. 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. ALLA^OUT COUNTRY LIFE. t45 Furze Culture. Professors M'Calmont and Furlong have given the subjoined analysis of the mineral composition of furze :— M'Calmont. Furlong. Potash it>'4i5 2o;i-, .Soda 8-23 6-75 Lime ... ... ... i5'25 i6'So ,Phosphates of lime and magnesia, & 24*34 ^g'lS Magnesia 8'3i 527 Sulphuric acid ... 7'5o 6"07 .Silica 572 544 Chlor
. 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. ALLA^OUT COUNTRY LIFE. t45 Furze Culture. Professors M'Calmont and Furlong have given the subjoined analysis of the mineral composition of furze :— M'Calmont. Furlong. Potash it>'4i5 2o;i-, .Soda 8-23 6-75 Lime ... ... ... i5'25 i6'So ,Phosphates of lime and magnesia, & 24*34 ^g'lS Magnesia 8'3i 527 Sulphuric acid ... 7'5o 6"07 .Silica 572 544 Chloride of I2'oo I2'j9 PURZE CULTURE. Sow lolhs. of seed per acre in rows 9 or 10 inches apart on soil worked to a fine tiltli. This may be done by hand, by the worker opening a shallow drill with a hoe, and sowing the seed therein, which is covered by the earth drawn out of the next drill. This maybe per- formed at about 6s. an acre. The months of March and April are accounted the best sowing season. The young plants that spring up will not be fit to cut until after the second season of growth —the autumn of the following year. Some cut them, only evcr^^ alternate rov,-, leaving the other until the follow- ing j'car, and continue afterwards the jiractice, thus giving the shoots two years' growth ; but others deem it un- , and cut the whole of their furze meadow annually, after the first two years required for its maturity. The shoots are in their best state for feeding in the month of January. FYE, OR FEY. In Norfolk and Suffolk, to clear a ditch or dress com. GADFLY. A fly that stings cattle, called also Erecse. GALEOPSIS TETRAHIT. The hemp nettle, so called from a resemblance of its leaves to those of liemp ; and of its flowers to those of the ordinary nettle. The plant grows in cornfields. GALIUIH. A genus of plants of f-tellate order, Galloway Cattle. which is rather extensive, comprehend- ing goosegrass and cleavers, the white water bed-straw, the smo
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