Abortion
Abortion. The Casting Of Young Before The Natural Time. In Veterinary Practice, Abort Ing Is The Slipping, Slinking, Miscarriage Or Ex Pulsion Of The Fcetus At So Early A Period As To Render Continued Life Impossible. The Causes Are Numerous, Principal Among Which Are Want Of Proper Sustenance, Undue Feeding, ...
Absorbents
Absorbents. In Veterinary Practice Medi Cines Given Internally To Neutralize The Action Of Acids Found In The Stomach Or Bowels. Prepared Chalk, Carbonate Of Soda, Etc., Are Absorbents. Externally Absorbents Are Agents Applied For Ab Sorbing The Moisture Of Galls, Or To Prevent Fric Tion Between Folds Of The Skin. ...
Acclimation Of Plants
Acclimation Of Plants. It Is A Gen Erally Received Opinion That A Plant Removed From A Warmer To A Colder Climate Gradually Becomes -changed So That It Will Stand A Lower Temperature Than In Its Native Habitat. Such, However, Is Not The Fact. Its Zero, That Is, The Temperature At ...
Acer
Acer. The Generic Name Of The Maple Fam Ily Of Trees. The Flowers Are Polygamous, Calyx Colored, Live Lobed Or Parted — Rarely Four To Twelve Lobed; Petals Either None Or As Many As The Lobes Of The Calyx; Stamens Four To Twelve; Ovary Two Celled, With A Pair Of ...
Acids
Acids. Generally Sharp, Sour Substanc.es, Which Redden Litmus Paper, And Combine With Metallic Oxides Or Bases To Form Salts.. All Acids, However, Are Not Sour To The Taste, Since All Oily Bodies Contain One Or More Acids, And Corn Starch Sugar Is Made By Means Of Sulphuric Acid. The Inorganic ...
Acorn
Acorn. The Fruit Of The Oaks, In Comrhon With Other Nuts, Is Called Mast, And Is Much Re Lied On In Timbered Countries As Food For Swine In Autumn. The Fruit Of The Live Oak Is Sweet And Edible, And Is Used As Food By Savages. In All Ages Savage ...
Administering Aniesthetics
Aniesthetics, Administering. An Wstheties Are Of Value In Rendering An Animal Wholly Or Partially Insensible. Vapors, Sprays And Fumes Are Also Valuable, And Nearly Related In The Form Of Administering. When A Surgi Cal Operation Is To Be Performed, Anwsthetics May Be Administered, Held Directly To The Nose By Rneans ...
Age Of Plants And
Age Of Plants And Trees. Plants Are Designated As, Annual, Those Which Die At The End Of A Season Of Growth; Biennial, Those Which Live Two Years, And Perennial, Those Which Live And Grow From Year To Year. As A Rule With Plants As With Animals, When Young They Are ...
Agricultural Chemistry
Chemistry, Agricultural. Chem Isty, " The Corner Stone," In Its Broad Sense, As Now Understood, Is That Science Which Treats Of Events And Changes In Natural Bodies Not Accom Panied By Sensible Motion . According To Ure, It Is That Science Which Investigates The Compensation Of Material Substances And The ...
Albumen
Albumen. A Substance Occurring In The Blood And Nerves Of Animals. In The Eggs Of Birds, And In Grains And Vegetables, In Almost Exactly Identical Composition. These We Give, And Also That Of Fibrin And Casein, As Follows. Albumen Dif Fers From Fat In Its Couipoation, Havi»g The Four Elements--earbon, ...
Alcohol
Alcohol. Spirits Of Wine. It Is Formed During The Vinous Fermentation. The Pure Spirit Has A Specific Gravity Of 0.792, And Consists, Chemically, Of Ct, 116, 02. It Is Present In Brandy, Whisky And Strong Spirits, To The Extent Of Fifty Per Cent., Twenty-five Per Cent. In Strong Wines, Ten ...
Alderney Cattle
Alderney Cattle. Jersey Or Channel Cattle, Are Natives Of The Islands Belonging To England, Lying In The British Channel About Twelve Miles From France. The Largest Of The Group (jersey) Is About Twelve Miles Long By Five In Breadth, And Here The Largest Number And The Best Of These Distinctive ...
Alfalfa
Alfalfa. Lucerne; ..11edirago ,';atira . Un Der The Name Alfalfa This Plant Has Been Extelt Sively Cultivated In Some Portions Of The United States, Especially In California, Where It Consti Tutes One Of The Important Forage Crops. It Is Especially Adapted To A Dry, Gravelly Soil, And Once Established, Survives ...
Alkali
Alkali. A Term Originally Applied To The Ashes Of Plants. The Term Is Now Generally Used To Designate Potash, Soda, And Ammonia. Lime And Magnesia Are Alkali-earths. Potassium, So Dium, Lithium And Rubidium Are Alkali Metals. The Alkali-earths, Lime And Magnesia, Are Formed By The Union Of Calcium And Magnesium ...
Alpaca
Alpaca. An Animal Inhabiting The Mount Ains Of Peru (the Camelus Paea Of Linneeus), Used As A Beast Of Burden. Tbe Wool Is Particularly Valuable, And Many Attempts Have Been Made To Introduce Them Into Various Countries, But As A Rule Not With Success. Of The Late Attempt To Introduce ...
Alumina
Alumina. Alumina, Or Alumine, Is One Of The Component Parts Of Alum, From Which It Was Originally Extracted. It Is The Principal Constituent Of Clays, In Which It Is Found Gener Ally Mixed With Other Subtances That Impart To It A Color, It Being Naturally White. It Is A Com ...
American Blood Horse
Blood Horse, American. The Thor Oughbred Horse Of America Derives Its Existence Directly From The Best Blood Of That Wonderful Sub-family Of British Horses, The English Thor Oughbred. That They Have Not Degenerated, Has From Time To Time Been Amply Attested On Our Own Racing Grounds, And Especially So Of ...
Analysis
Analysis. Analysis Consists In Determin Ing The Constituent Elements Of The Subject Of Analysis. By It We Show Either The Organic Or Inorganic Elements. In Soils, For Instanee, We May Find How Much Sand, Lime, Alumina, Phos Phoric Acid, Potash, Magnesia And Other Constit Uents Are Contained In The Sample; ...
Anatomy Of Foot
Foot, Anatomy Of. In The Article Horse's Limbs And Feet, The Importance Of These Mem Bers Of The Body, And Something Of Their Anatomi Cal Structure Is Discussed. The Present Article Will Deal Only With The Feet As Organs Of Locomo Tion, And The Successive Stages By Which The Com ...
Aphtile
Aphtile. This Contagious Malady, After Having Been Well Known In Central Europe For More Than Two Centuries, Reached Great Britain In 1839, Denmark In 1841, And The United States-in 1870. It Is Supposed To Have Been Introduced From Cattle Shipped From England In That Year And Landed In Canada. It ...
Apple
Apple. Pyrris Malus. This Is The Most Im Portant Of The Fruits Of The Temperate Zone The Time When It Was First Brought Into Cultivation Is Lost In The Obscurity Of The Past. It Is, Without Doubt, One. Of The Most Ancient Of Fruits Culti Vated, Since It Is Found ...
Apple Tree Borer
Apple-tree Borer. There Are A Num Ber Of Species. The Two-striped Sapercla (saperda Bivittata) Is Extremely Destructive To Apple Orchards, From The Borings Of The Gmb Into The Wood Of The Trees. The Mature Beetle, Appears During May And June, And Being Strictly Nocturnal Is Seldom Seen Except By The ...
Apple Worn
Apple-worn. Codling Moth, Carpocapsa Pomenelia. The Cut Which We Give Below Will Represent The Natural History Of This Noxious Insect Fully Enough, Since It Represents The Pest In All Its .stages. It Is Two-brooded; The First Brood Appearing With The Opening Of The Leaves In The Spring, And The Second ...
Arab Horses
Arab Horses. From The Fact Of The Im Portation Of Arabian Horses Into England, Many Years Ago, For The Purpose Of Improviug The Blood Of The English Horse, Many Persons Suppose The Arab To Be The Type Of All That Is Excellent In That Noble Animal—the Horse. Others Again Suppose ...
Architecture
Architecture. The Architecture Of The Farm Is Generally Of The Simplest Kind, And Em Braces Dwellings, Barns And Stables For The Vari Ous Animals And Birds Kept; Also Green-houses, Conservatories, Hot-houses, And The Simple Frames Used In Forcing Plants. In All Farm Structures, The Object Should Be To Combine As ...
Army Worh
Army-worh. Leoronia (heliophila) Punetc6. Of This Insect, Dr. Riley, In His Ninth Missouri Entomological Report, Says It Is With Us Every Year. In Ordinary Seasons, When It Is Not Excessively Numermis, It Is Seldom Noticed; 1, Because The Moths Are Low, Swift Fliers, And Nocturnal In Habit; 2, Because The ...
Artichoke
Artichoke. The True Artichoke (cynara Seolymus), An Herbaceous Annual Plant As To Its Top. With A Perennial Root. The Plant Is Three To Five Feet Or More High, With Large, Entire Or Lobed And Spinose (spined) Leaves; The Thick Receptacle, Together With The Fleshy Bases Of The Scales Of The ...
Ascites
Ascites. Dropsy Of The Belly. Ash. The Ash (frazinus Americana) Con Tains Five Well Known Species: White Ash, Blue Ash, Black Ash, Red Ash And Green Ash. They Occupy An Important Rank As Timber Trees Of Value, And Thrive On A Variety Of Soils—a Cool Deep Moist Soil Being Congenial ...
Ashes
Ashes. The Earthy Residuum, From The Combustion Of Any Organic Substance As Vegetable Matter, Wood, Coal, Etc., Is Termed Ash Or Ashes. In An Agneultural Sense They Are Valuable As Containing Pot Ash, One Of The Important Constituents In All Fertile Soils. The Ancients Were Well Acquainted With The Use ...
Aspidiotus
Aspidiotus. A Genus Of Insects Resem Bling The Bark-lice, Or Scale Insects, And Of The Same Habits And Family. They Are Found On The Oleander, Rose, Bay, Cactus And Other Plants. Ass. Epos Asinus. An Animal Considered The Humblest Member Of The Horse Family, But Really Second Only In Value ...
Aster
Aster. The China-aster Has Always Been A Favorite In The Garden. Of Late Years, The Ger Man Asters, Produced By Hybridization And Care Ful Culture, Are Among The Most Beautiful Of Garden Flowers. The Seed Is Better Sown In A Slight Hot-bed, In March, And Pricked Out Three -inches Apart ...
Atmosphere
Atmosphere. From Two Greek Words, Signifying Vapor And A Sphere, Is The Body Of Air Which Surrounds The Globe, And Besides Being Necessary To The Life Of All Terrestrial Animals, Is Of Special Importance To The Agriculturist, Since Upon Its Condition Are We Dependent For Rain, The Motion Of The ...
Atom
Atom. In Chemistry, The Ultimate Part Of A Body Which Combines With Other Atoms. Theo Retically, These Are Of A Determinate Magnitude In_ Every Case. Atoms Are Simple Or Elementary When They Can Not Be Separated By Chemical Forces, And Compound When They Are Liable To Decomposi Tion . Chemieal ...
B Eech
B Eech, Fagus. One Of The Loftiest Trees Of The Ameriban Forests, And Widely Distributed. The Beech Likes A Deep, Rich, Moist Soil, In Favora Ble Situations Sometimes Attaining An Immense Size, Even To Four And Five Feet In Diameter. Fagus Sylvatica Is The European Variety, And F. Ferrugina (red ...
Ball
Ball. Bolus. In Farriery, A Well-known Form Of Medicine, For Horses Or Other Animals, Which May Be Passed At Once Into The Stomach. They Should Be Made Of A Long Oval Shape, And About The Size Of A Small Egg, Being Best Conveyed Over The Root Of The Tongue By ...
Bantam Fowls
Bantam Fowls. The Smaller Varieties Of Poultry Are Generally Known Under The Name Of Bantams. They Are Not Especially Valuable, Being Kept Entirely As Pets Or For Ornament. Dwarf Fowls Have Been Known Since The Time Of Pliny, Who Says Of Them: They Are Extraordi It Is Commonly Lmown As ...
Barley
Barley. Hardeum Vulgare. This Grain, From The Fact That It Has Been Used From Time Immemorial In Oriental Countries As Food For Horses, And To A Great Extent As Food For Man Among Barbarous People; And From Its Easy Con Version Into Malt And Thence Into Beer, Ale And Other ...
Barn
Barn. Buildings For Storing Hay, Grain In. The Straw, And Fodder Of Various Kinds. Have Always Been Considered As Among The Most Portant In Farm Economy. Hence, In All Old Settled Countries, The Fertility Of A Farm, And The Wealth Of Its Owner, May Be Pretty Accurately Known By The ...
Barometer
Barometer. The Word Is Derived From Two Greek Words. Which Signify The Measurer Of Weight. This, The Most Valuable Instrument For Meteorological Observations In The Farmer's Pos Session, Was Invented About The Middle Of The 17th Century, By Torricelli, An Italian Philoso Pher. It Was Found By Torricelli, That A ...
Bean
Bean. Phasolus. In The United States The Bean Is A Tender Annual, Either Dwarf Or Climbing, And Is Cultivated Both For The Succulent Green Pods And Ripe Seeds. The Dwarf Varieties Vary In Height From Twelve To Twenty-four Inches, And Require No Poles.' The Climbing Varieties Require Poles For Their ...
Bean
Bean. Ricinus Communi8, Sometimes Called Palma Christi, From The Shape Of Its Leaves. In The Tropics This Plant Attains An Immense Size And Lives For Years. In Texas It Strongly Shows This Perennial Tendency. It Is Cultivated For Its Seeds, From Which Is Expressed The Well-known Castor Oil Of Commerce, ...
Bee Moth
Bee Moth. Galleria Cereana. This Insect Belongs To The Family Of Snout Moths, Pyralidce. The Snout Is Not The Tongue,but The Palpi, Which Fact Was Not Known By Mr. Langstroth, Who Is Usually So Accurate, As He Essayed To Correct Dr. Harris, Who Stated Correctly, That The Tongue, The Ligula, ...
Bees
Bees. Apiculture, Or The Care Of Bees, Has A Peculiar Fascination For Its Votaries, And Is Espe Cially Adapted To The Tastes Of Women And Men Who Have A Few Hours Leisure Each Day . It Is A Fact That Some Of The Most Successful Bee-keepers In The Country Are ...
Beet
Beet. Beta Valgaris. This Is The Common Beet Of The Garden, A Half Hardy Perennial Plant, Forming Its Esculent Root The First Season And Producing Its Seed The Second. The Roots Which Attain Their Full Development The First Season, Must Be Cared For Before Cold Weather, Since They Do Not ...
Beetles
Beetles. The Common Name Of The Larger Coleopterous Insects, Having Hard Wing-cases. The Late Dr. Le Baron, Iu His Fourth Entomo Logical Report For The State Of Illinois, Gives A Synopsis Of The Tribes Of The Eoleoptera, Which Will Be Of Value To The Reader As A Means Of Identification. ...
Berkshire Swine
Berkshire Swine. The Berkshire's Are To Swine What The Blood-horse Is Among Horsemen—a Type Of High Breeding, Possessing Firm Bone, Great Muscularity, And Good Constitu Tion, So Far As This May Be Compatible With High Fattening Qualities. They Are More Uniform In Color, Than Any Of The White And Black ...
Bermuda Grass
Bermuda Grass. Scutch Grass, Cyn,odon, Ctylo N. One Of The Most Valuable Of The Grasses In The South. It Is Not Recorded As Having Seeded In The United States, Being An Introduced Exotic, A Native Of Africa, Intro Duced Into The West Indies And Thence To The United States. It ...
Beverages
Beverages. Bounds. The Following Is A Cnrrect Formula For Making Koumis: Best Unskimmed Milk, Oue Quart; Yeast, (brewer's Or Old Baker's), 100 Grains; Cane Sugar, 200 Grains. Mix And Keep It At 80' Fahr. Until Fermentation Is Brisk, Stirring It Fre Quently, Then Bottle And Secure The Corks With Wire ...
Birch
Birch. Betula The Birches Are Mostly Na Tives Of Northern Latitudes, Or Elevated Situations, Generally Above Latitude 40°, And Extending Well Up Toward The Arctic Circle. The Foliage Is Gen Erally Thin And Light, And The Whole Tribe Are Grace Ful, And Some Of Them Elegant. The Black (sweet) Or ...
Birds
Birds. The Feathered Tribes Are Among The Most Highly Organized Of Created Beings Except Man, Possessing, As So Many Of Them Do, Either Elegance Of Plumage, Great Vivacity, Or Fine Voca/ Powers. The Increased Prevalence Of Insect Life In All Thickly Settled Countries, Is Due, In A Meas Ure, To ...
Bison
Bison. The American Bison (bos Ameri Co Rats) Once Roamed Over Nearly The Whole Of The North American Continent From Latitude 33° To 64°., It Is Fast Disappearing, And Is Now Confined To The Far West And The Gorges Of The Rocky Mountains, Ranging From Slave Lake In The British ...
Black Cattle
Black Cattle. The Highland Cattle Of Scotland Of Which The West Highlanders May Be Considered The Modern Type, Used To Be Designated As Black Cattle And Also As Kyloes, From The Fer Ries They Were Obliged To Cross In Being Driven To Market. The Word Kyloe Is Thought Perhaps To ...
Black Tongue Blain
Blain, Black Tongue. This Is A Dis Ease Varying In Its Form, And Known Under Vari Ous Names, As Charbon (a Coal) Of The French, Con Tagious Anthrax Of The English, And Under Various Names In England And America, As Black Quarter, Black Tongue, Bloody Murrain And Quarter Ail. When ...
Black Water
Black Water. Hematuria. A Disease To Which Horses And Mares Are Sometimes Sub Ject, But Under Good Care Rarely Found. A Disease Of The General System, Characterized By Excess Of Urea In The Blood, By Mine Of A Nearly Black (dark Coffee Color), And By Spasms Of The Hind Quarters. ...
Blistering
Blistering. The Operation Of Stimulating The Surface Of Some Part Of The Body Of An Animal, By Means Of Acrid Applications, So As To Raise Small Vesicles At The Surface. It Is Frequently Employed For The Purpose Of Removing Local Affections Of Different Kinds, Such As Hard, Indolent Tumors. The ...
Blue Grass
Blue-grass. Poa Pratensis. The Genus Poa Is One Of The Most Important Of The Family Of Grasses, Being Decidedly The Most Valuable Of Our Pasture Grasses In Soil Suited To It. Upon Rich, Open, Argillaceous Soils, Containing Lime, And Upon Rich Dry Limestone Soils Proper, It Is Entirely At Home, ...
Bones
Bones. The Importance Of Bones Is Gener Ally Underestimated. They Form The Framework Of All Verterbrate Animals, Are Of Great Value In Many Of The Arts, And Crushed, Form. One Of The Roost Valuable Of Manures. They Consist In 100 Parts—of Mineral Matter, Fifty-six, The Balance Being Gelatinous And Other ...
Botany
Botany. Botany Has Been Defined As Being The Science Which Treats Of The Structure Of Plants, The Functions Of Their Parts, Their Places Of Growth, Their Classification, And The Terms Which Are Employed In Their Description And Denomination. Economic Botany May Be Defined As Teaching To Distinguish Between Useful And ...
Bots
Bots. These Are The Larvm Of The Two-winged Dipterous Insects, Of The Family Cestrida, Named From The Principal Genus In The Family, Harris Says Of These: Bot-flies Do Not Seem To Have Any Mouth Or Proboscis; For Although These Parts Do Really Exist In Them, The Opening Of The Mouth ...
Bra Hma Pootra Fowls
Bra Hma-pootra Fowls. The Brah Mas Have Long Been Favorite Fowls With Farmers, From Their Quiet Habits, Large Size, And The Quick Ness With Which They Grow To A Marketable Size For Frying. In All The Original Breeds The Deaf Ears, Fell Below The Wattles, And This Characteris Tic Bas ...
Breeding
Breeding. Breeding, In Agriculture, Is The Art Of So Coupling Animals And Of So Rearing Them As Best To Tit Them For The Purposes For Which They Are Intended. The Fact Early Became Known That Characieristics Of The Parents Were Transmitted To The Offspring; Hence The Saying, True Enough Among ...
Brewing
Brewing. This Is The Process Of Obtaining The Saccharine Solution From Malt, Or Other Mat Ters, And Converting This Solution Into Spirituous Liquors, Ale, Porter, Or Beer. There Is Little Doubt Of The Antiquity Of This Art. The Egyp Tians Are Said To Have Been The Inventors Of Beer. The ...
Broom Corn
Broom Corn. A Plant Of The Genus Sor Ghum, A Native Of India, And Cultivated For Its Branching Panicles; Almost Universally Used Now In The Manufacture Of Brooms For Sweeping And Whisks For Brushing Clothes. The Plants Of This Genus Are All More Or Less Rich In Saccharine Matter. Sugar ...
Buckwheat
Buckwheat. Fagopyrum Esculentum. A Plant Delighting In Sandy Soils, But Growing Tolerably On Quite Poor Sands, And Valued For Its Flour, Of Which The Well-known Buckwheat Cakes Are Made. Its Flowers Are A Favorite Resort Of Tne Honey-bee From The Ahundance Of Saccharine They Contain. The Seeds Are Small, Dark, ...
Budding
Budding. Budding Is Not Now Practised ;to So Great An Extent As Formerly, Since With Ordinary Fruits, Especially The Pip Fruits, Grafting Is Fully As Good, And Very Much Faster, Especially Since The Introduction Of Improved Grafting Im Plements. Budding. Soinetimes Called Inoculat Ing, Is Tbe Insertion Of A Single ...
Buprestis
Buprestis. Saw-horned Wood Beetles. A Genera Of Beetles With Hard And Metallic Color Ing, And Hard And Inflexible Bodies. They Are Principally A Tropical Farnily. In The Torrid Zone They Attain Great Size And Dazzling Coloring. Dr. Lebaron Says Of The Family That The Larvie Present Two Very Distinct Forms. ...
Butter
Butter. Butter Is The Solidified Oil Or Fatty Matter Of The Milk Of Animals. In The United States The Milk Of The Cow Only Is Used For Butter, Except By That Unscrupulous Class Who Counter Feit Butter With Animal Fats. The Comparative Value Of The Rnilk Of Different Individuals And ...
Butter Factory
Butter Factory. (see Creamery.) Butterfly. Inseets Of The Genus Papilio (linn.) In The Imago State. Iviany Of Them Are Butter It Should He Pressed Entirely Solid, In Sueh Forms Of Paekages As Will Best Enable This To Be Aecomplished. Orange County Tubs And Barrels Leave But Little To Be Desired ...
Buzzard
Buzzard. Among The Birds Injurious To The Farmer, As Generally Understood, May Be Mentioned Some Of The Buzzards: The Red-tailed Buzzard, Or Hen Hawk (fa/co Borealis); Har Lan's Buzzard (f. Haplard), And The Broad-winged Buzzard, Or Broad-vvinged Hawk, (f. Pennsylean Leas); The Large-footed Hawk (f. Pepegrinus); The Sharp-shinned Hawk (f. ...
Cabbage
Cabbage. Bpassica Oleracea Ccvpitata. Of The Various Classes Of Culinary Vegetables The Cabbage Family (brassica) Is Most Ancient, As Well As Most Extensive, Being Cultivated In All Quarters Of The Globe From The Torrid Zone To The Arctic Circle. Of The 1,000 Species Enumer Ated By Dr Lindley, All Are ...
Cabbage Butterfly
Cabbage Butterfly. There Are Va Rious Butterflies Infesting The Cabbage. Until The European Form (pieris Rapie) Was Introduced, However, But Little Difficulty Was Experienced In Keeping Them In Check We Give An Illustration Of The Southern Species Of Larva And Caterpillar (p. Protodiee). Dr. Riley Says. P. Vernalis Is But ...
Cactus
Cactus. A Tribe Of Fleshy Plants, Some Of Which Are Cultivated For Their Splendid Flowers, And Pleasant Acid Fruits, The Whole Family Be Ing Curious In Their Habit Of Growth. There Are Several Species Of Cactus, The Principal In Cultiva Tion Being Cereus, Echinocactus, Mammillaria, And Opuntia. The Well Known ...
Calcimining And Painting
Calcimining And Painting. Calcimining. In Calcimining, A Great Deal De Pends On The Condition Of The Walls. If They Are Smoked, They Should Be Thoroughly Washed. If They Are Spongy, Or Very Dry, And Soak Up Too Freely, They Should Be Coated With A Size Made Of Glue And Common ...
Calf
Calf. The Word Signifies To Throw Out Or Vomit, Thus The Groove Made In Sawing, Is Called The Saw-calf Or Carf. It Also Signifies A Protuber Ance, As The Calf Of The Leg—the Swell Of The Mus Cles Between The Ankle And .knee. It Is Among Animals Applied To The ...
Canadian Pony
Canadian Pony. The Cunadian Pony Is Distinct In Many Charaeteristics And Was, Undoubt Edly, Originally Derived From The Frenell Horses Brought Over To Canada In Its Earliest Settle Ment. Dwarfed By Generations Of Exposure And Semi-wildness, And Subsequently Crossed Upon Various Stocks Of Horses Introduced Into Canada, These Nervous Animals ...
Canker Worn
Canker-worn. 'the Moth From Which This Destructive Worm Is Produced Belongs To The Genus Anisopteryx, So Named From The Faet That In Some Species The Sexes Are Very Unequal In Size, 'and In Others The Females Are Wingless. This Is The Case With The Canker-worm. Tbe Cuts Repre Sent The ...
Cantrarides
Cantrarides. The Genus Meke Is Men Tioned By Kirby As Apparently Forming A Con Necting Link Between The Coleoptera And Orthop Tera, As Having The Head Vertical, And The Elytra Lapping At The Base. Dr. Le Baron Says, The Re Aemblance Is Very Remote. The Ge Nus Lytta, Fab Rieius, ...
Carbon
Carbon. Carbon Is One Of The Most Common, As It Is One Of The Most Important Substances In Nature, Occurring In A Great Variety Of Forms, In The Animal, Vegetable And Mineral Kingdonis. In Both The Vegetable And Animal Kingdoms It Is The Most Considerable Element. Charcoal May Be Con ...
Carrot
Carrot. This Esculent Root, (dancus Carota) Is A Half Hardy Biennial In The North, And Is Said To Be Indigenous To Some Parts Of Great Britain. Wild, It Is Of No Value; As A Cultivated Plant, It Is Used In Various Ways For The Table, And Is One Of The ...
Caterpillar
Caterpillar. Caterpillars Are The Young Or Larvae Of Butterflies And Moths, And Being All Vegetable Eaters And Extremely Voracious, Inferior Only To Locusts And Grasshoppers, Ma,y Be Classed As Among The Most Destructive Of Insects To Vegetation. They Are Found Everywhere, In Every Climate Where Vegetation Exists, And Are Exceedingly ...
Caterpillar_2
Caterpillar. Hand Maid Moth. Datana Ministra. There Are A Number Of Caterpillars Called " Tent Worms." The True Tent Caterpillars Build Webs Under Which They Feed. Others, As In The Case Of The Yellow-necked Caterpillar, Transform Only Under Webs, Within Which They Congregate, For The Pur Pose, Though They Often ...
Cattle
Cattle. In The United States The Term Cat Tle Is Usually Applied To The Ox Species, Though Sometimes To All Horned Animals. In England They Are Termed Neat Cattle. In A Primary Sense However, The Term Cattle Included Not Only Horned Animals, But Horses And Asses And, It Has Been ...
Cattle
Cattle. The History Of This Wonderful Breed Of Cattle, Once As Eminent For Their Combination Of Milk And Flesh Pro Ducing Qualities As They Have In Later Years Been Made To Excel As Strictly Beef Producers, Is Very Much Mixed Up, Writers, Both English And American, Having Endeavored To Cast ...
Cauliflower
Cauliflower. (brassica Oleracea Var.) Itnlike The Cabbage, Cauliflower And Broccoli Are Strictly Annual Plants, Flowering And Perfecting Their Seeds The First Season. In Fact Broccoli In Some Of Its Varieties, Is So Like Cauliflower That, As To The Cultivation, No Separate Article Will Be Required. So, The General Care And ...
Celer Y
Celer Y. (apium Graveolens). This Much Cultivated Plant Is A Half Hardy Biennial, Being Killed At About 20° Below Freezing. It Is Found Wild And Growing Near The Sea, And On The Sides Of Ditches In England. It Is Esteemed When Cultivated For Its Solid Blanched Leaf Stalks. For The ...
Cellars
Cellars. In All Farm-houses The Cellar Is Of Special Importance. There Are So Many Things To Be Kept From Freezing In Winter, And, Cool In Summer, That No Expense Should Be Spared In Making This Part Of The Farm-house As Complete As Possible. When Sufficient Depth Can Not Be Had ...
Cellulose
Cellulose. Cellulose Is One Of The Most Important Of The Organic Substances Of Anims,ls And Plants. The Group, Or The Amyloids Comprise Cellulose, Starch, Inulin, Dextrine, Gum, Cane Sugar, Fruit-sugar, And Grape-sugar. This Group, In Some Form, Comprises The Larger Part, Esti Mated At Seven-eighths Of All The Dry Matter ...
And The Growth Of
Air, And The Growth Of Crops. The Importance Of Air As An Agent In The Growth Of Crops Is But Little Known By The Majority Of Farmers. The Action Of The Oxygen Of The Air In Connection With Heat And Moisture Causes The Seed To Germinate, And During The Whole ...