The Farmer's Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Technical Terms Recently Introduced Into Agriculture and Horticulture from Various Sciences, and Also a Compendium of Practical Farming, the Latter Chiefly from the Works of the Rev. W. L. Rham, Loudon, Low and Youatt, and the Most Eminent American Authors

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Daniel Pereira Gardner
Harper, 1846 - 876 Seiten
 

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Seite 401 - Hide-bound is a very appropriate term for the peculiar sticking of the hide to the ribs when a horse is out of condition. The subcutaneous adipose matter is all absorbed. The alterative above recommended will be very useful here.
Seite 146 - ... cheeses, called Bath cheeses and Yorkshire cheeses, which are sold as soon as made, and if kept too long become soft and putrid. Stilton and Gruyere cheeses are intermediate ; Parmesan, Dutch, Cheshire, Gloucestershire, and similar cheeses, are intended for longer keeping. The poorer the cheese is, the longer it will keep ; and all cheese that is well cleared from whey, and sufficiently salted, will keep for years. The...
Seite 150 - This being done, the cheese is again reversed into another vat, likewise warmed, with a cloth under it, and a tin hoop, or binder, put round the upper edge of the cheese, and within the sides of the vat; the former being previously inclosed in a cloth, and its edges put within the vessel.
Seite 698 - The quarters long and full, and as with the fore legs the muscles extending down to the hock ; the thighs also wide and full. The legs of a moderate length, the pelt also moderately thin, but soft and elastic, and covered with a good quantity of white wool, not so long as in some breeds, but considerably finer.
Seite 391 - ... frequently has recourse ; but that prompt and eager response to the slightest intimation of the rider's will— that manifest aim to anticipate every wish, that gives to the horse so much of his value — must be built on habitual confidence and attachment. The education of the horse should be that of the child. Pleasure should be as much as possible associated with the early lessons ; while firmness, or, if need be, coercion must establish the habit of obedience. The breaking being accomplished,...
Seite 561 - ... it were, the upper and lower teeth of the serratures together ; their leaves, when taken from a branch of a vigorous growth, have more glands than the leaves of the globose varieties. It will, however, sometimes happen that glands are not discernible on some of the leaves, especially on those produced on weak branches; in this case, other branches must be sought for which do produce them.
Seite 53 - The arms of the lever being equal, it follows, that if equal weights be put into the scales, no effect will be produced on the position of the balance, and the beam will remain horizontal. If a small addition be made to the weight in one of the scales, the horizontality of the beams will be disturbed ; and, after oscillating for some time, it will, on attaining a state of rest, form an angle with the horizon, the extent of which is a measure of the delicacy or sensibility of the balance.
Seite 147 - The Gruyere and Parmesan cheeses only differ in the nature of the milk, and in the degree of heat given to the curd in different parts of the process. Gruyere cheese is entirely made from new milk, and Parmesan from skimmed milk. In the first nothing is added to give flavour : in the latter saffron gives both colour and flavour ; the process in both is exactly similar.
Seite 730 - ... constant, agitation, but not sufficiently rapid to carry along with it coarse gravel or sand. Wherever there is an obstruction to the current, and an eddy is formed, there the soil is deposited in the form of mud, and, gradually accumulating, forms those alluvial soils which are so remarkable for...
Seite 124 - England, a good cow should produce six pounds of butter per week in summer, and half that quantity in winter, allowing from six weeks to two months for her being dry before calving ; that is, 120 Ibs.

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