Rice
Rice. Oryza. Oriza Sativa, And Its Varieties Have Been Cultivated From Time Immemorial In Oriental Countries As Human Food. It Ranks Next To Wheat, As A Sustenance For The Human Family As A Constant Food, However, It Is Only Used By The Nations Of Hot Climates, Containing A Dense Population. ...
Rinderpest
Rinderpest. Fortunately This Terrible Scourge Of Cattle Beyond The Atlantic Has Never Been Introduced Into America. Probably It Is Only A Question Of Time, Until Our Country Will Be Desolated With This Scourge Of Horned Cattle, For If The Equally Dreaded, And As Contagious Pleuro-pneumonia Could Be Twice Introduced, Why ...
Ringing Fruit Trees
Ringing Fruit Trees. This Operation Has Long Been Known As A Means Of Inducing Fruitfulness And Increasing The Size Of The Fruit On The Particular Branch Operated On. At One Time It Was Extensively Practiced On The Grape Vine. The Fruit Sometimes Under This System Yvill Attain Great Size, But ...
Ro It Pruning
Ro It Pruning. The Principal Objects Sought To Be Gained By Root Pruning Is, First To So Check The Growth As To Induce Early Fruitful Ness; Second, To Induce The Formation Of Fibrous Roots, Third, To Prevent Blight, And Fourth, As A Means Of Preparing A Tree For Subsequent Removal ...
Road Horses
Road Horses. The Possession Of Wealth In The Northern States, Both East And West, Almost Invariably Shows Itself In The Desire To Possess Horses For Driving Single Or Double, And That May Combine Handsome Form, Style And Docility, With A High And Continued Rate Of Speed. The Wants Of Business ...
Roads And Road Making
Roads And Road Making. The Ques Tion Of Good Roads Is One Of The Most Important Of Any Outside The Farm Proper, For Without Roads Upon Which Fair Loads May Be Hauled, The Pro Duce Of The Farm Can Not Be Carried To Market, Nor Can The General Traffic Of ...
Roller
Roller. An Implement Of Simple Construc Tion, The Main Object Of Which Is To Render Smooth The Surface Of Arable Lands. It Is An Imple Ment In Which Greater Diversity Of Form Is Found To Exist Than In Most Agricultural Machines. Rollers Are Of All Sizes, Weights, And Lengths; And ...
Root Crops For Feeding
Root Crops For Feeding. Very Few Farmers Estimate The Relation In Value Of Root Crops, To The Other Crops Of The Farm. The Cul Tivation Of Beets In France And Germany, Has Added One Quarter To The Number Of Cattle That May Be Fed; And Also Added Twenty-five Per Cent. ...
Rose
Rose. This Queen Of Flowers Is Almost Uni Versally Cultivated In Some Form. Every Garden However Small Has Its Rose Bush, Too Often, How Ever, Of Old And Discarded Varieties That Have But Little Merit Compared With The Varieties Of Later Years. The Well Known June Rose, Annual Bloomer, Is ...
Rostelliim
Rostelliim. The Name Given To The Re Tractile Sucking Tube Of Apterous Insects. Rot. This Is A Name Given To A Disease In Sheep, When Infected With The Fluke, Distomurn Lanceolatqm, And Fasciola Hepatica Which Inhabit The Gall Bladder And Ducts, And Passes To The Substance Of The Liver. Once ...
Rotation Of Crops
Rotation Of Crops. In All Countries When Agriculture Has Advanced To A Condition Where The Same Land Is Occupied From Year To Year, A Rotation Of Crops Comes To Be Looked On As Indispensable, And For The Simple Reason That All Such Cultivated And Carried From The Land, Sooner Or ...
Rump
Rump X A7uaticus-water Dock, Zanthoriza. Rumex Crispus-yellow Dock, Curled Dock, Narrow Dock, Sour Dock, Garden Patience. Sabbatia Angolans - Red Century, Sabbatia, Bitter Bloom, Bitter Clover, Rose Pink, Wild Succory. Salvia Lyra:a -wild Sage, Meadow Sage, Lyre-leaved Sage, Cancer Weed. Salim Sclar Y -clary, Clammy Sage. Sambucus Cauadensis -eider Blooms, ...
Russian Cattle
Russian Cattle. Ln Russia Tbere Are No Distinctive Breeds Of Cattle That Have Been Con Sidered Of Sufficient Good Form And Substance To Warrant Importation Into The United States. They Are Principally Long-horned, Large-boned, Rough Cattle, Better In Hide And Tallow Than Meat. The Vast Plains Of The Ukraine, And ...
Sage
Sage. Salvia. A Class Of Plants Containing Many Species Of Value, Whether We Regard It Medicinally, As A Condiment, Or For The Splendor Of Its Flowering Varieties. As A Gargle It Is Most Useful. In China It Was Once Regarded With Favor, Being Used As We Use Tea, Holding A ...
Salicacea
Salicacea. Salix Nigra. Black Willow. Eastern United States. This Is Almost The Only Willow Of The Eastern Portion Of The Continent Which Attains A Tree Size. It Grows From Twenty To Thirty Feet High. With A Thick Black Bark. On The Pacific Coast Are Several Species Which Become Tree Willows. ...
Salmon
Salmon. The Salmon, As A Fish For Artificial Breeding, Has Of Late Years Attracted Much Atten Tion, And They Have Been Successfully Trans Ferred To Many Of Our Deep And Larger Waters. The Author Of American Fish Culture Gives Full Information In Relation To The Habits Of This Cele Brated ...
Salsify
Salsify. Vegetable Oyster, (11ragopogom Porrifolium.) This Is One Of The Most Valuable Of Esculent Roots For The Kitchen Garden, As Hardy As Parsnip, And Like That Plant May Be Left In The Ground All Winter. It Should Be Sown As, Early In The Spring As Possible, And Requires The Whole ...
Sand Bath
Sand Bath. A Quantity Of Sand Heated By A Flue, And Used In The Laboratory. Sand-crack Is A Fissure In The Hoof, Which Begins At The Coronet, The Thin Edge First Breaking Away. It Is A Disease Of Nutri Tion, The Horn Of The Foot Being Secreted In Dim Inished ...
Sanies
Sanies. A Thin, Foetid Discharge From Sores. Sap. The Circulation Of The Sap Of Plants Has Been The Cause Of Many Elaborate Theories, Each Of Which In Turn Has Been Exploded. Indeed, But Little Is Really Known Of The Precise Causes Acting In This Abstruse Problem. Prof. Burrill, Of The ...
Sauerkraut
Sauerkraut. Cabbage Sliced Thin And Packed Closely In Barrels, With Salt, And Some Times Spices, Is Called Sauerkraut (sour Krout). It Was Formerly One Of The Specifies Against Scurvy In Long Sea Voyages, But Modern Improvement Has Given Better Agents, And It Is Now But Little Used. It Is Still, ...
Savory
Savory. The Summer Savory (satureja Bortensis) Is An Annual, And Propagated By Seed , The Winter (s. Montana) Is Perennial, And Man Aged In The Same Way- As Sage, Which It Greatly Resembles. They Are Labiate Plants. Saw. The Use Of The Saw Has, Without Doubt, Exerted A Greater Influence ...
Saying And Applying Manure
Saying And Applying Manure. The -value Of Manure Lies In Its Soluble Parts, Except In So Far As It,s Mechanical Action May Change The Condition Of The Soil. So, The Value Of Any Given Soil, Aside From Its Mechanical Texture, Is Contained In Its Soluble Parts Given Up Through -vegetable ...
Scab In Sheep
Scab In Sheep. It Is More Than Probable That The Disease Is Occasioned By Neglect. That In Ill Kept Sheep It Quickly Assumes A Virulent Form There Is No Doubt, Since On Fat Sheep, -or Those In The Full Flush Of Growth, It Is Evi Dent, As In Other Farm ...
Scouring
Scouring. In Colts And Calves This Is Usually Produced From Some Disability Of The Dam, Or In The Case Of Calves, From Improper Food. This Must Be Remedied According To The Nature Of The Case. Diarrlicea In Horses Is Pro Duced By A Variety Of Causes, As Indigestible Or Irritating ...
Seed
Seed. The Seed Is The Perfected Fruit Of The Plant, Capable Of Again Reproducing Itself Through Germinations And Growth. They May Be Divided Into Six Principal Classes: 1. Those Of The Cereal Grains, Beans, Peas, Etc., Contained Within Dry Coverings, And Which Are Prepared Directly For Use. 2. Those Contained ...
Seeding
Seeding. One Of The Most Important Ope Rations Of The Farm, Is The Equal Distribution Of The Seed Over The Land, Whether In Drills Or Broadcast, So There Shall Be No Bare Spots, And That Each Plant May Have Equal Room, Meas Urably At Least. In The Old Way Of ...
Sheep
Sheep. The Antiquity Of Sheep, As Kept For Their Flesh And Wool, Is Coeval With The First Dawn Of Civilization Of Mankind. The Original Wild Type Is Lost In Obscurity, And Naturalists Have Conjectured In Vain As To When The Original Race Was Indigenous, And From What Race Or Races ...
Sheltering Stock
Sheltering Stock. We Provide Our Selves With Comfortable Clothing In Winter To Ward Off The Effeets Of Cold. We Eat Fat Meats For The Same Reason. The More Northern And -.colder The Climate, The More Of Fatty Substances Are Consumed. The Esquiniaux Drink Train Oil. These Substances Contain Much Carbon, ...
Shetland Ponies
Shetland Ponies. The Shetlands, The Smallest Of The Pony Breeds. Are Round, Closely Ribbed Up, With Heads Bony And Well Shaped, But Wide At The Brow, And Often With The Basin Shaped Face Of The True Arab. The Ears Are Small, Erect, Well Shaped And Plaeed, Eyes Large, Bright And ...
Shoeing Horses
Shoeing Horses. The Proper Shoeing Of Horses, When Employed On City Pavements Or Hard Roads, Is One Demanding The Most Earnest Attention Of Every Horse Owner. Nevertheless, Not One In A Hundred Ever Take The Pains To Inform Themselves As To The Correct Manner Of' Doing This, But Trust To ...
Shoulder Lameness
Shoulder Lameness. Dr. Dadd Says: Lameness Is More Apt To Arise In The Shoulder Than In The Corresponding Part Of The Hind Ex Tremities; The Latter Having A Bony Union To The Body, Which Prevents, Or Rather Limits, Undue Extension Of The Muscles. The Lameness May Exist In The Muscular ...
Silicic Acid Silex
Silex, Silicic Acid. Pure Sand, Rock Crystal. An Mid, Consisting Of One Equivalent Of Silicium, (22.22), A Body Resembling In Appearance Charcoal, And Three Equivalents Of Oxygen, 46.22. In The Cold It Is Inaetive, But At A White Heat It Forms An Exceedingly Aetive Aeid, Combining With Bases, And Displacing ...
Silkworm
Silkworm. The Silkworm Has Attracted So Much Attention In All Civilized Countries Where It May Be Propagated - And Raised For The Silk Which Is Obtained From The Cocoons Spun By The Iarvce, And Especially In The United Stites, Where Much Money Has From Time To Time Been Spent In ...
Silver Alloys Gold
Alloys. Gold, Silver, Etc. Gold Alloys. Standard Gold For Coin In Great Britain I,: Pure Gold, 22; Pure Copper, 2. This Alloy Is Harder And More Fusible But Less Ductile Than Pure Gold. It Is Said To Be 22 Carats Fine. Standard Gold For Coin In United States And France: ...
Singing And Cage Birds
Singing And Cage Birds. The Birds Now Kept In Cages Either For The Beauty Of Their Plumage Or Their Song, Now Em Brace A Great Variety, Running All The Way Through The Finches, Linnets. Sparrows, Thrushes, Up To The Parrots, And The More Magnificent Plumaged Araras And Cockatoos. The Musical ...
Smut In Grain
Smut In Grain. Smut Is A Fungus, Or Parasite, Destroying Or Replacing, Where It Devel Ops, The Organs In Which It Is Developed. The Seeds (spores) Are Exceedingly Minute, And Can Not Be Recognized Singly, Except Under A Consid Erable Magnifying Power. It Attacks The Leaves And Stems Of Plants, ...
Soap 1
Soap. _1. Chemical Compound Of Fat Or Oil, Animal Or Vegetable, With Potash Or Soda. Various Plants Were Used In Ancient Times For Their Cleansing Qualities, Among Others, The Juice Of A Plant Called Struthinne By The Romans. Pliny Asciilies The Invention Of Soap To The Gauls And Credits The ...
Soil
Soil. Soil Is Distinguished From Earth In That It Contains A Greater Quantity Of Organic Vegetable Matter Than The Sands, Gravels And' Clays, Which Constitute So Large A Portion Of The Upper Surface Of The Earth's Crust. The Earths Originally Were Composed Of The Detritus Or Decom Position Of The ...
Sorghum
Sorghum. The Importance Which The Cul Tivation Of Sorghum Has Assumed As A Crop In The West, Within The Last Ten Years, And More Particu Larly Within The Last Six Years, Through Improved Processes In Its Manufacture, By Which A Fair Amount Of Crystallizable Sugar May Be Produced, Ranging From ...
Soup
Soup. A Nourishing And Healthful Food To Be Taken As The First Course At Dinner. Lean Meat Only Should Be Used For Soup. The Con Ditions To Be Observed In Boiling Meat, Both As Respects Its Quality As Food, And Also When It Is Intended For Soup, Are As Follows: ...
South American Cattle
South American Cattle. The Rev. G. D. Carrow, Some Years Since, When Superin Tendent Of The Missions Of The -methodist Episco Pal Church In South America, Contributed A Graphic Account Of South American Cattle, And Cattle Farming In The Pampas, Which We Repro Duce, As Showing- The Origin Of South ...
South Down Sheep
South Down Sheep. That The South Down Sheep Make The Most Superior Mutton Of Any Knovvn Breed, There Is No Doubt, Yet Superior As Is Their Mutton, Except In The Vicinity Of Large Cities. Or In Localities An-here Transportation To Market Is Easy, Breeders Do Not Take Kindly To Them, ...
Spanish Varleties Early Maturing
Spanish Varleties Early Maturing For Colder Localities. Var. (french, Ampoul Above An Inch In Diameter, Spherical, Ahin Iug Black. Var. Regalia.—sevillano: (french, Pruneau De Catig Nac.)—fruit About An Inch In Diameter, Ovate-spherical, Blunt, Bluish-black. Var. Behotudo Or Virotuda.—fruit Abont An Inch Long, Egg-shaped: Pericarp Outehie Dark Red, Inside Violet. Var. ...
Spavin
Spavin. Spavin, Ringbone, And In Fact Any Enlargement Of The Bone, By Deposit Of Bony Matter, May Be Referred To Similar Eauses, And Should Be Treated Alike, First To Allay The Inflam Mation, And Then To Excite Absorption. Firing, (burning The Parts,) And All Like Heroic Treatment, Should Be Condemned; ...
Spaying
Spaying. Spaying Is Extracting The Ovaries Of Female Animals, For The Purpose Of Fattening. If Operated On About The Season Of Periodic Beat, And When In Full Flow Of Milk, Spaying Prolongs Indefinitely The Period Of Giving Milk And Increases The Flow. Thus Cows Have Been Known To Continue In ...
Squarrous
Squarrous. Ragged In Appearance. Sq Uash. Squashes As Generally Cultivated In Gardens Are Divided Into Three Classes. The Sum Mer Or Bush Squashes, The Autumn Squashes, And The Winter Or Late Keeping Vatieties. Of The Bush Varieties, The Summer Bush, Warted Crookneck, And The Early White Bush Scalloped Squash, Are ...
Stable
Stable. The Proper Site For Stables Is As Necessary As Care In Construction And Ventilation. They Need Not Necessarily Be Hidden Entirely From View From The House, Even In Suburban Places Of The More Pretentious Order. Neither On The Farm, Need They Be Necessarily Posted In The Same Yard With ...
Stall Feeding
Stall Feeding. The Stall Feeding Of Ani Mals Intended For Human Consumption Is The Natural Outgrowth Of The Massing Of Populations In Cities, And The Accumulation Of Wealth. In England The Stall Feeding Of Sheep Is Regularly -practiced. In This Country The Feeding Of Sheep, -fat, Is Yearly Increasing Near ...
Starch In Plants
Starch In Plants. The Principal Con Stituent In Plants Is Carbon In Some Of Its Many Forms. Starch Is Present In Notable Quantities In All. That Class Most Useful As Food For Man And Farm Animals. The Source Of Alcohol In Plants Is Primarily Starch. Thus Any Plant Which Either ...
Steam Plowing
Steam Plowing. The Cultivation Of The Earth, Both As Respects The Cultivation Before, And Subsequent To Plowing Has For Many Years Occu-. Pied The Attention Of The Best Agricultural Invent-. Ive Talent Both In England And The United States. The Solution Of The Problem Has Been Fairly Ac Complished In ...
Strangles
Strangles. This Is A Disease Prevalent In Young Horses, Under The Common Name Of Dis Temper. It Used To Be Thought That Horses Must At Some Age Have The Distemper. The Same Thing Used To Be Held In Re-gard To Measles In The Human Family. Both Are, However, Fallacious. The ...
Straw
Straw. The Value Of Straw Iu The Economy Of The Farm, Will Depeud Upon A Variety Of Cir Cumstances, As Nearness To A Market, Where It May Be Sold For Bedding, Packing, The Stuffing Of Articles Of Use, Filling Mattresses And The Vari Ous Uses To Be Found For It ...
Strawberry
Strawberry. It Seems Strange That A Fruit So Well Adapted To A Variety Of Soils, So Easily Cultivated, If In Long Rows Where Horse Im Plements Inay Be Used, Which Children Would Gladly Gather If The Head Of The Family -would Only Plant And Cultivate, Should Scarcely Ever Be Found ...
Suffolk Cattle
Suffolk Cattle. Of This Once Farnous Breed Of Cattle, Youatt Says: The Suffolk Dun Used To Be Celebrated In Ahnost Every Part Of The Kingdom, On Account Of The Extraordinary Quan Tity Of Milk That She Yielded. The Dun Color S Now, However, Rarely Seen In Suffolk, And Rejected As ...
Sugar
Sugar. By The Term Sugar Is Usually Meant Cane Sugar. Before The War This Industry Reached (in 1861) A Total Iu Louisiana Of 528,321,500 Pounds. In 1862 And 1863 It Dwindled To Noth Ing In 1864, 7,668,200 Pounds Were Manufac Tured, Which In 1870 Reached 166,613,150 Pounds, Then Again Running ...
Sumach
Sumach. Rims. This Family Of Plants Has Of Late Years Attracted Attention From The Amount Of Superior Tannin Contained In The Dried Leaves And Young Stalks Of The Current Year's Growth. In Sicily, Which Has Long Furnished The Greatest Amount Of Sumach, Used For T,anning Morocco And Other Fine Leather, ...
Sussex Cattle
Sussex Cattle. Youatt Says Of The Sussex Cattle, Undoubtedly A Subfamily Of The Devons, That The Sussex Ox Holds An Intermediate Place Between The Devon And Hereford, With Much Of The Activity Of The First And The Strength ,of The Second, And The Propensity To Fatten, And The Beautiful Fine-grained ...
Swine
Swine. This Breed Is Famous All Over The West, And Also Is Locally Known In Ohio As The Magie Hog, From The Name Of One Of Its Successful Breeders There. It Is Desmibed By The Committee On Poland-chinas At A Convention Of The National Swine Breed Ers' Association. In A ...
Swine_2
Swine. Sus Scroja. The Origin Of Tbe Domes Tication Of Swine, Like That Of The Horse, Cattle And Sheep, Is Lost In Obscurity. In A Wild State, However, It Has Been Known From The Remotest Time,s In Europe, Asia And Africa. The Great Fecundity Of The Species, Its Well Known ...
Swiss Cattle
Swiss Cattle. Aside From An Occasional Importation By Curious Amateurs, The Saa Iss Cat Tle Have Never Gained A Foothold In Our Country, And Yet They Bear A High Reputation In Many Parts Of Europe. In France, Especially, They Are Much Esteemed, And At The Agricultural School Of Grignon Their ...
Taxis
Taxis. The Replacement Of Parts By The Haud. Tea. Hea Tiridis. A Plant Belonging To The Camelliacea,, And Known Wherever Civilization Extends As The Source Of The Green And Black Tea Of Commerce. It Is Indigenous To Many Portions Of China And Is Reported To Have Been Introduced To Japan ...
Temperature
Temperature. The Question Of Temper Ature Has Been Somewhat Treated Of In The Articles Earth, Germination, 'meteorology And Soil. Itis An Important Subject, For Upon Temperature, As One Of The Prime Factors, Rests The Question Of The Proper Ripening Of Crops. Thus Soils, Exposed To The Rays Of The Sun, ...
Texan Cattle
Texan Cattle. Texan Cattle Are Now-a Days Too Well Known In The Principal Beef Markets Of The United States And Along The Lines Of Our Trunk Railways To Need Particular Descrip Tion. Originally Derived From The Spanish Cattle Brought Over By Early Adventurers, They 'covered All The Great Grazing Plains ...
Texas Fever
Texas Fever,. This Is A Malignant Dis Ease That Has Been Characterized By A Number Of Names, As Spanish Fever, Texas Fever, Splenic Fever, And Also By The General Name Of Texas Plague. It Is A Disease Originating In The Low Lands Of Texas And Mexico. A Contagious Fever, In ...
Textile Crops
Textile Crops. The Principal Textile Crops Produced In The United States Are Cotton, Flax And Hemp. Flax Indeed Can Hardly Be , Ranked As A Textile Crop, Since The Fiber Is Only Considered A Secondary Product Anywhere. Gen Erally It Is Regarded Simply As A Waste Product. Jute And Ramie ...
Thoroughbred
Thoroughbred. The Word Thorough Bred Does Not Mean, As Many Suppose, An Animal Of Pure Blood, That Is Unmixed. If So, Any Wild .animal Would Be A Thoroughbred. The Word Thoroughbred Is Used To Designate Animals Bred From The Best Blood, But Originally Derived From A Mixture Of Raees, As ...
Threshing
Threshing. The Old-time Plan Of Thresh Ing. With The Flail, Is Now Only Resorted To In Those Cases Where It Is Necessary To Save The Straw Of Full Length, And Practically Unbroken. This Being The Object, Hand Threshing By The Flail Has Not Been Practically Superseded By The Use Of ...
Thrips
Thrips. These Are Minute Orange-colored Insects Found In Growing Wheat Heads, And Said To Subsist By Sucking The Juices Of The Unripe Grains, Causing Them To Shrivel. A Usual Rem Edy Is To Thoroughly Dust The Field With Air-slaked, But Dry Lime. A Species Of Leaf Hopper, Erythro Neura, Is ...
Throwing For Operations
Throwing For Operations. When Any Painful Operation Is To Be Performed On An Animal, It Must Be Securely Fastened. This Is Done By Hobbling And Casting The Animal, And Then Securely Tying. For Operations Not Requiring A Long Time, A Pen May Be Rnade, Three Feet Wide Six Feet Long, ...
Ticks
Ticks. Among Vegetable Productions What Is Known As Beggar Ticks Are The Ripe Seeds Of Bide Ns Chrysantlumwides, And Also The Seeds Of Spanish Needle, B. Bipinnatus, Is.. Sometimes So. Called. Sheep Ticks, Hippobosca Arelophagus), Ocino, Is A Small Louse Fly, Without Wings, Often Exceedingly Troublesome, Especially To Lambs, The ...
Timber
Timber. In The Article Forestry And In The Description Of The More Important Species Of Useful Trees, We Have, Noticed Those Species Gen Erally Cultivated For Profit Or Ornament. Upon The Importance Of The Timber Resources Of The Country And The Yearly Increasing Scarcity, And The Need Of Planting For ...
Timber Trees Range Of
Timber Trees. Range Of. The Statis Tical Atlas Of Gen. Walker Contains A Careful Analysis Of Our Forest Wealth, Prepared By Prof. Brewer, Of Yale College. It Will Be Found Valu Able, In Connection With The Articles Forestry And Timber. Considered Botanically, The Flora Of The United States Is Very ...
Tobacco
Tobacco. Nicotaina. There Are Many Spe Cies Ot Tobacco, Fourteen Being Enumerated By Loudon. The Two Principal Under Cultivation With Their Varieties Are N. Ruetica, Grown In The Colder Portions Of Europe, And A'. Tabucum, Cul Tivated In The United States, Of This Latter, The Cuba, And The Connecticut Seed ...
Top Dressing
Top Dressing. Top Dressing Is That Form Of Manuring Where The Fertilizing Material Is Applied To The Surface Of The Earth, Instead Of Being Plowed Under, As For Instance, In The Ease Of Meadows, Pastures, Young Wheat, And Other Cereal Grains, Young Grass, Orchards, Etc. It May Be Intended To ...
Transplanting
Transplanting. Transplanting Is The Art Of So Removing Plants That They Shall Receive The Slightest Possible Check In The Removal. The Objects In Transplanting Is, First, To Increase The Season Of Growth Of Exotic Plants Hy Previous Forcing In Hot Beds And Greenhouses, That We May Get Easier And Longer ...
Trees In Cities And
Trees In Cities And Tillages. We. Constantly Hear Complaints From Citizens That The. Trees They Have Spent So Much Money In, Having; Planted And Cared For, Give But Little Satisfaction. A Large Majority Die In The Course Of A Few Years, Or At Least Become Dingy And Unhealthy From The ...
Trees Of The United
Trees Of The United States. In The Articles Forestry, Timber,timber Trees, Range Of, Etc., Will Be Found Much Valuable Informa Tion Which Has Not Been Commonly Known To The General Reader, And Indeed Which Has Not Come Under The Reading Of Many Who Take A Special Interest In Forestry And ...
Trembles
Trembles. This Disease Is Known By A Number Of Local Names, One Of The Most Cornmon Being Milk-lick Or Milksiekness It Has Been Ascribed To A Vaiiety Of Causes, Mineral And Veg Etable. It Is Essentially A Disease Incidental To New Settlements, Seldom Found North Of Forty Degrees, And Then ...
Trichina Spiralis
Trichina Spiralis. This Parasite, Found Principally In The Flesh Of Swine, As Among Animals Used As Human Food, But Probably Also In That Of All Vermin, Insect And Garbage Eating Animals, Is Worthy Of Special Mention, From The Fact That, Of Late Years,trichinosis Has Been Known In Quite A Number ...
Trotting Horses
Trotting Horses. The Use Of Trotting Horses Dates Back Many Years. As Long Ago As 1823 A Distinct Notice Of A Trotting Course 51.11111.111ta In The. A .3 044,111 Pip Nvm Navverin. Per Of That Day, And It Is Recorded That The First Thne A Horse Ever Trotted In Public ...
Turkey
Turkey. Meleagris. Of This Magnificent Domestic Fowl There Are But Two Species. M. Gallapavo, The Common Wild Species, And From Which Our Domestic Varieties Are Descended, And Ocellatus, A Nvild Species, A Native Of Hondu Ras, And Indeed Extended Over Various Parts Of Central America. In Mexico, Is Found M. ...
Tussock Moth
Tussock Moth. The White Marked Tus Sock Moth (orygia Costigma) Is Often Most Destructive In Orchards Dr. Riley, In His First Missouri Report, Describes Thern As Follows: Du Ring The Winter Little Bunches Of Dead Leaves Are Found To Be Quite Numerous On Our Apple Trees. They Are Generally Fastened ...
Urine
Urine. A Saline Fluid Secreted From The Blood Of Animals By The Kidneys, Collected In The Urinary Bladder, And Emitted By The Canal Of The Urethra. Urine Differs In Different Animals, And Varies In Its Characters, According To The Kind Of Food Employed. The Usual Salts Contained In It Are, ...
Urticace2e
Urticace2e. Monis Rubra. Red Mulberry. Eastern United States. Tbe Red Mulberry Is Found Throughout The Greater Part Of The U.nned States East Of The Mississippi, And Also Aome Of The States Weat Of That River. (bryant.) It Is Commonly A Smallish Tree, Sometimes, However, Attaining A Large Size. The Berries ...
The Crows Xxii Family
Xxii. Family Corvidie, (the Crows). Genus Corms. Raven. Resident, Now Very Rare Or Extinct: Omnivorous. Audubon Writea: The More Intel Ligent Of Our Farmers Are Well Aware That The Raven Deetroys Numberlese Ineects, Grnbs, And Worms: That He Kills Mice, Moles, And Rats Whenever He Can Find Them; That He ...
The Hawk H Family
H. Family Falcontd2e, (the Hawk.) Ainong Hawke, Genus Falco, We Have: Duck Hawk. Winter Resident, Very Rare ; Carnivoroua; Feeds On Ducks, Pigeona, Blackbirds, Etc.—pigeon Hawk. Wandering, Very Rarec Carnivorous; Feeda On Pigeona And Smaller Birds, Fleld Mice, Etc.—sparrow Hawk. Resident, Common; Lesa Ao In Winter; Carnivoroua. Aa Its Name ...
The Plovers Xxvii Family
Xxvii. Family Charadriid2e, (the Plovers). Genus Charadriue. Golden Plover. Migratory, Fre Quent; Insectivoroue: Feeds On Insects, Worms, Grass Hoppers, Email Shell Fish, And Sometimes A Few Seeds And Berriee According To Season. Genue Degialitie. Killdeer Plover. Resident, Or Nearly So. Frequent; Insectivorous; Feeds On Various Insects, Grasehoppers, Snails, And Worme. ...
The Swallows Xiii Family
Xiii. Family Hirundinid2e, (the Swallows). Genus Hirando. Barn Swallow. Summer Resident, Verv Abundant; Insectivorous. Its Food Consists Entirely Oil-meets, Some 'being Small Coleoptera. The Swallows, Like The Swifts, Feed Entirely On The Wing, And Thns Devour Vast Numbers Of Flying Insects, Which Otherwise Might Annoy Us.—cliff Swallows. Summer Resident, Now ...
The Thrushes Ei Family
Ei. Family Titrdin2e, (the Thrushes). Genus Turdus. Woodthrush. Summer Resident, Com Mon; Omnivorous. Beetles. Caterpillars, Various Insects, And, In Autumn, Berries, Constitute Its Principal Food. —hermit Thrush. Summer Resident, Frequent; Omnivor Ous; Feeds On Various Insects, And Small Berries. Wil Son's Thrush. Summer Resident, Frequent; Omnivorous. Like The Preceding, Its ...
The Woodpecker V Family
V. Family Picid E, (the Woodpecker). Genus Picus. Hairy Woodpecker. Resident, Common; Ineectivorous; Feeds On The Larvte Of Insecta And On The Ineect. Themselves; Although In Autumn It Eeeks Berries, Etc. Downy Woodpecker. Reeident, Common: Ineectivo Roue ; Habita And Food Eimilar . Red-cockaded Woodpecker. Accidental; Very Rare; Insectivoruue; Habits ...