Dew Point
Dew Point. In The Article On Dew, We Showed The Manner In Which Dew Is Deposited, And Some Of The Phenomena Connected There With. It Will Only Be Necessary Here To Say That The Temperature At Which Dew Begins To Form Is Called The Dew Point. This Is A Temperature ...
Dipetalous
Dipetalous Exogens—tfie Petal Mostly Tinct. Ranunculus Bulbasus. Buttercup, Bulbous Crowfoot, (p). Thie Foreigner Is Extenaively Naturalized In Graaa Plota, Meadowa, And Low Ground Paaturea Along Our Atreama, Where It Ia Regarded Aa A Nuisance By The Farmers. The Fleahy Bulb Is Highly Acrid, And The Plant When Once Intro Duced ...
Diseases Of Yard
Yard, Diseases Of. Diseases Of The Sex Organs Of Both Horses And Mares Are Not Uncom Mon, And For The Rea,son That Stallions Are Given Undue And Exhaustive Co:mection Together With Artificial Surroundings In Care And Exercise. The Trouble Generally Is External And Internal In Flammation Of The Yard, And ...
Disinfectants
Disinfectants. In Addition To What May Be Found, In The Body Of This Work, Upon Disinfection In Connection With The Diseases Of Animals, The Following Will Be Found Valuable: The Value Of Chloride Of Lime And Sulphuric Acid, Which Form The Most Effectual Disinfecting Material, Is Here Expressed By- 100, ...
Disinfection
Disinfection. Disinfection Is Very Differ Ent In Its Action From Deodorizing, Previously Treated Of, Since To Properly Disinfect We Must Absolutely Destroy The Poison Germs, Many Of Them Of The Most Virulent Nature. These Sources Of Infection Are Generally So Subtile As To Be Entirely Unobserved By Our Special Senses. ...
Draining
Draining. The Subject Of Drainage Is One Of The Most Important That Can Interest The Farmer. Modern Appliances Aided By Science Has Now Ren Dered The Task Of Thorough Drainage So Simple And Easy That There Seems No Excuse For Allowing The Soil To Lie Water-soaked, For Perhaps Two Or ...
Drenches
Drenches. The Giving Of Medicines In A Liquid Form, Is Called Drenching. A Common Utensil From Which To Give, Is A Horn Properly Prepared. A Strong, Long Necked Bottle Is Better. In Giving The Dose, Hold The Animal's Head Up So The Line Of The Nose Is Horizontal. Draw Out ...
Drought
Drought. The Question Of Moisture Sufft Cient For The Growth Of Plants, In Particular Sea Sons Especially, Is One Of The Most Important Prob Lems Which The Farmers Beyond A Line One Hundred Miles West Of The Mississippi, Have To Solve. As We Proceed West The Integer Becomes An Increas ...
Duck
Duck. Anas. The Family Comprises Many Varieties. The Domestic Varieties, As Compared To The Wild, Are But Few. The Most Import Ant Of The Domesticated Ducks Are, The Mal Lard, The Aylesbury, The Rouen, The Musk, Or Brazilian Duck, Incorrectly Called Muscovy, And Also Guinea Duck, The Black East Indian, ...
E Iii Family Strigid
Iii. Family Strigid.,e, (the Owls). Genus Strisic, Outs. Barn Owl. Winter Reeident, Rsre ; Carnivorous. "i Am Satisfied That Our Bird Feeda Entirely On The Smaller Apecies Of Quadrupeds " (aud.) Thia, Of Comae, Refere To Mice And Other Nocturnal Animale. Genus' Bubo. Great Horned Owl Resident, Frequent: Carnivorous. "ita ...
E Sapindace
Sapindace,e. ..esculus &bra. Ohio Buckeye. Tennessee And Wed, Ern States. This Tree Attains, In Favorable Aituatione, Twenty To Thirty Feet Height, And Is Much In Use Aa An Ornamental Tree. It Is Not Found Wild Eaet Of The Alle Gheny Mountains; Its Favorable Locality Being The Banks Of The Western ...
E The Sparrows Xx
Xx. Family Fringillid.,e (the Sparrows). Genus Pinicola. Pine Grosbeak. Winter Resident Very Rare; Granivorous. Its Food Consists Of Linds And Seeds Of Almost Every Sort Of Trees, And Occasionally A Passing Insect. Genus Carpodacus. Purple Finch. Winter Resident, Frequent; Granivorous. Its Food Is Chiefly Seeds And Berries Of Red Cedar, ...
Earth
Earth. In An Agricultural Sense, Earth Is Clay, Saud, Loam, Peat, Hog Earth, Etc., In A Mixture Seldom Pure, Comprising Various Soils Adapted To The Growth Of Plants. Mold, On The Contrary, Is Humus Earth, Or That Arising From The Decomposition Of Barnyard Manure, Leaves, Or Other Vegetable Substances. Except ...
Effect Of Air And
Plants, Effect Of Air And Light On. White Is Said To Be No Color At All. It Is, However, Tangible Enough To Our Sense Of Sight. It Would Seem To Be The Primary Color, Because The So-called Decolorization Of A Substance Results In White. Air And Water, In A Fluid ...
Efflorescence
Efflorescence. Some Salts, Like Car Bonate Of Soda Or Soda Ash, By Exposure To Air Lose Their Transparency, And Become White, Crum Bling Into Powder. This Is Termed Efflorescence. In Geology The Appearance Of Crystals Upon Earthy, Rocky,or Other Mineral Surfaces, Is Termed Efflorescence. Egg. Birds And Most Insects And ...
Egg Plant
Egg Plant. Solanum Melongena. The Solanum Family Furnishes Two Of The Most Valu Able Plants For The Use Of Man, The Potato And Egg Plant. The Tomato Was Originally Classed As A Solanum, But Now Is Classed A•-; A Lycopersicum, The Cultivation Of The Egg Plant Is Of Very Ancient ...
Elater
Elater. Click-beetle, Spring-beetle. Ela Terides. This Beetle, From Its Habit Of Suddenly Springing In The Air, And Landing On Its Feet When Placed On Its Back, Is Well Known, Especially Among Children. The Larvae Are All Destructive From Their Habit Of Feeding On The Roots Of Vege Tation, And Should ...
Electricity
Electricity. This Is One Of The Most Important And Potent Forces In Nature, And Especially Interesting To The Agriculturist, Now That It Is Known To Be A Valuable Factor In The Growth Of Plants, And Also In Its Various Action In The Phenomena Of Nature As Affecting Rainfall, The Formation ...
Elements
Elements. In Chemistry, Bodies Which Have Never Been Decomposed Or Resolved Into. Their Components By Artificial (chemical) Means. Elm. F'iinus. The Elm Is One Of The Most Beautiful Of American Trees, When Planted Singly. In Fact, It Is The Most Beautiful, Size And Grace Of Form And Beauty Being Especially ...
Eleven Grasses Or Clovers
For Sitmmer And Early Autumn, Eleven Grasses Or Clovers. 1. Avena Flavescene. 7. Holcus Lanatue. 2. Hordeum Pretense. 8. Trifolium Pretense. 3. Cfnoanrns Eriatatua. 9. Trifolium Repena. 4. Festuca Durivacula. 10. Lathyrue Pratensis. 5. Poa Trivialie. 11. Festuca Glabra. 6. Poe Pratensie. For Al7titmn, Four Species. 1. Agroetie Etolonifera. 3. ...
Emarginate
Emarginate. In Botany, Notched, Having A Sharp Indentation On The Leaf, Etc. Emasculate. To Castrate. Animals, Viz. : Oviparous, Viviparous, And Spon Taneous Generation. Oviparous Generation Was That Form In Which The Female Parent Produced Eggs, From Which The Young Were Hatched, As In Most Fish, Reptiles, And Birds. Viviparous ...
Endive
Endive. Chicorium Endivia. This Plant, In Great Repute In Europe, Is Used For Salads, The Blanched Leaves Being The Edible Part. It Is A Hardy Annual, Said To Have Come Originally From China,. The Seeds Are Sown Early In Spring In A Mellow, Prepared Bed And, When They Have Attained ...
Endogenous
Endogenous Plants—inside Growers Symplocarptts Fietidus. Swamp Cabbage, Skunk Weed, (p.) A Worthless Native Weed In Wet And Swampy Mea Dows, Readily Known By Its Skuuklike Odor When Wounded. Saggittaria Cariabilie. Arrow-head, (p.) A Common Native Plant Of No Value, Found In Sluggish Ditches And Swampy Meadows. The Roots, Or Hase ...
English Blood Horse
Blood-horse, English. The History Of The Blood-horse In England Has Been So Accurately And Carefully Traced By The Late William Henry Herbert, One Of The Most Accomplished Writers Of Horses And Field Sports, In America,from An Eng Lishman's View, That We Accept Therefrom So Much As Will Give A Correct ...
English Draft Horse
English Draft Horse. The Old Black Cart Horse Of England, Was One Of The Distinc Tive Breeds Of English Horses, From An Early Period. They Are Hardly Knqwn In The United States As A Distinctive Breed, Although They Have Undoubtedly Exercised More Or Less Influence On The Ordinary Work Horses ...
Enteritis
Enteritis. Inflammation Of The Bowels. In The Article Colic, Is Presented The Difference In Symptoms Between Colic And Inflammation Of The Bowels, And For The Reason That The Latter Is Often Mistaken For The Former. In Fact, Ignorant Stablemen Seem Fond Of Calling Any Difficulty Of The Internal System Belly-ache, ...
Entomology
Entomology. This Is The Science Which Treats Of The Habits, Transformations, And Physical Structure Of Insects; Or The Science Or Natural History, And Description Of Insects. An Insect Is An Articulate Animal Form, Having The Body Com Posed Of Three Distinct Parts, The Head, Corslet Or Thorax, And Abdomen ; ...
Ericacex
Ericace.x. Vacciniumarboreum. Farkleberry. Virginia And South Ward. A. Shrub Or Small Tree Oometirnea Twenty Feet High, Growing From Virginia Aud Southern Illinois Southward. Oxydendrum Arborewm. Sourwood Or Sorrel-tree. Pennsylvania And Southward. This Tree Grows Chiefly In The Mountainous Districts Of The Alleghamea Trom-penn Sylvania Southward. In Fertile Valleya, At The ...
Erysipelas
Erysipelas. This Is An Inflammation Of The Skin And Tissues Beneath Which, In A Malig Nant Form, Spreads Largely And Forms Abscesses. A Wound For Instance, Will He Found Hot,swollen, Tender And Shining. This Extends About The Sur Face, And Often Deep Into The Muscular Tissue. The Surface Will Be ...
Etc Plants
Plants, .etc., Used In Medicine. The Following Complete List Gives The Botani Cal Names In Alphabetical Order, And The Com Mon Names And Synonyms Of Plants, Etc., Used In Medicine. It Will Be Valuable For Reference: Achillea Millefolium—yarrow, Milfoil, Tbonaand Leaf. Aconitum Napellus—aconite, Monkabood, Wolfabane. Aetcea Alba—white Cohoab, White Beads, ...
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus. None Of The Species Of Eucalyptus Are Capable Of Standing The Climate Of The United States, Except The Warmer Parts Of Florida And Some Portions Of California. Ten Degrees Of Frost Will Kill Them. E. Globulus, Or The Blue Gum Tree Of New South Wales Is A Fast Growing, ...
Evaporation
Evaporation. Vapor Is Passed Off From Water, Or Moisture Contained In Any Matter, In Just Proportion To The Heat Applied, And The Dryness Of The Air. Air Saturated With Mois Ture, Can Take Up No More, And Then The Vapor Of Evaporation In Being Passed Off, Becomes Condensed On The ...
Experiment
Experiment. Experiments In Agricul Ture Are, And Must Necessarily Always Be, Of Supreme Value, Since The Art Must Ever Be Pro Gressive, And Varieties And Conditions Ever Changing. The Testing Of New Varieties Should Be Carried Forward Every Year. More Or Less, And By Every Farmer; For, Only By This ...
Fairs
Fairs. The Systematic Holding Of Agricul Tural Fairs Is Comparatively A Modern Idea. Fairs As They Have Existed For A Long Time In Europe, Have Been Until Lately, Devoted Almost Solely To Barter And Sale. During The Last Century These Have Steadily Dwindled In Importance, As Com Merce And Better ...
Fall Web Worm
Fall Web Worm. Hyphantria Textor. This Is A Common Caterpillar. And Particularly Annoying From Its Habit Of Forming Its Large Webs, Not Only On Forest Trees But Also On Fruit Trees, August Being The Season Wnett They Are Formed In The North. The Caterpillar Is Green Ish-yellow, Dotted With Black, ...
Family
Family Sylvioo.,ld,e: American Warblers. Black And-white Cr Epin" Warbler (jfniotilla Darla); Blue Yellow-backed Warh"ler (parula Americana); Prutheno Tary Warbler (protonotaria Citrea) ; Worm-eating Warb Ler (llelmitherusvermivorus); Blue-winged Yellow Warb Ler(helminthophaga Pinue); Blue Golden-winged Warb Ler (h. Chryaoptera); Nashville Warbler (ii. Rufaca Puta)• Virginia's Warbler (h. Verginia); Tennessee Warbler (h. Peregrina); ...
Family Colopleridzo X
X, Family Colopleridzo, (the Genus Tyrannus. Kingbird Fly-catcher. Summer Resi Dent, Common; Insectivorous. Beetles, Grasshoppers, Crickets, And Winged Insects Of All Descriptions Form His Principal Summer Food; In Autumn Berries Constitute A Favorite Repast. Reader, See Him. Perched On An Old Mullen Stalk, Watching All Around, And Capturing Every Insect ...
Farm Accounts
Farm Accounts. One Of The Most Curious Facts, In Agricultural Economy, Is, That Probably Not One Farmer In Ten Ever Keeps A Correct Book Account Of Debit And Credit On The Farm. Conse Quently His Only Means Of Knowing Which Crops Pay Best, Or In Fact Which Pay At All, ...
Farming
Farming. To Those Who Can Look Back To The Days When The Labors Of The Farm Were The Merest Drudgery; When. A One-horse And A Two Horse Plow, A Harrow, The Crudest Hoes, Rakes, Scythes, And Reaping Cradles Constituted The Working Implements Of The Farm, And Compare Those Of To-day, ...
Farms And Crops
Farms And Crops. The Animus Of The Present Age Is Toward The Concentration Of Capital In Gigantic Enterprises. Thus Within The Last Fifty Years Immense Establishments Have Grown Up For The Extensive Manufacture Of Almost Every Article Required, Either For Ornament Or Use. Agricultural Enterprises, As A Matter Of Course, ...
Feeding
Feeding. The Proper And Economical Feed Ing Of Live Stock Has Always Attracted The Close -study Of Intelligent Stock-growers. The Time Has Long Since Passed When It Is Considered True Economy To Allow Young Stock To Shift For Them Selves Without The Intelligent Care Of The Master, And Proper Feeding. ...
Fence Laws
Fence Laws. In Nearly Or Quite Every _state In The Union There Are Laws Defining What Legal Fences Shall Be. In Some Of The States, As In Illinois, The Law Leaves It For Towns, Villa Ges, Counties, And Communities To Define What The Fence Shall Be, Or Whether There May ...
Fences And Fencing
Fences And Fencing. The Fences Of The Country Are Estimated To Be Worth More, As To Cost Of Making And Repairing, Than Are All The Buildings Erected. So Onerous Is The Cost Of Fences That In All Districts, Where Timber Is Scarce Embankments Protected By Barriers Of Various Kinds Have ...
Fermentation
Fermentation. Fermentation Is That Decomposition Or Decay Which Apparently Acts Spontaneously On Animal And Vegetable Sub Stances, Involving Heat And A Rapid Evolution Of Gas. The Primary Cause Of Fermentation Is From Microscopic Fungi, Acting As A Ferment. Thus Any Organic Body, Not Living, In The Presence Of Moisture And ...
Fertilizers
Fertilizers., The Necessity Of Fertilizers For Worn Land Is Generally Acknowledged Even By The Most Ignorant; But Very Many—otherwise Good Farmers—fail To Appreciate The Advantage Of Applying Manure While Yet The Soil Is In A State Of Vigorous Fertility, In Order To Keep It So, And Also To Still Further ...
Feverfew
Feverfew. Pyrethrum; From Pyr, Fire, The Roots Being Hot To The Taste. Of This Interesting European Genus Of Plants, The Matricaria Of Linneeus, Three Species Only Are Indigneous To England. The Common Feverfew, (p. Parthe Nium), A Biennial Which Grows In Waste Grounds, Hedges, And Walls, Flowering In June Or ...
Fiber
Fiber. This Is A Term Used To Designate The Filaments Or Slender Threads That Constitute The Substance Of The Bones, Cartilages, Ligaments, Membranes, Nerves, Veins, Arteries And Muscles, And The Slender Threads Composing The Structure Of Plants, And Found Also In Minerals, Is Termed Fiber. Any Fine, Slender Root, Thread ...
Fine Wooled Sheep
Fine Wooled Sheep. The Introduction Of Fine Wooled Sheep Into The United States Dates From Early In The Century, Through Im Portations Of The Best Individuals To Be Obtained From Spanish Flocks, And Later, Of French Merinos, Saxon, And Silesian. Judicious Breed Ing For Many Years Has Resulted In What ...
Fish Breeding
Fish Breeding. The Subject Of Fish Breeding Has Attracted, Increased Attention From Year To Year, And As A Productive Industry It Has Assumed Large Proportions, Especially Since Improved Means Of Transportation For The Eggs Have Been Largely Perfected. So Between Arti Ficial Fecundation And Artificial Spawning Beds, The Operator Or ...
Flax
, Flax. Since The Introduction Of The Cotton Gin, Cotton Goods Have Largely Supplanted The Use Of Linen. Up To The Period Of The .ast War With Great Britain, Flax, For Manufacturing Into Goods For Wear, Was Generally Raised By Farmers And Spun By Their Families. The Census Of 1810 ...
Flea Beetle
Flea Beetle. Under The Name Flea Beetle, There Are Several Species Of The Hal Flea Family. The Cucumber Flea Beetle (h. Ceounteris) Is Said To Be Often Largely Injurious To Potato Vines. Dr. Fitch Thinks This, Ii. Cuellmeris, And H. Pubescens Is The Same. This Species Certainly Attack The Potato. ...
Floriculture
Floriculture. The Increasing Taste For •the Cultivation Of Flowers Not Only In Our City And Village Gardens But At Our Rural Homesteads, Is Evidence Not Only Of Progress In Refinement And Material Wealth, But Also Of Correct Appre Ciation Of The Beautiful In Nature, And The Goodly Influences They Bring ...
Flowers
Flowers. The Most Beautiful Parts Of Plants And Trees, Which Contain The Organs Of Fructification. (see Botany.) From Their Fre Quent Utility As Medicinal Drugs, As Well As Their. External Beauty, The Cultivation Of Flowers In Our Gardens Becomes An Object Of Some Impor Tance. Flowers Are Many Of Them ...
Food
Food, In Relation To Hunger And Thirst. Food Consists Of Substances Taken Into The Stomach For The Purpose Of Digestion, Or Of Con Version Into Blood. Food Is Rendered Necessary By The Waste Of The System. Food Is The Primary Source Of Nervous And Muscular Power. Food Which Supplies Calorific ...
Forestry
Forestry. The Planting Of Trees For Economical Purposes Is Denominated Forestry. The Destruction Of Forests In The March Of Civilization Was Long Ago Recognized As An Injury By European Governments, And Remedial Means Have Been Long Since Employed In Their Reinstate Ment By Artificial Planting. This Almost All The European ...
Foul Brood
Foul Brood. Foul Brood In The Hives Of Bees Has Become A Source Of Serious Annoyance To Many Bee-keepers. The Following Digest Of The Subject, From A Number Of Sources, Will Show The Result Of Some Of The Later Investigations Upon This Subject: Putrid Foul Brood Is A Dis Ease ...
Founder
Founder. This Disease Is An Inflammation Of The 'sensitive Parts Of The Foot, Sometimes It Eluding The Laminae, The Sole And Also The Foot Ifene. Hence The Name Laminitis, And Also In Flammation Of The Feet, And Fever In The Feet. In Slight Cases Only One Fore Foot May Be ...
French Horses
French Horses. The Ordinary Mixed Breeds Of French Horses Require No Notice. The Arden Horse Has Many Good Points As A Work Horse. The Distinctive Breeds That Have Acquired Celebrity, Are The Norman And The Percheron, Sometimes Called Norman-percheron. Of These The Principal Difference Seems To Be In The Fact ...
Frontlet
Frontlet. In Ornithology, The Part Of The Head Next The Bill, Usually Covered With Bristles. Frost. In The Article Dew We Noticed Frost Incidentally. Frost Is Crystallized Vapor, And Can Only Fall On Clear, Still Nights, When The Atmos Phere Is In Repose, And The Radiation Strong. Thus, The Atmosphere ...
Fungus
Fungus. To The Botanist The Fungi Are A Most Interesting Class Of Plants. Their Seeds, (spores) And Many Of The Resulting Plants Are So Small That They Must Be Examined With The Microscope To Bring Out Their Character. What Are Understood As Funguses By The Ordinary Observer, Are Toad- Stools ...
Gallizing
Gallizing. Adding Sugar And Water To The Must Of Grapes Containing Too Large A Propor Tion Of Acid And Tannin, As The Concord And Clin Ton, And Fermenting It Therewith Is Ealled Galliz Ing, After Its Inventor, Dr. Gall. Another Means, Adding Sugar And Water To The Husks, After The ...
Galloway Cattle
Galloway Cattle. It Is More Than Probable That Representatives Of This Hornless Race Of Cattle Were Early Brought To America By The English And Seoteh Settlers Since, As A Boy. We Often Found This Blood Cropping Out In What Were Then Termed Muley Cows, And, As A Rule, They Were ...
Game Fowls
Game Fowls. While It Is A Fact That The Game Fowl Is The Most Elegant And Intelligent Of The Gallinaceous Tribe Of Barnyard Fowls, It Is As True That They Are Not Generally Liked By Farmers, On Account Of Their Pugnacious Dispositions. In Fact They Can Not Be Kept With ...
Gamopetalods Exogens Petals More Or
Gamopetalods Exogens--petals More Or Less 'united. Sambucus Canadensis. Common' Elderbrish, (s.) This Indigenous Shrub Is Very Tenacious Of Life, And Inclined To Spread Ezteneively Aloog Fence-rows And Hedges, Giving The Premises A Very Slovenly Appearance. Dipsacus Sytreetris. Mill Teasel, Wild Teasel, (b.) This Coarse European Weed Is Completely Naturalized In ...
Gardener
Gardener. (see Gardening.) Gardening. The Term Gardening Is Used To Designate The Cultivation Of Culinary Plants, Flowers, And The Adornment Of The Landscape. Thus We Have In Special Branches Of These Elegant And Fascinating Branches Of Agriculture, Kitchen Gardeners, Who Raise Vegetables Solely For Private Use, Or, As In The ...
Garget
Garget. This Is An Inflammation Of The Udder, And May Attack The Suckling Females, Of Any Farm Stock, But Is Principally Confined To Cows And Ewes. It Is Not Common That The En Tire Udder Is Attacked, The Inflammation Being Confined Generally To One Or Two Sections. There Will He ...
Gases And Ofatmosphere
Atmosphere, Gases And Of. The Invisible Fluid Surrounding The Earth Is Termed The Atmosphere. It Is Composed Of Oxygen 20.84 And Nitrogen 79.16, In 100 Parts Water, In The Form Of Vapor, And Carbonic Acid Gas Is Also Held Mechanically, The Former Aver Aging One Per Cent., But Varying With ...
Gastritis
Gastritis. This Is The Name Applied To Impaction Of The Third Stomach In Ruminants, Also Called Stomach Staggers And Mawhound. It Is The Distention Of The Third Stomach (omasum) With Undigested Food, And May Be Followed By Congestion, And Inflammation Of The Lining Mem Brane Extending Even To The Fourth ...
Gates
Gates. There Are Few More Important Con Veniences About A Farm, And Certainly Compara Tively Few Farms That Are As Well Supplied As They Should Be With Free Swinging Gates, That Will Remain Open Without Sagging. The Cause Of The Sagging Is From The Settling Of The Post, Or From ...
Generation
Generation. The Production Of Life Has Always Been A Favorite Study Of Scientific Minds. All Labor, However, To This End, Has Really Added Little To Our Knowledge Of The Genesis Of Life. The Theory Of Spontaneous Gen Eration Has Been A Favorite Dogma With Many Superior Minds, And Yet, Again, ...
Geology
Geology. Geology As An Agency In The For Mation Of Soils Is An Interesting Study To The Farmer. By It He May Not Only Form A Definite Opinion As To The Nature Of The Soil, By Knowing What Earths Are Produced By The Decomposition Of Certain Rocks, And The Elements ...
Geranium
Geranium. Geraniums Have Come To Be As Indispensable Bedding And Decorative Plants, As They Are Beautiful In Their Variety Of Rich Bloom, In The Garden And Green House. They Are Now Broken Up Into So Many Ornamental Va Rieties, Single, Semi-double And Double, And In The Rich Variety Of Coloring ...
Germination
Germination. The Physical Changes Dur Ing The Germination Of Seeds Has Long Been A Careful Study By Students Of Vegetable Physiology. In The Germination Of Seeds Heat, Moisture, And Air Are Requisite. As Each Species Of Plants Have Their Zero At Which They Are Killed, So Each Has Its Temperature ...
Gestation
Gestation. The Gestatory Term In Quad Rupeds Is Much Regarded By Their Bulk. In The Elephant It Is About 20 Months, In The Camel Between 11 And 12, In The Mare And Ass The Same. According To The Observations Of M. Tcissier Of Paris, In 582 Mares, Which Copulated But ...
Goose
Goose. Anger. Of The Eight Sub-varieties Of The Goose Family Supposed To Have Descended From Three Distinct Wild Species, The Common Gray Or White Goose, The Bremen Or Emhden, And The Toulouse, Are Supposed To Have Come From The Gray-legged Goose (amer Ferns), Still Found Wild In The North Of ...
Gooseberry
Gooseberry. The Original Plant Of The Cultivated Gooseberrry Of Europe Is Said To Be Ribes Uva-erispa. It Is Found Wild Quite Plenti Fully, And Sometimes Side By Side With The Culti Vated Varieties, Also Run Wild From Gardens. In England Many Varieties Of The Cultivated Fruit Are Known, But In ...
Gopher
Gopher. The Striped And Spotted Squirrel Found All Over The West Is Incorrectly Called Gopher. The Gray Squirrel Of The Prairies Is Also Sometimes Confounded With This Species. The Two-pouched Gopher (gemys Bursa/rim) Is Entirely Distinct, And, Where It Abounds, So Destructive As To Call Forth The Most Persistent Efforts ...
Grade Cattle
Grade Cattle. Grade Cattle May Be Defined As The Descendents Of Any Pure Breed Crossed Upon The Native Or Mixed Breeds Of A Country. In The Mixed Farming Of The Older Settled States The Three Purposes Of Beef, Milk, And Working Cattle Are Desired. Hence The Grades Are Made Up ...
Grafting
Grafting. Grafting Is The Uniting Of A Shoot Or Scion Containing One Or More Buds To A Stock Or Root With A View, By Their Union, To Produce A Superior Fruit Upon The Inferior Stalk. There Are A Number Of Ways Of Grafting, Cleft Grafting Being The Mode Usually Adopted. ...
Grape
Grape. The Grape, During The Last Ten Years, Has Come Fairly To Contest The Palm, During Its Season, With The Other Fruits Bought For Use By All Classes In Our Principal Markets. Since We Have Ceased To Be Guided By A Hot-house Standard, As To What Constitutes A Palatable Grape, ...
Grape Insects
Grape Insects. Grape Vines Are Attacked By Numerous Insects, On Leaf And Root, And Also By Borers. The Most Devastating And Dreaded Of Late Years Is The Grape Phylloxera, Which, Having Devastated The Vineyards Of France And Other Principal Vine Growing Districts Of Europe, Are Now Giving Vinegrowers In The ...
Grasses
Grasses. The Great Order Of Plants In Cluded In The Graminem, Or True Grasses, Are Described Botanically As Having Mostly Hollow Stems (calms) Which Are Cylindrical And Jointed, Closed At The Joints (nodes), Leaves Alternate, Two-ranked, Parallel-nerved, The Dilated Petiole Surrounding The Culm And Split Open On The Side Opposite ...