. All about country life : being a dictionary of rural avocations, and of knowledge necessary to the management of the farm, the stable, the stockyard, and a gentleman's out of town residence and property. Agriculture; Country life. A tall, fleet dog, extensively in re- quest for chasing hares. The hound used in coursing matches. Good grey- hounds, that have distinguished them- selves, are valuable and sell for high prices. ;^ioo, ;f 150 or ;(f200 for a flyer being by no means an uncommon figure. GRIEVE. A Scotch designation for the over- seer on a farm. GRIST. A supply of com to be gi'ound in
. All about country life : being a dictionary of rural avocations, and of knowledge necessary to the management of the farm, the stable, the stockyard, and a gentleman's out of town residence and property. Agriculture; Country life. A tall, fleet dog, extensively in re- quest for chasing hares. The hound used in coursing matches. Good grey- hounds, that have distinguished them- selves, are valuable and sell for high prices. ;^ioo, ;f 150 or ;(f200 for a flyer being by no means an uncommon figure. GRIEVE. A Scotch designation for the over- seer on a farm. GRIST. A supply of com to be gi'ound info meal. Small flour mills in rural dis- tricts arc commonly called grist mills, because a large portion of the business conducted in them is grinding grists for farmers, cottagers, and country house- holds, for home baking. GROMWELL (Lithospermum ar- vense). A true agrarian weed. GROTJNDRENT. Rent paid for the privilege of build- ing on the ground of another person. GROUNDSEL {Senecio vulgaris). A plant more of a garden than a farm weed, and of some slight service as food for poultrj'. GROUSE. The various orders of beautiful birds which Linnaus associated in one genus, under the name of tetraro^ included even partridges and quails ; but modeni science has not endorsed this airange- ment, and one leading group of grouse alone is held to be tetraro, while to the ptarmigan, red giouse or moor game, &c., the generic title of lagopiis has been given. The former are forest grouse that take refuge in deep-wooded glens, feeding on the tender shoots of pines, the buds of the birch and alder, and the berries of the arbutus and various other trees. Two species of this genus have been accounted indi- genous to the British isle, namely, black grouse and the capercailzie, or cock-of- the wood. To find the latter, however, at the present day w-e should have to go to Sweden or Norway. Indiscrimi- nate and wanton slaughter, joined to an. unremitting system of harassment, has quite extirpat
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