The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - Natural history |
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... causes . In the month of February particu- lar caution is requisite . If the water be suffered to remain many days together upon the land , a white scum , extremely perni- cious , is the consequence ; and if the land be exposed ...
... causes . In the month of February particu- lar caution is requisite . If the water be suffered to remain many days together upon the land , a white scum , extremely perni- cious , is the consequence ; and if the land be exposed ...
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... one of the cheapest of all improvements . From whatever cause land may be over- run with moss plants , or covered with fern , rushes , and ant hills , it should be subjected for some time to the plough , as no other AGRICULTURE .
... one of the cheapest of all improvements . From whatever cause land may be over- run with moss plants , or covered with fern , rushes , and ant hills , it should be subjected for some time to the plough , as no other AGRICULTURE .
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... cause and remedy . Some kinds of this root , however , it is almost unanimously agreed , are less susceptible of the ... causing it ; frost , insects , the planting from sets of unripe and large pota- toes , the planting in old and ...
... cause and remedy . Some kinds of this root , however , it is almost unanimously agreed , are less susceptible of the ... causing it ; frost , insects , the planting from sets of unripe and large pota- toes , the planting in old and ...
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... cause this may proceed , should be fully weighed . Ruin may easily follow the want of adverting to these and other considerations , and they cannot therefore be too strongly impressed on the sanguine adventurer . A flat deep bog , in a ...
... cause this may proceed , should be fully weighed . Ruin may easily follow the want of adverting to these and other considerations , and they cannot therefore be too strongly impressed on the sanguine adventurer . A flat deep bog , in a ...
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... cause so dan- gerous and fatal where they are neglected . When ewes are about to lamb , their keep should be of the most nourishing kind , con- sisting of plenty of turnips or cabbage . Till this period they may do without them . But ...
... cause so dan- gerous and fatal where they are neglected . When ewes are about to lamb , their keep should be of the most nourishing kind , con- sisting of plenty of turnips or cabbage . Till this period they may do without them . But ...
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