. 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. Il8 ALL ABOUT COUNTRY LIFE. Dog's-tail Grass. nearly a hundred different varieties altogether, DOG'S-TAIL GRASS (Cynosurus cristatus). A perennial, native to Great Britain, affording a capital lawn grass. DOLOMITE. A variety of niagnesian limestone. DOME. Soft wool in Norfolk and Suffolk. DONKEY. A name for the ass. DOOL. A boundary mark in unenclosed fields; also
. 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. Il8 ALL ABOUT COUNTRY LIFE. Dog's-tail Grass. nearly a hundred different varieties altogether, DOG'S-TAIL GRASS (Cynosurus cristatus). A perennial, native to Great Britain, affording a capital lawn grass. DOLOMITE. A variety of niagnesian limestone. DOME. Soft wool in Norfolk and Suffolk. DONKEY. A name for the ass. DOOL. A boundary mark in unenclosed fields; also applied to a grass border around arable DOBKING FOWLS. A celebrated breed, deriving its name from a town of Surrey, where they are considered to have originated. Dorkings are stated to have existed in .Surrey and Sussex coeval with the times of the Romans. They are good layers, fine lairds, and among the best of table birds, on account of the plump- ness and delicate whiteness of their ficsh. The chief characteristic of the Dorking is the ])()Ssession of five claws on each foot. The colour of the pure Dorking is white. Tiiey are long in the body, and short in the legs, and prove as ornamental to tlie farm-yard as they are undoubtedly useful. DOUFF. In tlie Lolhians, a term applied to weak soils. Drainage of Land. DOVECOT. A small dove or pigeon house. DOWNS. These are open parts of the country, on which sheep and cattle graze. Tur- nip cultivation has, ho\\ever, caused a great deal of down land to be broken up during the past half-century, whcre- ever circumstances are at all favourable to arable tillage. Golden harvests and luxuriant green crops are now taken from the tops of hills that, a few years since, only afforded the scantiest herb- age. There is still, however, a con- siderable acreage of open downs in tlic south of luigland and other parts of the kingdom. DRAFF. Spent malt, commonly called brew grains. er s DRAG. A large harrow. The work of draw- ing it over
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