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The Quarterly Journal of Agriculture Willian Blaackwood Aand Sons. Edinburgh Esikatselu ei käytettävissä - 2015 |
The Quarterly Journal of Agriculture Willian Blaackwood Aand Sons. Edinburgh Esikatselu ei käytettävissä - 2015 |
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1st January Aberdeen Aberdeenshire acre afforded agriculture Alexander animal appear Arthur Young average Ballater barley Bart best ditto-The Premium Birkhall breed bushels Campbell caterpillars chemistry Chidham clay clover cock's-foot colour considerable corn Crested dog's-tail crop cultivation Davy draining dung duty earth Edinburgh experiments falconry farm farmer favourable feet fiorin Five Sovereigns flour garden George Girth Glasgow grain grass gravel ground Haddington horses important improvement inches insect interest James John kind Kinmundy labour land larvæ Leith Hall lime loam manure meadow means Merchant moth nature nutritive matter Oats observed pasture Pease perennial rye-grass plants plough potatoes practice premium of Five produce quantity remarks Robert roots salmon salt Scotland season seeds sheep shew Sinclair Society soil sown species Strichen substances tenant tion trees turnips vegetable wheat William winter young
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Sivu 238 - That at this rate they have conveyed upwards of fourteen passengers. " 3. That their weight, including engine, fuel, water, and attendants, may be under three tons. " 4. That they can ascend and descend hills of considerable inclination with facility and safety.
Sivu 25 - That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest.
Sivu 302 - ... power in others ; and power was sympathy, and sympathy power. When the dead and the unknown, the great of other ages and of distant places, were made, by the force of the imagination, my companions and friends ; when every voice seemed one of praise and love; when every flower had the bloom and odour of the rose ; and every spray or plant seemed either the poet's laurel, or the civic oak — which appeared to offer themselves as wreaths to adorn my throbbing brow. But, alas ! this cannot be...
Sivu 25 - It purifies it by distillation, when it raises it in vapors, and lets it fall in rain ; and farther still by filtration, when, keeping it fluid, it suffers that rain to percolate the earth. We knew before, that putrid animal substances were converted into sweet vegetables, when mixed with the earth, and applied as manure ; and now it seems, that the same putrid substances, mixed with the air, have a similar effect. The strong thriving state of your mint, in putrid air, seems to show, that the air...
Sivu 298 - The death and decay of animal substances, tend to resolve organized forms into chemical constituents : and the pernicious effluvia disengaged in the process, seem to point out the propriety of burying them in the soil, where they are fitted to become the food of vegetables. The fermentation and putrefaction of organized substances in the free atmosphere, are noxious processes ; beneath the surface of the ground, they are salutary operations.
Sivu 291 - It has been said, and undoubtedly with great truth, that a philosophical chemist would most probably make a very unprofitable business of farming ; and this certainly would be the case, if he were a mere philosophical chemist ; and unless he had served his apprenticeship to the practice of the art, as well as to the theory. But there is reason to believe, that he would be a more successful agriculturist than a person equally uninitiated in farming, but ignorant of chemistry altogether ; his science,...
Sivu 55 - STATE and PROSPECTS of BRITISH AGRICULTURE ; being a Compendium of .the Evidence given before a Committee of the House of Commons, appointed in 1836, to inquire into Agricultural Distress. With a few Introductory Observations.
Sivu 302 - ... in mid-day sunshine, — what would I not give ! — All that I have gained in an active and not unprofitable life. How well I remember that delightful season, when, full of power, I sought for power in others ; and power was sympathy, and sympathy power; when the dead and the unknown, the great of other ages and...
Sivu 301 - I am sure, been very salutary to the body, and, I hope, to the mind. I have always found a peculiar effect from this kind of life; it has appeared to bring me back to early times and feelings, and to create again the hopes and happiness of youthful days.
Sivu 646 - Thirty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given to the...