. 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. m from it may be made fully available for steam-cooking apparatus, which thuswould cost nothing ; it requires, however, a particular adaptation, in order that the power of the enginemay not be reduced, by driving the steam through any considerable resistance. Occasionally, but rarely, fluids may require to be boiledby steam, as stirabout for pigs,or


. 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. m from it may be made fully available for steam-cooking apparatus, which thuswould cost nothing ; it requires, however, a particular adaptation, in order that the power of the enginemay not be reduced, by driving the steam through any considerable resistance. Occasionally, but rarely, fluids may require to be boiledby steam, as stirabout for pigs,or wash for calves : for these,another form and constructionof vessel altogether is neces-sary. (A. Ma/let.) 8488 7431. Warmth is strongly recommended for pro-moting the health of , it is found, either pro-duces inflammation of thelungs, or pulmonary consump-tion. Heat constantly preventsthis, and alleviates the diseasewhen it has taken place. (An-nales dcs Sciences Naturelles,as quoted in Quart. Jour, ofAgr., p. 568.) Warmth,also, makes fowls lay. Everyhousewife knows that eggs aremost abundant in warm wea-ther ; and all country house-wires know that the only wayto make hens lay in cold wea-ther, when egys are dear, is to. IH66 EN< V( OF AGRICULTUKH. NT. feed them well ami keep tin in w arm — the latter being of very nearly as much Importance as the exot Ileal observation! on the subject of rearing and feeding poultry will be found in our Colt. Arch., I 1324. to 1329., and 5 1356. mm:i ,-i. jite pheasant-fte&r (Jig, 1196.), This Ingenloua invention is manufactured of iron by Ml Mrs, Cottam and Hallen. and seems the best utensil of the kind that we have seen. There is one oltin, lighter and cheaper (see Gawd. Ma/;., »ol. ». p. B89. i, sold by Messrs. Bailey, 272. High Holborn,and by Weir in Oxford street, but it is by no means so durable. B490.—7631. The molemay be extirpated without the use of traps by di


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