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Page 12 - acre, according to the quality of the land and the mode of culture. It is sometimes cut green for soiling cattle and mules; and if properly done, so as not to injure the buds near the ground, it may be cut several times in a season.
Page 24 - through the most noted of his Progeny down to the Present TIme. With Numerous Portraits. To which are added Hints for Breeding, Breaking and General Use and Management of horses, with Practical Directions for
Page 289 - therefore, did not prove anything in favor of transmutation ; and as there were many possible ways In which the chess might have become scattered on the soil, the whole experiment was admitted by all parties to be Inconclusive. ¿ The claimant is, however, perfectly “ satisfied
Page 289 - to separate all chess seeds. It was placed In a pan, and several heads of wheat planted In It. When the wheat came up, it was subjected to all the hard treatment that usually produces winter-killing, viz., flooding with water, and alternately freezing and thawing for several
Page 84 - extends above the frame, and is squared, so as to allow the shIpping on It of a long beam, to the end of which an ox is harnessed, which, walking in a circle, gives motion to the rollers. The end of the cane is
Page 242 - In this form by the roots. The experiments of Sir Humphrey Davy on this point, appear conclusive ; that eminent chemist having shown that different plants and grasses grow much more luxuriantly when watered wIth solutions of sugar, than with common water ; the two liquids differing in nothing but the presence of carbon In the former, and Its absence in the latter.
Page 38 - himself with the novel and romantic aspects under which nature and society present themselves in that singular region. The following Novelets will then be given, though probably not in the exact order here mentioned THE STORY OF A COUNTRY GIRL. By
Page 239 - the beginning of the 16th century, and been confiscated to the crown in 1522, at which time it was 100 years old. A crown is placed on the box in which it is planted, with this
Page 246 - thus without fail sweeping them clean away. If you do not exert yourself to catch the grasshoppers, your guilt will be very great. Let it
Page 52 - plowed with horses. it may be interesting to some of your readers to know the result. I find that the implements exhibited by