The Farmer's Guide to Scientific and Practical Agriculture: Detailing the Labors of the Farmer, in All Their Variety, and Adapting Them to the Seasons of the Year as They Successively Occur, Volume 1L. Scott & Company, 1853 |
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Pagina 410 - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up.
Pagina 18 - An April Flood Carries away the Frog and her Brood. A cold May and a windy Makes a full Barn and a Findy.
Pagina 19 - In summer or harvest, when the wind has been South two or three days, and it grows very hot, and you see clouds rise with great white tops like towers, as if one were upon the top of another, and joined together with black on the nether side, there will be thunder and rain suddenly.* If two such clouds arise, one on either hand, it is time to make haste to shelter.
Pagina 304 - ... O'er the still radiance of the lake below ; Tranquil its spirit seemed and floated slow ; Even in its very motion there was rest ; While every breath of eve that chanced to blow Wafted the traveller to the beauteous west. Emblem, methought, of the departed soul, To whose white robe the gleam of bliss is given ; And by the breath of mercy made to roll Right onward to the golden gates of Heaven ; Where to the eye of Faith it peaceful lies, And tells to man his glorious destinies.
Pagina 543 - It shocks every feeling of propriety to think that in a room, and within such a space as I have been describing, civilized beings should be herding together without a decent separation of age and sex. So long as the agricultural system, in this district, requires the hind to find room for a fellow-servant of the other sex in his cabin, the least that morality and decency can demand, is, that he should have a second apartment, where the unmarried female and those of a tender age should sleep apart...
Pagina 77 - Providence has endued them with privileges promoting fecundity which no other insects possess : at one time of the year they are viviparous, at another oviparous; and, what is most remarkable and without parallel, the sexual intercourse of one original pair serves for all the generations which proceed from the female for a whole succeeding year.
Pagina 18 - A shower in July, when the corn begins to fill, Is worth a plough of oxen, and all belongs there till.
Pagina 18 - A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay. A swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon. A swarm of bees in July is not worth a fly.
Pagina 378 - ... as if by the hand ; and so completely was the thatching pulled off, that the immediate removal of the corn became necessary. The sparrow and other birds burrow into the stack, and pilfer the corn ; but the deliberate operation of unroofing the edifice appears to be the habit of this bunting alone.
Pagina 7 - In the first place; dew is commonly more plentiful in spring and autumn, than in summer; the reason is, that a greater difference is generally found between the temperatures of the day and the night, in the former seasons of the year, than in the latter. In spring, this circumstance is...