Preserving Winter Fruit
Preserving Winter Fruit. The Result Or 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, Especially Of Fruits; Buds Do, However. Buds Are Propagated By Budding, Grafting, Slips, Cuttings, Layers, Offshoots, Suckers, And In Some Plants, As The Strawberry, By Natural Runners. The Bulb Is A Peculiar Bud, Which ...
Protection Against Floods
Protection Against Floods. The Yearly Destruction Caused By River Floods, The Protection Of Levees And Natural River Hanks And Artificial Embankments Against Erosion From Various Causes, Demand The Best Attention Of Those Who May Be Subject To Inundation, Or To The Abrasion Of Natural And Artificial Hanks Through The Action ...
Pruning And Care Of
Pruning And Care Of Orchards. It Is A Somewhat General Opinion That The Agri Culture Of 100 Years Ago Was Crude And Of The Simplest Kind. It Was Especially Supposed That ' Horticulture Was Given But Little Attention. It Is True The Implements Of Cultivation Were Crude And Inefficient, As ...
Putrefaction
Putrefaction. The Spontaneous Decom Position Of Animal And Vegetable Substances, Attended By The Evolution Of Fetid Gases. The Putrefactive Fermentation Of Animal Substances S Usually Attended By More Fetid And Noxious Leichalations Than Those Arising From Vegetable Products. This Appears Principally Referable To The More Abundant Presence Of Nitrogen In ...
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 It ...
Rake
Rake. There Are So Many Uses To Which Band 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, Tee 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 ...
Range Of Timber Trees
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 ...
Rape
Rape. Brassica Rapa. The Cultivation Of Rape For Its Seed, From Which An Oil Is Expressed, Formerly 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, Notably ...
Raspberry
Raspberry. Rebus. Our Native Raspber Ries Are The Thimble Berry Or Black Cap, (rebus Occideqtalia), And The Red Raspberry (r. A 'toms). 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 ...
Reapers
Reapers. Reaping By Machinery Is Men Tioned So Long Ago As The Time Of Pliny, The Elder, Or More Than 2,006 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. Man Tidce. 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 ' Wallung-sticks, Are Beneficial To Agriculture, Since They Destroy All Such Insects As They Can ...
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 Showing Its Antiq Uity And The Importance Always Attached To Such Reclamation, From The ...
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 The Value Of Tree Planting In Treeless Regions. It Is An Accepted Fact. As Showing ...
Removing Fruit And Other
Removing Fruit And Other Trees. Unless 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 Animals, Including Swine, Furnish The Secretion Called Rennet, As Used For Coagulating Milk In The Man Ufacture Of Curn And Cheese. Rennet Skins, As These Membranes Are Called, Are Better At One Year Old, Or When Thoroughly Cured, Than When ...
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 Will Attain Great Size, But Lacks ...
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 Haring
Roads And Road Haring. 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. ...
Root Pruning
Root 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 With ...
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 ...
Rostellum
Rostellum. 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, Distomum, Lanceolatum, And Fasciola Hepatica Which Inhabit The Gall Bladder And Ducts, And Passes To The Substance Of The Liver. Once ...
Rotation For The Soil
Rotation For The Soil. The Value Of Rotation Is No Longer Denied By Any. It Has Long Been Accepted As One Of The Most Important In Conserving The Fertility Of The Soil, But A Rota Tion To Be Valuable Must Include Not Only The Smaller Cereal Grains, But As Large ...
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. In Russia There 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 Crack
Sand-crack. 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 Quantity And Impaired Quality. The Break, Small At First, Is Extended Until It May ...
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, Hut Little Is Really Known Of The Precise Causes Acting In This Abstruse Problem. Prof. Burrill, Of The ...
Sapindaceie
Sapindaceie. 2g Imam Glahra. Ohio Buckeye. Tennessee And West Ern States. This Tree Attain•, In Favorable Situations, Twenty To Thirty Feet Height, And Is Much In Use As An Ornamental Tree. It Is Not Found Wild East Of The A L'e Ghany Mountaine; It.. Favorable Locality Being The Banks Of ...
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 Specifics 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 Its 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 Decompostion, ...
Savory
Savory. The Summer Savory (satureja Hortensis) Is An Annual, And Propagated By Seed; The Winter (s. Mnntana) 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 In ...
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. Diarrhoea 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 ...
Shearing Sheep By Machinery
Shearing Sheep By Machinery. There Have Been Many Attempts To Perfect Machines For Shearing Sheep. They Have Been All Either Partial Or Total Failures. Lately, How Ever, A Machine Has Been Invented In Australia, And After Two Years' Trial It Has Been Pronounced A Success. The Mark Lane Express, One ...
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 Effects 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 Esquimaux Drink Train Oil. These Substances Contain Much Carbon, ...
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, Hut Trust To ...
Short Horn Cattle
Short-horn 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 ...
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 Larvte, And Especially In The United States, Where Much Money Has From Time To Time Been Spent In Establishing ...
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 ...
Sisal And Manilla Fiber
Sisal And Manilla Fiber. Among The New Fiber Plants Lately Growing In Importance In The United States, Sisal And Manilla May Be Mentioned. The History And/ Uses And Statistics Thereof, As Stated By Mr. A. M. Earle, Of Akron, Ohio, Are Worthy Of Record, As We Find It Stated, In ...
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
Soap. A 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 Struthium By The Romans. Pliny Ascribes He 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 Sothum 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 He Produced, Ranging ...
Sorghum Sugar
Sorghum Sugar. More Than Fifteen Years Ago The Writer Stated The Opinion That The Time Was Not Far Off When Sugar From Sorghum, In Paying Quantities, Would Be A Fixed Fact, And Also, The Probability Was, The Western States' Would Compete Successfully With European Countries Manufacturing Beet Sugar, As An ...
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 ...
Spanish Cattle
Spanish Cattle. (see Texas 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 ...
Spanish Varieties Early Maturing
Spanish Varieties Early Maturing For Colder Localities. Var. Prondformis.—manzanillo; (french, Ampoul Leau.) - Fruit Above An Inch In Diameter, Spherical, Shin Ing Black. Var. Begalis.—sevillano: (french, Franca., De Catty Nac.)—fruit About An Inch In Diameter, Ovate-spherical, Blunt, U Ish-b I Ack. Var. Bellotudo Or Trallotuda.—fruit About An Inch Long, Egg-shaped: ...
Spayin
Spayin. Spavin, Ringboue, And In Fact Any Enlargement Of The Bone, By Deposit Of Bony Matter, May Be Referred To Similar Causes, 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 Heat, 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 ...
Squash
Squash. 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 Varieties. Of The Bush Varieties, The Summer Bush, Warted Crookneck, And The Early White Bush Scalloped Squash, Are The Varieties Most Cultivated. Of ...
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 Male 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 Arid 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 Qccu Pied The Attention Of The Best Agricultural Invent Lye 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 Regard To Measles In The Human Family. Both Are, However, Fallacious. The ...
Straw
Straw. The Value Of Straw In The Economy Of The Farm, Will Depend Upon A Variety Of Cir Cumstances, As Nearness To A Market, Where It May Be Sold For Hedding, 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 May 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 Famous. Breed Of Cattle, Youatt Says: The Suffolk Dun Used To Be Celebrated In Almost Every Part Of The Kingdom, On Account Of The Extraordinary Quan Tity Of Milk That She Yielded. The Dun Color Is 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. Rhus. 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 Tanning Morocco And Other Fine Leather, ...
Swine
Swine. Sus Scrola. The Origin Of The 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 Times 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 Swiss 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 Hand. Tea. 7 Hat Dridis. A Plant Belonging To The Camelliacem, 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 ...
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 Stoles And Along The Lines Of Our Trunk Railways To Need Particular Descrip Tion. Originally Derived Tram 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, Splenlc 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 Are ...
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 Races, ...
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 ...
Threshing Shocked Corn
Threshing Shocked Corn. The Idea Of Threshing Shocked Corn, And At The Same Time Tearing And Shredding The Stalks By Means Of A Common Threshing Machine, Has Lately Attracted Considerable Attention. We Have Lately, Seen The Statement, However, That It Is Difficult To Get The Stalks Dry Enough To Prevent ...
The Fly Catchers X Family
X. Family Colopleridie, (the Fly-catchers), Genus Tyrannus. Kingbird Fly-catcher. Summer Resi Dent, Common; Insectivorous. Beetles, Grasshoppers, Crickets. And Winged Insects Of All Descriptions Form His Principal Summer Food; In Autumn Berms Constitute A Favorite Repast. Reader, See Him Perched On An Old Mullen Stalk, Watching All Around, And Capturing Every ...
The Owls Iii Family
Iii. Family Strigid2e, (the Owls). Genus Stria;, Owls. Barn Owl. Winter Resident, Rare ; Carnivorous. "i Am Satisfied That Our Bird Feeds Entirely On The Smaller Species Of Quadrupeds " (and.) This, Of Course, Refers To Mice End Other Nocturnal Animals. Genus Bubo. Great Horned Owl Resident, Frequent: Carnivorous. "its ...
The Swallows Xiii Family
Xiii. Family Hibundinidze, (the Swallows). Genus Hinted°. Barn Swallow. Summer Resident, Very Abundant; Insectivorous. Its Food Consists Entirely Of Inserts. -onie Being Small Coleoptera. The Swallows, Like The Swift. Fee I Entirely On The Wing, And Thn Devour Vast Riambers Of Flying Insects, W Hick Otherwise Might Annoy Ns.—cliff Swallows. ...
The Thrtjshes Family Titrdin2e
Family Titrdin2e, (the Thrtjshes). Genus Turdus. Wood Thrush. Summer Resident, Com Mon; Omnivorous. Beetles, Caterpillars, Various Insects; And, In Autumn, Berries, Constitute Its Principal Food. —hermit Thrush. Summer Resident, Frequent; Omnivor Ons• Feeds On Various Insects. Sad Small Berries. Wil Sett63 Thrush. Summer Resident, Frequent; Omnivorous, Like The Preceding, Its ...
The Woodpecker V Family
V. Family Picid2e, (the Woodpecker). Genus Pious. Hairy Woodpecker. Resident, Common; Insectivorous; Feeds On The Laryte Of Insects And On The Insects Themselves; Although In Autumn It Seeks Berries, Etc. Downy Woodpecker. Resident, Common: Insectivo Rous ; Habit:send Food Similar. Red-cockaded Woodpecker. Accidental; Very Rare; Insectivorous; Habits Similar. These Are ...