. 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. 232 ALL ABOUT COUNTR Y LIFE. Phosphoric Acid. Pigeons. PHOSPHORIC ACID. The union of pliosphorus with oxygen, in the proportion of 5 of the latter to i of the former, forms phos- phoric acids. PHOSPHORUS. A non-metallic element never found in nature in a free state, but abundant in combination with carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen, being a never- liiiling con
. 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. 232 ALL ABOUT COUNTR Y LIFE. Phosphoric Acid. Pigeons. PHOSPHORIC ACID. The union of pliosphorus with oxygen, in the proportion of 5 of the latter to i of the former, forms phos- phoric acids. PHOSPHORUS. A non-metallic element never found in nature in a free state, but abundant in combination with carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen, being a never- liiiling constituent of all cultivated plants. It is likewise one of the chief elements out of which the animal system is built, and is largely present in bones, flesh, blood, and milk. Phos- phorus is luminous in the dark, and is easily ignited by friction, on which account it is used largely in the manu- facture of lucifer matches. PHRAGMITES (Arundo). Or the common reed, a well-known coarse marsh-plant that grows in jilaces too wet and miry for any other useful plant to thrive, requiring no care or cultivation, and only the expense of cutting it down. PHYSIOLOGY. The study of the works of nature. Animal physiology treats of the actions and uses of the various parts of the living body. pia. undergone strangermetamorphoses than the pig in recent years. The old breeds of almost every county were lanky, coarse animals, with much bone and hair, large heads, and long, drooping ears. Tlie type of this animal is now scarcely anywhere to be found, but in its room—little, plump, fleshy swine, with slight hair and small, handsome heads, and fine in bone and muscle, everj'where make their appearance. Not that size and the capacity of attain- ing to great weights have been sacri- ficed with coarseness of bone, hair, and muscle, for finer or heavier animals were never fed than some of the specimens of the large Yorkshire breed turned out at the present day; but these are handsome and well- proporti
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