Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Bindi 11 |
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ACCOUNTS and CERTIFICATES acres afcertain alſo anſwer Bart beſt broad-caft bushels caft ciety Cinnamon Clafs confideration crop cultivated delivered diſcover ditto EDWARD PAKENHAM Effex Encouragement of Arts Eſq expence experiments F. R. and A. S. fame premium famples fecond Tueſday fent fhillings fhould firft Tueſday firſt foil fome fowed fown fpring Fremington fubject fuch fuperior further George GOLD MEDAL greateſt number greateſt quantity GUINEAS hoeing Honourable horfes Hornchurch humble fervant inches James JAMES GARNER Jofeph John laft laſt Tueſday leaſt lefs meaſured method moſt muſt myſelf obferved perfon who fhall plants ploughed potatoes pounds pounds weight preferving premium is extended premium offered premiums are ex prevent produced purpoſe raiſed reſpect Rhubarb Richard roods rudder Samuel ſhall SILVER MEDAL Sittingbourne ſmall Society ſtate theſe Thomas thoſe trees Tueſday in December Tueſday in February Tueſday in January Tueſday in November turneps TWENTY GUINEAS uſe wheat wheel William
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Síða 352 - ... within that part of Great Britain called England, the dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick upon Tweed...
Síða 166 - A, the entrance of the water. B, the float, having a circular aperture in the centre: in which is suspended c, a cylinder, running down in the case E below the bottom of the pentrough. This is made water tight at the bottom of the pentrough at F, by a leather collar placed between two plates, and screwed down to the bottom.
Síða 4 - ... dryness and a very binding quality ; and if applied to trees in its natural state, will occasion them to be bark-bound. To remove this difficulty, tar is of so strong a...
Síða 20 - The pipkin wat then filled, by degrees, with vegetable or common tar, and conftantly ftirred, till the mixture was blended together as intimately as poffible ; and this quantity will, at any time, be fufficient for two hundred trees. To prevent danger, let the corrofive fublimate be mixed with the tar as quickly as poffible, after it is purchafed ; for, being of a very poifonous nature to all animals, it mould not be fuffered to lie about a houfe, for fear of mifchief to fome part of the family.
Síða 18 - It is neceflary that they be rubbed, and not cut; for cutting increafes the number. As our work drew near a conclufion, one of the tenants faid, " we underftand our bufinefs fo well, that I wifh we had another job;" upon which my fervant obferved, " you had better keep in your own parifh, for the people are much diflatisfied.
Síða 19 - ... hundred but what was in a clear healing ftate : and the healing of the wounds is the bufinefs ; for nothing but prejudice can make a perfon think, that a tree overloaded with wood will produce good fruit : you may as well...
Síða 19 - The medicated tar above mentioned, as ufed in the foregoing experiments, was compofed of one quarter of an ounce of corrofive fublimate, reduced to fine powder, by beating with a wooden hammer, and then put into a three-pint earthen pipkin, with about a glafs full of gin, or otfier fpirit, ftirred well together, and the fublimate thus diffolved.
Síða 342 - Satisfactory certificates, from the governor, or commander in chief, of the place of growth, with an account of the number of trees, their age, nearly the quantity of fruit on each tree, and the manner of culture, to be produced on or before the first Tuesday in December, 1802.
Síða 18 - We fometimes had our doubts whether a particular branch fhould be taken off. The idea I brought it under was this : confider whether it will be in the way three years hence : if it will, the fooner it is off the better.
Síða 5 - To remove this difficulty. culty, tar is of fo ftrong a favour, that a fmall quantity, mixed with other things in their nature open and loofe, will give the whole' mixture fuch a degree of its own tafte and fmell as will prevent hares, &c; touching what it is applied to; Take any quantity of tar...