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 This Being The Object, Hand Threshing By The Flail Has Not Been Practically Superseded By The Use Of ...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 Ol 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 Tabucum, Cul Tivated In The United States, Of This Latter, The Cuba, And The Connecticut Seed Leaf ...
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 By 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 Common 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 Appeared In The American Farmer Per Of That Day, And It Is Recorded That The First Thne A Horse Ever Trotted In Public In The United States ...
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 Wild Species, A Native Of Hondu Ras, And Indeed Extended Over Various Parts Of Central America. In Mexico, Is Found Al ...
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 Them As Follows: Du Ring The Winter Little Bunches Of Dead Leaves Are Fouud 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, ...
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 Frorn 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 ...
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 Curculios, 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. Tritzeum 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 ...
Woundwort
Woundwort. The Genus Stachys, Weeds. Yak. The Himalayan Bison, Resembling The Buffalo, Three And A Half Feet High, And With Fine, Long Hair. Yam. The Yam—iguame—dioscorea Alatti, Is Cultivated In Every Tropical Portion Of The Earth, _and Also Some Temperate Climates, Where The Young Plants Are Brought Forward Early In ...
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, ...