A second series of useful hints for labourers; selected from the publications of the Labourers' friend society |
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... rods of land : twenty rods I sowed with the white chaff red wheat , and twenty rods I planted with potatoes . The produce of wheat from the twenty rods was six bushels and ten trusses of straw ; and the pro- duce of the potatoes from ...
... rods of land : twenty rods I sowed with the white chaff red wheat , and twenty rods I planted with potatoes . The produce of wheat from the twenty rods was six bushels and ten trusses of straw ; and the pro- duce of the potatoes from ...
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... rods , forty - nine bushels * . We are very thankful for this land , without which I believe my mother and I must have gone into the work- house . THOMAS PIERCE . FRUITFULNESS OF ALLOTMENTS .-- At the meeting of the Battel Horticultural ...
... rods , forty - nine bushels * . We are very thankful for this land , without which I believe my mother and I must have gone into the work- house . THOMAS PIERCE . FRUITFULNESS OF ALLOTMENTS .-- At the meeting of the Battel Horticultural ...
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... rod or two , and prick out four thousand of each in rows , at eight inches apart , and three inches in the row ; hoe the ground between them often . Early in November , lay some manure on the remaining thirty rods between the ridges ...
... rod or two , and prick out four thousand of each in rows , at eight inches apart , and three inches in the row ; hoe the ground between them often . Early in November , lay some manure on the remaining thirty rods between the ridges ...
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... rods , if the cabbages all stood till they were solid , will give her food for two hundred days , at eighty pounds a day , which is more than she would eat ; but you must use some that are not solid , and some will split before you can ...
... rods , if the cabbages all stood till they were solid , will give her food for two hundred days , at eighty pounds a day , which is more than she would eat ; but you must use some that are not solid , and some will split before you can ...
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... rods of ground in which you have sowed and pricked out the cabbage - plants , the plants that will be left there will in April serve you for greens ; in a part of these four rods you will , in March or April , as before directed , have ...
... rods of ground in which you have sowed and pricked out the cabbage - plants , the plants that will be left there will in April serve you for greens ; in a part of these four rods you will , in March or April , as before directed , have ...
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Página 143 - ... He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Página 98 - I found this countryman was a member of our Artisans' Library, and every Saturday evening he walked over to the town to exchange his books. I asked him whether reading did not make him less satisfied with his daily work; his answer deserves universal attention : — " Before he read, his work was weary to him ; for, in the solitary fields, an empty head measured the time out tediously, to double its length; but, now, no place was so sweet as the solitary fields: he had always something pleasant floating...
Página 84 - Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap ; it will be dear to you.
Página 65 - Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.
Página 146 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Página 52 - Of all obstacles to improvement, ignorance is the most formidable, because the only true secret of assisting the poor is to make them agents in bettering their own condition, and to supply them, not with a temporary stimulus, but with a permanent energy.
Página 83 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Página 143 - He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
Página 118 - Punctuality is important, because it subserves the Peace and good Temper of a Family : The want of it not only infringes on necessary Duty, but sometimes excludes this Duty.