. 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. 262 ALL ABOUT COUNTRY LIFE. Seakale. wall, and also taken near Hastings, but not held in much esteem. Sewage. A garden vegetable, allied to the cabbage tribe, but belonging to a dis- tinct genus. SEAWEED. In the neighbourhood of marine bays and inlets washed by the tidal waves, much seaweed is collected on the shore and carted to the land to be ploughed i
. 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. 262 ALL ABOUT COUNTRY LIFE. Seakale. wall, and also taken near Hastings, but not held in much esteem. Sewage. A garden vegetable, allied to the cabbage tribe, but belonging to a dis- tinct genus. SEAWEED. In the neighbourhood of marine bays and inlets washed by the tidal waves, much seaweed is collected on the shore and carted to the land to be ploughed in as a green manure. "Whenever the cartage is not too great, the cost of collecting such species of fuci is well repaid, for experience has proved it to be one of the most powerful of gieen manures. As it contains about 75 per cent, of water when first thrown up by the sea, a large proportion of which is lost readily by exposure to the air, the policy suggests itself of diying the sub- stance somewhat ere taking it away whenever practicable, by which means the cost of cartage would be greatly reduced. SEDGE. A species of narrow flag to which wet, marshy land is addicted. SEEDLIP. An oblong vessel filled with seed- com suspended from the operator's neck and carried before him ; the left hand holding it upright while the right takes handfuls of seed therefrom to scatter broadcast on the land. SELLANDER, A diy scab on a horse's hoof or pastern. SEWAGE. The discharge of sewers, consisting of the liquid refuse of towns containing in solution much manurial solid mat- ter. There have been innumerable schemes for utilizing sewage and ren- dering it more available to the agricul- turist, the great obstacle always being the immense bulk of water in which sewage is commonly contained. The various schemes fur precipitating the valuable pro]-)ortions of sewage by the admixture of chemical ingredients have never yet attained a sufficient measure of success to be deemed practical. There
Size: 1236px × 2021px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, booksubjectagriculture, booksubjectcountrylife
