The Cultivator, Том 5

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New York State Agricultural Society, 1848

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Страница 325 - West pretend to give the very year when the honey-bee first crossed the Mississippi. The Indians with surprise found the mouldering trees of their forests suddenly teeming with ambrosial sweets, and nothing, I am told, can exceed the greedy relish with which they banquet for the first time upon this unbought luxury of the wilderness.
Страница 333 - ... for others. He takes again to his own bed. but he is continually shifting his posture. He begins to gaze strangely about him as he lies on his bed. His countenance is clouded and suspicious. He comes to one and another of the family, and he fixes on them a steadfast gaze, as if he would read their very thoughts.
Страница 120 - ... or peculiarity of habit may be, we consider them all as having originated from a few accidental varieties of the common pigeon, and not from any cross of that bird with other species, no signs or marks whatever of such being apparent in any of the numerous varieties known to us. In fact, the greater part of them owe their existence to the interference and the art of man ; for by separating from the parent stock such accidental varieties as have occasionally occurred, by subjecting these to captivity...
Страница 78 - A more lively and quickly operating manure ia better for the onion ; one that will give them an early start, and advance them as fast as possible, in the first part of the season. The utmost vigilance and activity is used by our cultivators in getting their land ready, at an early period of the season, for the reception of the seed. It is the first field labor of the Spring. The use of compost manure will depend much upon the constituents of the soil with which it is mixed. If the soil be a sandy...
Страница 301 - The crossing of the pure breeds has been a subject of great interest of late amongst every class of breeders. While all agree that the first cross may be attended with good results, there exists a diversity of opinion upon the future movements, or putting the crosses together. Having tried experiments (and I am now pursuing them for confirmation) in every way possible, I do not hesitate to express my opinion, that, by proper and judicious crossing through repeated generations, a most valuable breed...
Страница 293 - There is something very singular in the fructification of the fig. it has no visible flower: for the fruit arises immediately from the joints of the tree, in the form of little buds, with a perforation at the end, but not opening or showing any thing like petals, or the ordinary parts of fructification.
Страница 235 - Abr. 392, that the king has nothing in an highway, but a passage for himself and his people ; but the freehold and all the profits belong to the owner of the soil.
Страница 106 - As the season advanced, I carefully watched the progress of my cornfield. In the early part of the season it did not exhibit a very promising appearance ; but, as soon as the roots had extended into the enriching matter beneath, and began to expand in the decomposing sward, which had now become mellow, and more minutely divided by the fermentation of the confined vegetable substances beneath than it...
Страница 152 - They are enduring and energetic beyond description; with their necks cut to the bone, they flinch not ; they put forth all their efforts at the voice of the brutal driver or at the dreaded sound of his never-ceasing whip ; they keep their condition when other horses would die of neglect and hard treatment. A better cross for some of our horses cannot be imagined than those of Normandy, provided they have not the ordinary failing of two much length from the hock downward, and a heavy head.
Страница 78 - ... furrow. The mingling and subdivision of it, is effected by the use of the harrow. Whether it would not be advantageous occasionally, to stir the land to the full depth of the soil, is a point on which there is a difference of opinion ; most of the cultivators inclining to the use of shallow ploughing only. There are some facts tending to show, that occasional deep stirring of the soil, does no harm to the onion crop, but on the contrary is decidedly beneficial. As for instance, onions do better...

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