A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for Their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of Their Diseases. With a Chapter on Wool, and History of the Wool Trade, and the Management of Sheep in AustraliaW.R. M'Phun, 1838 - 236 páginas |
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... allowed the ene- mies of the change , in distant parts of the kingdom , ample opportunity of striking at the scheme , now that it was entrusted , in many instances , to persons ill quali- fied for the task either of making converts , or ...
... allowed the ene- mies of the change , in distant parts of the kingdom , ample opportunity of striking at the scheme , now that it was entrusted , in many instances , to persons ill quali- fied for the task either of making converts , or ...
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... allowed the expression , alkaline to the touch . Every thing having a tendency to affect the health may always be considered as calculated to diminish this secretion , and , consequently , to deterio- rate the quality of the wool . The ...
... allowed the expression , alkaline to the touch . Every thing having a tendency to affect the health may always be considered as calculated to diminish this secretion , and , consequently , to deterio- rate the quality of the wool . The ...
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... allowed to remain , would lead to a sacrifice of the whole , by robbing the root of a quantity of nutritious matter , which , owing to a dimi- nution of reproductive power , it could ill afford . In this way only can we account for the ...
... allowed to remain , would lead to a sacrifice of the whole , by robbing the root of a quantity of nutritious matter , which , owing to a dimi- nution of reproductive power , it could ill afford . In this way only can we account for the ...
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... allowed to move only with the root foremost , and by which it is enabled to catch I am surprized to find it asserted at page 76 of the book on Sheep , published by the Society for the diffusion of Useful Knowledge , that the depilatory ...
... allowed to move only with the root foremost , and by which it is enabled to catch I am surprized to find it asserted at page 76 of the book on Sheep , published by the Society for the diffusion of Useful Knowledge , that the depilatory ...
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... allowed to remain too long in water , when they become short from undergoing contraction , and resemble after such treatment an imperfect cloth . It is for this reason that the hatter , after tumbling over , in all directions , the fur ...
... allowed to remain too long in water , when they become short from undergoing contraction , and resemble after such treatment an imperfect cloth . It is for this reason that the hatter , after tumbling over , in all directions , the fur ...
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A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for Their Improvement, General ... Ambrose Blacklock Visualização de excertos - 1846 |
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Página 74 - It is remarkable, however, to observe how surely all these classes of men in a few generations, even without any intermarriage with the Hindoos, assume the deep olive tint, little less dark than a Negro, which seems natural to the climate. The Portuguese natives form unions among themselves alone, or if they can, with Europeans. Yet the Portuguese have, during a three hundred years' residence in India, . become as black as Caffres.
Página 202 - As seen in the mouth, the eruption at first consists of whitish or yellowish blisters varying in size from that of a mustard seed to that of a bean.
Página 51 - the growing manufacture of cloth in Ireland, both by the cheapness of all sorts of necessaries of life, and goodness of materials for making all manner of cloth, doth invite your subjects of England, with their families and servants, to leave their habitations to settle there, to the increase of the woollen manufacture in Ireland, which makes your loyal subjects in this kingdom very...
Página 21 - The filaments of white wool, when cleaned from grease, are semitransparent; their surface in some places is beautifully polished, in others curiously encrusted, and they reflect the rays of light in a very pleasing manner. When viewed by the aid of a powerful achromatic microscope, the central part of the fibre has a singularly glittering appearance. Very irregularly placed minuter filaments are seen branching from the main trunk, like boughs from the principal stem.
Página 46 - But the cruellest of our revenue laws, I will venture to affirm, are mild and gentle, in comparison of some of those which the clamour of our merchants and manufacturers has extorted from the legislature, for the support of their own absurd and oppressive monopolies.
Página 120 - ... should be quite full; the back and loins broad, flat, and straight, from which the ribs must rise with a fine circular arch ; his belly straight ; the quarters long and full, with the mutton quite down to the hough, which should neither stand in nor out ; his twist...
Página 51 - ... the growing manufacture of cloth in Ireland, both by the cheapness of all sorts of necessaries of life and goodness of materials for making all manner of cloth, doth invite your subjects of England, with their families and servants, to leave their habitations to settle there, to the increase of the woollen manufacture in Ireland, which makes your loyal subjects in this kingdom very apprehensive that the further growth of it may greatly prejudice the said manufacture here...
Página 94 - ... of fatness. The flesh of sheep when dressed is equally well known to possess a variety of qualities : some mutton is coarse, dry, and insipid, — a dry sponge affording little or no gravy of any colour. Another sort is somewhat firmer, imparting a light-coloured gravy only. A third plump, short, and palatable, affording a mixture of white and red gravy.
Página 76 - Company,' thus writes in a private journal with which we have been favoured : — ' Both the climate and soil appear by nature intended to produce fine wool, and fine animals too, even from the worst beginnings. The latter seems a paradox. The extensive range that can be afforded to every animal keeps it in good condition ; and, perhaps, the native grasses may have more of good in them, than their appearance indicates : however this may be, the climate clearly has a wonderful effect...