Agriculture of Maine: Annual Report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture, Band 5,Teil 1860 |
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acre Agricultural Society amount animals awarded barley better Bowdoinham bred breeders bull bushels bushels per acre cattle color committee cords corn Cotswold cows crop cross cultivation dairy Dead river Devon disease draining Durham early ewes exhibition fact farm farmers fatten feed feet female fence fertility flock fruit grain grass green manure ground grown growth harrowed heifer Hereford hill hinny horses improvement inches deep insects irrigation Kennebec Kennebec county Kennebec river labor land less lime loam Maine male manure Merino milk Norridgewock North Somerset oats offspring oxen parent pasture planted ploughed plowed potatoes pounds practice produce profit progeny Readfield remarks river says season second best Second premium seed sheep sheep husbandry Short-horn sire Skowhegan soil Somerset Somerset county South Downs sowed sown spring surface tion trees underdraining varieties Waldoboro wheat winter wool yield
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Seite 84 - If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked. 9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
Seite 75 - Not a single domestic animal can be named which has not in some country drooping ears ; and the view suggested by some authors, that the drooping is due to the disuse of the muscles of the ear, from the animals not being much alarmed by danger, seems probable.
Seite 75 - I find in the domestic duck that the bones of the wing weigh less and the bones of the leg more, in proportion to the whole skeleton, than do the same bones in the wild duck; and this change may be safely attributed to the domestic duck flying much less, and walking more, than its wild parents.
Seite 66 - had a puppy taken from its mother at six weeks old, who, although never taught, ' to beg' (an accomplishment his mother had been taught), spontaneously took to begging for everything he wanted when about seven or eight months old: he would beg for food, beg to be let out of the room, and one day was found opposite a rabbit hutch begging for rabbits.
Seite 134 - In these woolds (Cotswold) they feed in great numbers flocks of sheep, long necked and square of bulk and bone, by reason (as is commonly thought) of the weally and hilly situation of their pasturage, whose wool, being most fine and soft, is held in passing great account amongst all nations.
Seite 96 - ... ewe impregnated by an Ancon ram follows entirely the one or the other, without blending any of the distinguishing and essential peculiarities of both. Frequent instances have happened where common ewes have had twins by Ancon rams, when one exhibited the complete marks and features of the ewe, the other of the ram. The contrast has been rendered singularly striking, when one short-legged and one long-legged lamb, produced at a birth, have been seen sucking the dam at the same iirae."—Philosophical...
Seite 112 - ... views of the object he seeks to accomplish, and has duly studied the principles on which it can be carried out, and is determined to bestow for the space of half a life-time his constant and unremitting attention to the discovery and removal of defects.
Seite 66 - The direct inheritance of an acquired peculiarity is sometimes observable. Mr Lewes gives a case. He " had a puppy taken from its mother at six weeks old, who, although never taught, ' to beg' (an accomplishment his mother had been taught), spontaneously took to begging...
Seite 77 - Mauchamp wool is remarkable for its qualities as combing-wool, owing to the strength, as well as the length and fineness of the fibre. It is found of great value by the manufacturers of Cashmere shawls and similar goods, being second only to the true Cashmere fleece, in the fine flexible delicacy of the fibre ; and when in combination with Cashmere wool, imparting strength and consistency.
Seite 135 - This breed was formerly of a small size, and far. from possessing a good shape, being long and thin in the neck, high on the shoulders, low behind, high on the loins, down on the rumps, the tail set on very low, perpendicular from the hipbones, sharp on the back ; the ribs flat, not bowing ; narrow in the fore-quarters, but good in the leg, although having big bone.