Vapor
Vapor. The Late Prof. Henry, Secretary Of The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, Has Contributed Much Valuable Literature On Meteor Ology To What Has Been Known Before. The Subject Of Vapor Is An Important One In Agricul Ture, And Hence We Extract, From An Article By The Distinguished Scholar, What Relates To ...
Varieties In Vegetation
Varieties In Vegetation. This Is An Important Subject And One In Which Every Culti Vator Of The Soil Is Interested. In Addition To What Has Been Heretofore Given In This Work We Append A Synopsis Of Facts And Conclusions Derived From Various Authentic Sources, Which Will Be Of Value. The ...
Vegetation
Vegetation. The Complex Problems In Vegetable Life, And In The Act Of Vegetation, Have Caused It To Be Made The Careful Study Of Some Of The Most Profound Thinkers Of The Present Day. In The Articles, Germination And Physi Ology, Some Branches Of These Questions Are Noticed. A Plant From ...
Ventilation
Ventilation. The Subject Of Ventilation Is A Most Important One In Connection With Agri Culture, Since It Bears Not Only Directly Upon The. Health Of The Family, The Farm Animals Kept, Up On The Perfect Saving Of Vegetables And Seeds, And Also Upon The Proper Curing Of Cheese, And, In ...
Verbena
Verbena. Vervain. Some Years Ago, And Until This Plant Began To Be Severely Attacked With Rust, On The Cutting Bench, It Was Perhaps The Most Popular Of Plants Both For The Window And For Bedding Purposes. Its Pretty Trusses Of Flowers, In Almost Endless Variety Of Color, And Its Profuse ...
Veterinary Science
Veterinary Science. The Care Of Sick Animals On The Farm Requires More Than Ordinary Prudence In Its Management. The Dumb Animal Can Not Tell Of Its Aches And Pains, Can Not Des Cribe Peculiar Symptoms, Except By Brute Signs, Quite Unintelligible To Those Who Have Not Given Particular Study And ...
Veterinary Science Veterinary Science
Veterinary Science Veterinary Science. Lential Type, Which Had Made Sad Havoc Among The Stock, And Had Swept Them From The Green Hills And Verdant Valleys, As By The Blast Of A Tor Nado. Their Horses, Too, Did Not Escape The Arm Of The Destroyer; They Were Constantly Suffering And Dying ...
Vinegar
Vinegar. The Juice Of Any Fruit, Especial Ly That Of The Grape And The Apple, Which, Having Gone Through The Vinous Fernientation, Enters Into The Acetic Fermentation, Acquiring A More Or Less Sharp Acid Taste. All Reference To Vinegar As A Preservative Must Be Understood As Being Made To A ...
Vineyard
Vineyard. The Cultivation Of Vineyards Has Always Occupied The Attention Of Man From The Earliest Ages, And The Grape Has Become One Of The Most Celebrated Fruits In History Both From Its Product In Vvine, And From The Value Of Its Fruit In A Sanitary Point Of View And As ...
Vireo
Vireo. The Fly Catchers, Are Among Our Most Useful And Innocent Birds. The Principal Species Are Red-eyed Vireo, -1". Olviace,ous; The Warbling Vireo, V. Gams; The White-eyed Vireo, Depending Upon The Moisture Of The Season; Suc Cess Evidently Depends Rather Upon Its Physical Quality. The Conviction Is Gradually Gaining Ground ...
Walks
Walks. Walks, Drives And Roadways, In The Vicinity Of The Farm Or Rural Dwelling, Should Be So Carefully Made That They Are Good At All Times, And Should Approach As Directly To The Object Sought As Possible, And Without Unnecessary Curves, Especially Short Ones. Within The House Place, Curved Lines ...
Weeds
Weeds. Any Plant Growing Where It Is Not Wanted May Truly Be Classed As A Weed. The Name, However, Is Only Properly Applied To Those Plants Not Valuable In Agriculture. So Long As The Slovenly Farmer, Who Grows Weeds, Can Get Nearly Or Quite As Much For His Illy Cleaned ...
Weevil
Weevil. A Name Applied To Various Insects Including Many Of The Curenlios, Also To The Pea Weevil, And Also To Those Attacking The Bean. The Grain Weevil, Which Attacks Grain And The Rice Weevil Are Similar. During The Centennial Exhibition The Samples From Some Portions Of Europe, Especially From Spain, ...
Welsh Cattle
Welsh Cattle. Naturally We Should Look To Wales, In England, For Types Of The An Cient Race Of English Cattle, Since Its Climate Be Ing Comparatively Mild, And Its People Not Hav Ing Been Entirely Conquered By Either The Saxon Or Roman Invasions, We Confidently Expect To Here Find Cattle ...
Wheat
Wheat. Tritteum Vulgare. Wheat Has In All Ages Of The World Been The Chief Reliance Among Nations For Bread. Those Countries Export Ing Bread Grains Even To-day Relying Upon It As A Great Money Crop. This Is Due To Two Reasons, It Carries Well, And Its Large And Uniform Price ...
White Wash
White Wash. Ordinary Lime Wash Is Made By Putting Half A Peck Or A Peck Of Lumps. Of Quick-lime Into A Tight Barrel, And Pouring On Hot Water To Slake It ; When Slaked Add Water To, Make It Of The Consistency Of Thin Cream And It Is Ready For ...
Windmill
Windmill. In Mechanics, A Mill Which Receives Its Motion From The Wind. The Build Ing Containing The Machinery Is Usually Circular. Window Gardening. The Culture Of Flowers, Odorous Plants, And Those Kept For The Beauty Of Their Foliage, In Dwellings, Is Probably As Old As The Era Of Comfortable Dwellings ...
Wine
Wine. In The Article Gallizing We Have Treated Of The Manufacture Of Fruit Wines, And Of Increasing The Strength Of Wines By The Addition Of Sugar. It Is Well Known That The Juice Of Any Fruit Containing. Acid, Starch Or Sugar, May Be Converted Into A Kind Of Wine, By ...
Winter And Sumner Pruning
Winter And Sumner Pruning. The Principal Object To Be Kept In View In Pruning Is To Calculate So We May Keep The Top In Proper Shape, And So Equalize All That Each Por Tion Of The Tree May Have A Due Proportion Of Light And Air, So Far As Practicable ...
Wool
Wool. Ranking With Cotton, As A Clothing Material, The Wool Industry Of The World Is, Year By Year Assuming Greater And Greater Proportions. Large As Is The Area In The United States Adapted To The Keeping Of Sheep, The Wool Supply Has Al Ways Been Unable To Keep Up With ...
Wounds
'wounds. The Treatment Of Wounds, Says The Late Dr. Dadd, Depends Altogether Upon Their Nature Aud Cause. Lt Is Very Difficult In The Horse—although Not So In Man—to Heal A Wound By What Is Called First Intention, Which Means Union By Medium Of Coagulable Lymph Without Suppuration. The Definition Of ...
Xanthium
Xanthium. Cockle-bur, Elot-bur. A Class Of Vile Weeds From Their Production Of Hooked Spines, Which Become Matted With The Burs, In The Manes And Tails Of Horses, And Fleeces Of Sheep, In The Most Annoying Manner. The Principal Species Are The Common Cockle-bur, X. Strurna Riunt, And Its Variety, Echinatum, ...
Yellows
Yellows. For Yellows In Horses See Jaun Dice. In Cattle The Disease Is Much Similar, And Produced By Congestion And Inflammation Of The Liver. Over-feeding With Rich And Heating Food, Sudden Changes In The Weather, Excessive Milk Ing, Are The Principal Causes. The Animal Ceases To Ruminate Is Dull, Languid, ...