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Page 7
... roots of plants , readily distinguishable by their form and dark colour . The soil apart from the rootlets was nearly white , heating in an open platinum capsule appeared to be a whitish sand tinged very faintly yellow by a trace of ...
... roots of plants , readily distinguishable by their form and dark colour . The soil apart from the rootlets was nearly white , heating in an open platinum capsule appeared to be a whitish sand tinged very faintly yellow by a trace of ...
Page 20
... roots are said to flourish quite as well when the seed is sown under unpropitious meteorologic influences , as when it is got in during the finest weather . It may be as well to mention here that on the small Flemish farms everything is ...
... roots are said to flourish quite as well when the seed is sown under unpropitious meteorologic influences , as when it is got in during the finest weather . It may be as well to mention here that on the small Flemish farms everything is ...
Page 21
... roots get a tolerably large size ; for owing to the practice of sowing broadcast , the plants must be weeded and thinned over and over again . there is any liquid manure to spare , this is the crop to which it is applied ; and the rude ...
... roots get a tolerably large size ; for owing to the practice of sowing broadcast , the plants must be weeded and thinned over and over again . there is any liquid manure to spare , this is the crop to which it is applied ; and the rude ...
Page 39
... root- course does not comprise sugar - beet , or at an advanced rent if he intends to grow that root , the difference ... roots . Fences are rare in this district ; and it is extremely difficult to infer , except sometimes by the culture ...
... root- course does not comprise sugar - beet , or at an advanced rent if he intends to grow that root , the difference ... roots . Fences are rare in this district ; and it is extremely difficult to infer , except sometimes by the culture ...
Page 40
... root - course generally consists of potatoes , mangolds , or sugar - beet , and a portion devoted to one or more crops which cannot come under the designation of roots , namely , colza , * flax , beans , or oats ; but where these are ...
... root - course generally consists of potatoes , mangolds , or sugar - beet , and a portion devoted to one or more crops which cannot come under the designation of roots , namely , colza , * flax , beans , or oats ; but where these are ...
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Page 106 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Page 418 - Report of the Commissioners appointed in 1868 to inquire into the best means of preventing the pollution of Rivers (Mersey and Ribble basins).
Page 85 - Commission on the employment of children, young persons, and women in agriculture — "fearful to contemplate.
Page 567 - And We do hereby grant our especial licence and authority unto all and every person and persons, bodies politic and corporate, (otherwise competent,) to grant, sell, alien, and convey in mortmain, unto and to the use of the said Society, and their successors, any messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, not exceeding such annual value as aforesaid.
Page 567 - VICTORIA, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith; to all to whom these presents shall come greeting...
Page 197 - That whoever shall knowingly sell to any person or persons, or sell, deliver, or bring to be manufactured to any cheese or butter manufactory in this State, any milk diluted with water, or in any way adulterated, or milk from which any cream has been taken, or milk commonly known as "skimmed milk," or shall keep back any part of the milk known as "strippings,.
Page lxviii - Kent, has been elected a Member of Council to fill the vacancy caused by the election of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, KG, as a Vice-President.
Page 567 - ... to make it fit into the wooden box, invert the open box over it, press down firmly, then pass a spade under the box and lift it up, gently turn over the box, nail on the lid, and send by rail.
Page 567 - Society ;" and for the purposes aforesaid, and by the name aforesaid, shall have perpetual succession and a Common Seal, with full power and authority to alter, vary break, and renew the same at their discretion, and by the same name, to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be -answered unto...