Pitting Roots And Vegetables
Roots And Vegetables, Pitting. Iviany Farmers In The West, Even Of Those Who Pay Proper Attention To The Kitcben Garden, Do Not Have The Cellar Room They Ought To Have ; And This, Often, From The Difficulty And Expense In Procuring Stone For The Walls. This, How Ever, Need Not ...
Plant Life In Winter
Plant Life In Winter. It Would Seem That The Freezing Point Of The Sap—the Blood In A Sense—of A Tree Or Plant May Not Be Really Frozen Without Destroying The Life, Or At Least Severely Injuring Its Vitality. So Different Plants Have Different Freezing Points, That Is, The Degree Of ...
Pleu Ko Pneumonia
Pleu Ko-pneumonia. Sbnple Pneu Monia Is One Of The Most Common Of The Danger Ous Inflammations Attacking, Either The Human Family Or Animals. It Is The Name Given To An Inflammation Of The Parenchyma, (the Spongy Substance Contained In The Interstices Between The Blood Vessels Of The Viscera). In Acute ...
Plow
Plow. That The Plow Is The Most Important Implement Of Tillage, Is Beyond Question. Not Withstanding That We Have Historical Evidence In The Book Of Job (probably The Most Ancient Of Biblical Writings) That The Plow Was Used In His Day, And Through Successive Generations And Centuries, Evidence Of Its ...
Plowing Three Abreast
Plowing Three Abreast. The Using Of Four Horses In Heavy Plowing, By Attaching One Pair Before The Other, Is Going Out Of General Use, For The Reason That It Has Been Found In Practice That Three Horses Or Mules Working Abreast Or Beside Each Other, Accomplish About As Much Work, ...
Plum
Plum. The Plum Delights In A Rather Com Pact, Well Drained, Rich, Loamy Soil. It Is One Of The Most Hardy Of Trees, Quite As Much So As The Apple, And Would Be Generally Cultivated Were It Not For The Ravages Of The Curculio. There Has Never Yet Been Found ...
Plus
Plus. More: Marked By The Sign +. Plutonic Rocks. Unstratified Crystal Line Rocks, Like Granite, Porphyry, Basalt. Pluviameter. The Rain Gauge. Plymouth Rock Fowls. Of Late Years This Breed Has Come Distinctively Into Notice, And Has Had Many Admirers. The Original Fowls Are Claimed To Have Been Bred By Dr. ...
Pneumonia
Pneumonia. This Is Lung Fever In Horses, Or An Inflammation Of The Substance Of The Lungs, Followed By Secretion And Effusion Of Lymph, Which Solidifies The Lungs, At Length Causing Death By Suffocation, Or Recovering By The Grad Ual Absorption Of The Matter. It Is Brought About By Various Causes, ...
Poisons Affecting Plants
Poisons Affecting Plants. These Are Few In Number, And Principally Mineral. -of Gases, The Common Illuminating Gas Is The Only One To Be Feared, Acting Fatally, When From Leakage Of The Underground Pipes, It Is Taken Up By The Roots. Plants Quickly Suffer If Kept In Rooms Lighted With Gas, ...
Poisons And Antidotes
Poisons And Antidotes. As A Rule. The Lower Animals Are Seldom Poisoned, If Left To Themsleves. Poisoning Is Oftener The Result Of Carelessness Or The Stupidity Of Stablemen, Giving Quack Nostrums To Improve The Coat Or Courage Of The Horse. If The Cause Is Not Known, Give At Once, A ...
Polled Cattle
Polled Cattle. Of The Polled Breeds Of Cattle There Are Several In England. Among The Polled Breeds That Have Acquired Reputation Are The Angus Polled, The Suffolk, And The Galloway. The Latter Have Been, Of Late Years, Brought To The -united States, Bred And Exhibited At Our Fairs. Those Specimens ...
Pollen
Pollen. The Pollen Of Plants Is The Fecun Dating Dust Or Minute Grains Of Organized Ferti Lizing Matter Which, Falling Upon The Pistil Of The Flower, Throws Out Hair-like Tubes, Which Pene Trate Through The Whole Exteut Of The Vascular Tissue Of The Pistil, And Reaching The Ovules, Fertilize Them, ...
Pork
Pork. The Flesh Of Swine, After Being Cut For Use, Is Called Pork. In Cutting It Should Be .done With Reference To The Use For Which It Is Intended. In The Great Pork Packing Establish Ments The Cutting And Curing Has Special Refer Ence To The Particular Markets To Which ...
Potash
Potash. Alkali. Profoxide Of Potassium The, Substance Popularly Known Under The Name Of Potash Is A Combination Of Oxygen And Of A Metal Called Potassium. This Metal Was First Separated From The Alkali In 1807, By Sir Hum Phrey Davy, And Is Interesting On Account Of Its Properties, And As ...
Potato
Potato. Solanum Tuberosum. The Potato Is One Of The Most Important Of Field Crops, As Food For Man, Ranking Next To Wheat, Its Limits Of Cultivation Being Carried Further North Than That Of Spring Wheat And Extending South To The Equator. One Of The Singular Circumstances In Connection With The ...
Potting Plan
Potting Plan Rs. The Successful Florist Knows That The Best Soil For Plants Is A Normal One, Or One In Which It Naturally Grew, And Naturally Seeks To Give It Those Conditions As Near As He Can. All This Requires A Pretty Extensive Knowledge, Not Only Of The Habits Of ...
Poudrette
Poudrette. Poudrettes Consist Of Blood, Fish And Animal Matters, And Night-soil, Dried And Combined With Substances Capable Of Deo Dorizing Them And Absorbing Their Ammonia, Phosphuretted Hydrogen. And Other Gases And Moisture, And Reduced To Powder. A Species Of Poudrette, Fish Manure, Is Prepared By Steaming And Pressing The Fish, ...
Poultry
Poultry. The Term Poultry Is, Strictly Speaking, Applied To The Gallinaceous Tribe. The French Poule Signifies A Hen, And Poulet A Chicken. The Italian Polla A Chicken, And Pollame Poultry. In Latin Pullus Is A Chicken, Or Other Allied Young Animal. In Its Broad Sense It Is Now Used To ...
Predaceous Beetle
Predaceous Beetle. The Predaceous Beetles Are Among The Most Beneficial In Agricul Ture, Since They Prey Exclusively Upon Insects, And Principally On Noxious Ones. There Are Two Principal Classes Of These, The Predaceous Ground Beetles, The Most Useful, And The Soft Winged Predaceous Beetles. In The First Class We Have ...
Preserving Winter Fruit
Preserving Winter Fruit. The Result Of Long And Diversified Experience In Keep Ing Fruit May Be Summed Up In A Single Sentence: Keep Them Dry, Cool, And As Nearly As Possible From Contact With External Air. How To Do This Under Ordinary Circumstances, And With The Facil Ities At Command, ...
Propagation
Propagation. Seeds Are The Most General Means Of Propagation, But They Do Not Perpetuate Improved Varieties, Espeeially Of Fruits; Buds Do, However. Buds Are Propagated By Budding, Grafting, Setting Slips, Euttings, Layers, Offshoots, Suckers, And In Some Plants, As The Strawberry, By Natural Runners. The Bulb Is A Peculiar Bud, ...
Putrefaction
Putrefaction. The Spontaneous Decom Position Of Animal And Vegetable Substances, Attended By The Evolution Of Fetid Gases. The Putrefactive Fermentation Of Animal Substances Is Usually Attended By More Fetid And Noxious Exhalations Than Those Arising From Vegetable Products. This Appears Principally Referable To The More Abundant Presence Of Nitron'en In ...
Quidding In Horses
Quidding In Horses. The Throwing Out Of The Mouth Of Half Chewed Food Is Termed Quidding. It Is Occasioned By Some Disease Of The Mouth, As Sore Gums, Decayed Teeth, Swell Ing Caused By Obstructions Of The Ducts Of The Salivary Glands, Or By Chronic Enlargement Of The Glands Of ...
Rain
Rain. It Has Been Said That Drought Scares. The Farmer, But That Too Much Water Absolutely Destroys His Hopes. This Has Especially Been_ Found To Be A Truism In The West, And Hence The. Impetus Given To Surface And Tile Draining Within_ The Last Few Years, Especially The Latter, Since ...
Rake
Rake. There Are So Many Uses To Which Hand Rakes May Be Put That, Notwithstanding The Almost Universal Use Of Horse Rakes In Gather Ing Crops, The Industry Connected With The Manu Facture Of Wooden, Iron And Steel Rakes Is Immense. Since The Introduction Of The Lawn Mower, The Lawn ...
Ramie
Ramie. This Fiber Plant Has Attracted Much Attention In The South Within The Last Twenty Years, And Especially So Within The Last Ten Years, As Also Has The Other Coarser Fiber Plant Of The East Indies, Jute, Which See. The Chief Diffi Culties In The Way Of The Manufacture Of ...
Rape
Rape. Brasstca Rapa. The Cultivation Of Rape For Its Seed, From Which An Oil Is Expressed, F Ormerly Used For Its Superior Illuminating Power, And For Its Other Uses In The Arts, Has, Of Late Years, Considerably Declined Even In Europe. The Best Varieties For Oil Are The Biennial Species, ...
Raspberry
Raspberry. Rub.us. Our Native Raspber Ries Are The Thimble Berry Or Black Cap, (rubus Occideatalis), And The Red Raspberry (r. Strigosus). The Raspberry Is Common In Some Of Its Forms In Nearly Every Part Of Europe And The United States. The Variety From Which The Principal European Sorts Have Their ...
Reapers
Reapers. Reaping By Machinery Is Men Tioned So Long Ago As The Time Of Pliny, The Elder, Or More Than 2,000 Years Ago. This Graphic Writer Says: In The Extensive Fields Of The Low Lands Of Gaul, Vans Of Large Size, With Project Ing Teeth On The Forward Edge, Are ...
Rear Horse
Rear Horse. Mantida. True Orthopter Ous Insects Which Have Their Legs Peculiarly Adapted For Walking, And Known Under Various Expressive Names, As Rear-horse, Camel-crickets, Or Praying Mantids; All, As Well As The Specters Or Walking-sticks, Are Beneficial To Agriculture, Since They Destroy All Such Insects As They Can Catch And ...
Reclamation Of Land
Reclamation Of Land. The History Of The Reclamation Of Swamps And Marsh Lands, More Especially By Shutting Out The Water Of Floods, Is As Old As Civilization Itself. Its Con Densed History Is Given Both As Showingits Antiq Uity And The Importance Always Attached To Such Reclamation, From The Great ...
Relative Growth Of Trees
Relative Growth Of Trees. It Is Not Generally Known How Fast Trees Will Grow And Make Timber In A Fertile Soil. It Is Not Necessary In This Article To Go Into An Argument To Prove Tbe Value Of Tree Planting In Treeless Regions. It Is An Accepted Fact. As Showing ...
Removing Fruit And Other
Removing Fruit And Other Trees. Tjniess Much Care Is Taken, The Greater Part Of The Small Or Fibrous Roots Of Fruit Trees Are Destroyed In Digging; Or If Not Thus Destroyed, They Are Allowed To Get Dry, And Consequently Become Worthless For The Purpose For Which Nature Intended Them—that Of ...
Rennet
Rennet. The Membrane Of The Stomachs Of The Suckling Young Grass-feeding Animals, Including Swine, Furnish The Secretion Called Rennet, As Used For Coagulating Milk In The Man Ufacture Of Cunt And Cheese. Rennet Skins, As These Membranes Are Called, Are Better At One Year Old, Or When Thoroughly Cured, Than ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Salt
Salt. Chloride Of Sodium. Chemically, Salt Is A Compound Of One Atom Of Chlorine And One Of Sodium, And Occurs Naturally In Every Part Of The Globe As A Rock, Interstratified With Marls, Sandstones, Gypsum, Etc. ; Also As An Element Of Springs And Salt Lakes; Salt Lake, In Utah, ...
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, ...
Saving And Applying Manure
Saving 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 ...
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 ...
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 Animals, ...
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 Esquinjaux Drink Train Oil. These Substances Contain Rnuch 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 Add, 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: ...
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, ...
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 He Thought That Horses Must At Some Age Have The Distemper. The Same Thing Used To Be Held In Regard 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 1882 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 ...