. 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. A LL A B O UT CO UNTR Y LIFE. Faxilter. takers—Thorley's—is an excellent Ionic ns well, thereby not only acting ser\'ic- ab]y in enticing food to be eaten, but assisting in the digestion and assimila- tion thereof. In feeding both homed cattle and sheep moderate quantities of root-pulp are far belter than large quantities. An ox will thrive better on one cwt. of sw
. 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. A LL A B O UT CO UNTR Y LIFE. Faxilter. takers—Thorley's—is an excellent Ionic ns well, thereby not only acting ser\'ic- ab]y in enticing food to be eaten, but assisting in the digestion and assimila- tion thereof. In feeding both homed cattle and sheep moderate quantities of root-pulp are far belter than large quantities. An ox will thrive better on one cwt. of swedes, and from five to seven pounds of meal, com, or cake, v/ilh hay or straw to fill up per day, than wiili more swedes and less dry food. Ninety per cent, of the tiuuip is water, which is too hixalive a diet even for ilicep given in entirety. FAULTED. A Yorkihire name for a Kummeler, to take the awns from barley. rA"WlT. A young deer. TAWT. In Yorkshire, is to fallow, called faugh in Scotland. FEE-FARIE. Tenure by which lands are held from a superior lord. FEI^IiYING. In Yorkshire, the first ploughing after a corn crop. rSNCES. Well-trimmed, low fences give a neat and pleasing appearance to any faiTn, and are a truthful indication of thrifty and careful habits being possessed by the farm-manager. Corn fields ought invariably to have their fences shorn twice a year, and should not be allowed to grow higher than 2J to 3 feet. Xeg- lecled fences in com fields are always a fruitful nursery for weed-propagation, as well as a never-failing refuge for birds. The best fences are those of the white thorn ; not only on account of its quick and ready growth, but be- cause the plants present, when thickly trained, such a phalanx of bristUng spikets, that trespassing through the hedge, either by manor beast, is totally Fens. out of the question. Arable land, how- ever, requires few fences, and good fanners often lament ha\'ing too many than not enough of them. In the ease of past
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