A second series of useful hints for labourers; selected from the publications of the Labourers' friend society |
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... weather not very damp , will require to be salted about six weeks . It is best to be well salted , especially if it is fat , which bacon should always be . Smoked bacon is certainly a good deal better , and more profitable than bacon ...
... weather not very damp , will require to be salted about six weeks . It is best to be well salted , especially if it is fat , which bacon should always be . Smoked bacon is certainly a good deal better , and more profitable than bacon ...
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... weather , and every five or six days in dry weather , rub in fresh salt , and change the flitches by putting the bottom one at the top . The place best adapted for the process must be like a dairy - cool , but not damp , and well aired ...
... weather , and every five or six days in dry weather , rub in fresh salt , and change the flitches by putting the bottom one at the top . The place best adapted for the process must be like a dairy - cool , but not damp , and well aired ...
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... weather and the chance of the bees not making a sufficiency of food to maintain themselves during winter . Third swarms ought always to be returned to the parent hive . Should the bees of any hive lie out in clusters it will be ...
... weather and the chance of the bees not making a sufficiency of food to maintain themselves during winter . Third swarms ought always to be returned to the parent hive . Should the bees of any hive lie out in clusters it will be ...
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... weather . If a certainty exists of there being plenty of food in store , there is no objection to covering and keeping warm , as it will tend to hasten the swarm- ing , perhaps a week or ten days . DECEMBER . - The less the bees are ...
... weather . If a certainty exists of there being plenty of food in store , there is no objection to covering and keeping warm , as it will tend to hasten the swarm- ing , perhaps a week or ten days . DECEMBER . - The less the bees are ...
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... weather , and the bulbs will swell to a great size . By the latter end of June they will be ripe . Onions grown in this way will be ripe six weeks earlier than the onions of the spring sowing , and grow to a much larger size . The globe ...
... weather , and the bulbs will swell to a great size . By the latter end of June they will be ripe . Onions grown in this way will be ripe six weeks earlier than the onions of the spring sowing , and grow to a much larger size . The globe ...
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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.