. 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. 64 HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE. Pakt I. festival. They do net receive any pay ; the gouti and the amusement of the evening are
. 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. 64 HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE. Pakt I. festival. They do net receive any pay ; the gouti and the amusement of the evening are their only ; (Bakewell.) 371. The walnut kernels are laid on cloths to dry, and in about a fortnight are carried to the crushing, mill, where they are ground into a paste ; this is put into cloths, and undergoes the operation of pressing tn extract the oil. The best oil, which is used for salads and cooking, is pressed cold; but an inferior oil for lamps is extracted by heating the paste. Thirty people in one evening will crack as many walnuts as will produce sixty pounds of paste; this yields about fifteen wine-quarts of oil. The walnut-shells are not lost among so frugal a people as the Savoyards, but are burned for the ashes, which are used for washing. Two pounds of these ashes are equal in strength to three of wood-ashes ; but the alkali is so caustic, that it frequently injures the linen. The paste, after it is pressed, is dried in cakes, called pain amerj this is eaten by children and poor people, and it is sold in the shops in Savoy and Geneva. 372. The best walnut oil, pressed cold, has but very little of the kernelly taste; but it may be easily distinguished from the best olive oil, which it resembles in colour. If the peel were taken off the walnuts, the oil would probably be quite free from any peculiar flavour; but this operation would be too tedious. {lb.) 373. Tobacco, which is much used in Savoy, was cultivated with success in the neighbourhood of
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