. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. eactions necessary for the preservation of vegetable life. As the presence of this disease is supposed to begreatly connected with the prevalence of winds from the northern or easterly quarters, there is often a fleaproduced of a similar kind to that which attacks the shoots in their early growth. (6057.) It is highly in-jurious, by preying upon the
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. eactions necessary for the preservation of vegetable life. As the presence of this disease is supposed to begreatly connected with the prevalence of winds from the northern or easterly quarters, there is often a fleaproduced of a similar kind to that which attacks the shoots in their early growth. (6057.) It is highly in-jurious, by preying upon the nutriment of the blossoms, and thereby diminishing their weight and chang-ing them to a brown colour, which is very prejudicial in their sale at the market. 6063. The fire-blast is a disease that hop-crops are exposed to in the later periods of their growth, and isgenerally supposed to proceed from the particular state of the air or weather. Others consider this diseaseas nothing more than the result of the attacks of the red spider. It has been conjectured to be the effectof lightning, as it takes place, for the most part, at those seasons when lightning is the most prevalent] 3 O p:to PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Paet III to8 804 . ! £S Aft. ami in a very Hidden manna : Mid besides the most forward and luxuriant \ in- ?• arc tin I X to be affected. It ha- been suggested, thai In exposures where the crops are partii Lilarly Liable to injury, it maybe advisable to plan) thinner, to keep back the growth of the plants at much as possible, by extirpating all the most forward shoots, and to employ a ten proportion of the earthy compost in their culture. 6064. In respect to the duty on haps, it is best for the planter to have the acts beforehim. Unt every grower of hops in Britain is legally obliged to give notice to the excise,on or before the first day of September) of the number of acres he has in cultivation, thesituation and number of his Oasts, and the place or places of bagg
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