A second series of useful hints for labourers; selected from the publications of the Labourers' friend society |
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... is for the purchase of forks , hoes , rakes , and dibbles , with a cask to hold them when out of use ; flails and thrashing - floors would also be saved by the children taking the straw up by handfuls , and dashing 4 USEFUL HINTS .
... is for the purchase of forks , hoes , rakes , and dibbles , with a cask to hold them when out of use ; flails and thrashing - floors would also be saved by the children taking the straw up by handfuls , and dashing 4 USEFUL HINTS .
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... straw not being bruised , a small quantity is sufficient for thatching , when bound on with straw bands . No barn is needed for housing corn , because corn keeps freer from vermin and mildew by being stacked like the ridge of a house ...
... straw not being bruised , a small quantity is sufficient for thatching , when bound on with straw bands . No barn is needed for housing corn , because corn keeps freer from vermin and mildew by being stacked like the ridge of a house ...
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... straw upwards of five feet and a - half high . One of the tenants at Hadlow , who occupies only thirteen rods of land , for which he pays a rent of three shillings and threepence per annum , has this year grown one thousand fine ...
... straw upwards of five feet and a - half high . One of the tenants at Hadlow , who occupies only thirteen rods of land , for which he pays a rent of three shillings and threepence per annum , has this year grown one thousand fine ...
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... straw , light this to windward , and as it burns away , renew it twice or thrice , till the hair is all singed off , taking particular care not to scorch or burn the skin itself . Do the under side in the same manner . Then , without ...
... straw , light this to windward , and as it burns away , renew it twice or thrice , till the hair is all singed off , taking particular care not to scorch or burn the skin itself . Do the under side in the same manner . Then , without ...
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... straw , grass , or ferns , laid between the rows and the plants , not to cover the leaves , will pre- serve them completely ; if the plants in the thirty - six rods fail in part , fill up their places later in the winter by those from ...
... straw , grass , or ferns , laid between the rows and the plants , not to cover the leaves , will pre- serve them completely ; if the plants in the thirty - six rods fail in part , fill up their places later in the winter by those from ...
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Pasajes populares
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.