... cake . Amongst the weed - seeds in commercial linseed I have found the following : - 1. Rape - seed ( Brassica Rapa ) . 2. Indian rape ( Sinapis glauca ) . When rape - seed occurs in linseed - cake in appreciably large proportions , it ...
... cake . Amongst the weed - seeds in commercial linseed I have found the following : - 1. Rape - seed ( Brassica Rapa ) . 2. Indian rape ( Sinapis glauca ) . When rape - seed occurs in linseed - cake in appreciably large proportions , it ...
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... cake is very hard pressed , and conse- quently rather deficient in oil . This description of oil - cake , however ... Rape - cake , ground or earth- nut - cake , earth - nut - husks , decorticated and undecorticated cotton- cake , beech ...
... cake is very hard pressed , and conse- quently rather deficient in oil . This description of oil - cake , however ... Rape - cake , ground or earth- nut - cake , earth - nut - husks , decorticated and undecorticated cotton- cake , beech ...
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... cake which turned out to be Indian rape - cake , it is now seldom sold for feeding purposes , but is either bought for manuring purposes , or em- ployed for adulterating linseed - cake or preparing mixed feeding- cakes . The best rape - ...
... cake which turned out to be Indian rape - cake , it is now seldom sold for feeding purposes , but is either bought for manuring purposes , or em- ployed for adulterating linseed - cake or preparing mixed feeding- cakes . The best rape - ...
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... rape - cake , but have not yet met with it in linseed - cake . 17. Indigo - seed - Cake . - A few years ago I received for exami- nation a cake which was described to me as ... cake , it appears from the 28 Pure and Mixed Linseed - Cakes .
... rape - cake , but have not yet met with it in linseed - cake . 17. Indigo - seed - Cake . - A few years ago I received for exami- nation a cake which was described to me as ... cake , it appears from the 28 Pure and Mixed Linseed - Cakes .
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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.