. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. AGRICULTURE AS PRACTISED IN BRITAIN. 1359 pear the first season, without applying cither water or manure t
. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. AGRICULTURE AS PRACTISED IN BRITAIN. 1359 pear the first season, without applying cither water or manure to the ; {Stephens on Irrigation and Draining, p. 59.) s+i:6 Renovating defective meadow*. The late Mr. Sinclair, of the New Cross Nursery, had perhaps more experience, as he certainly had more science and skill, in this department than any other man. In his excellent work the Hortus (Iramineus Woburncnsis, he recommends first ascertaining that the meadow is completely under-drained: then stirring the surface, by harrowing it, in all directions; the best harrow for which is unquestionably that of Finlayson. Alter this, he gives a thorough top-dressing of rich finely divided compost; he again harrows and cross harrows, and then sows from two to six pecks per acre of grass and clover seeds. For a meadow of low rich alluvial soil, he employs meadow fox-tail, meadow cats, tail, meadow fescue, rough-stalk meadow grass, crested dog's-tail grass, sweet-scented vernal grass, and perennial red clover. In two years such a meadow will be thoroughly renovated, and will bear abundant crops of hay. 8427. â6041. The process of drying hops is as follows : â After being gathered from the bine, or stalk, the flowers are immediately carried in bags to the kiln, on which they are spread out to the thickness of from six to ten inches all over the surface of the kiln. The fire is then lighted, and kept burning briskly night and day, so long as there are any hops ready to be dried. It
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