The Family Receipt Book |
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Author:
| Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-29357-0 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $19.99 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Their labour and their fodder ought to be so proportioned, that their health and their spirits are kept in full tone. Their coats ought to be sleek; their hides loose and silky; the flank should fill the hand; and the shoulder handle mellow. If they he overworked or underfed, disease and sluggishness must...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Their labour and their fodder ought to be so proportioned, that their health and their spirits are kept in full tone. Their coats ought to be sleek; their hides loose and silky; the flank should fill the hand; and the shoulder handle mellow. If they he overworked or underfed, disease and sluggishness must inevitably follow. A working ox ought always to be beef, that, in case of accident, he may. grace, at least, the poor man's table. If oxen be introduced into a horse-team country, not only attention, but some address is necessary. SECT. VI?MANURES. Manure for Clover. Some farmers make it a rule to spread about fifty bushels per acre of ashes over their clover in March, which they find, from long experience, to be a good manure for this grass. Wood-ashes will be useful on any soil; coal-ashes chiefly on stiff clays. On the stiff soils of some parts of Buckinghamshire, ashes of all kinds are much esteemed, and have risen to a high price. 16. Utility of Pigeon's Dung as a Manure. Pigeon's dung will improve moist meadows very much by extirpating bad kinds of grasses, bringing white clover in its stead, and augmenting the crop. 17. v For Compest Dunghills. Mix one hundred loads of earth with ten chaldrons of lime (a chaldron is thirty-six bushels) a- boutMay; let them lie together until the lime is fallen, but not ran to mortar; then turn it over: lay seventy loads of stable dung close to it. When the dtmg is in a high putrid heat, which will perhaps be in four months, lay a layer of this and a layer of earth, two thirds of manure to one of earth, and so go through the hill; turn it over in the spring, and lay it on in March or April; eight loads on an acre of grass. 18. Another Compost. Mix lime and earth as before, and turn it; then cover it with so...