The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England

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Page 200 - Physiology has sufficiently decisive grounds for the opinion, that every motion, every manifestation of force, is the result of a transformation of the structure or of its substance...
Page xxix - Thirty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given to the...
Page 194 - If we were to go naked, like certain savage tribes, or if in hunting or fishing we were exposed to the same degree of cold as the Samoyedes, we should be able with ease to consume 10 Ibs. of flesh, and perhaps a dozen of tallow candles into the bargain, daily, as warmly clad travellers have related with astonishment of these people.
Page 136 - ... a great number of small pools, which, for the most part, are stagnant. In the winter season they overflow, and at this season the neighbourhood appears less infected with fever. In the summer months, and greater part of the spring and autumn, they are stagnant, and undoubtedly a fruitful source of malaria; indeed the neighbourhood of Wessington is scarcely ever free from fever at these seasons of the year. It perhaps may not be amiss to mention, I have attended a number of persons in the neighbourhood...
Page 138 - In closing this exposition of the state of the chief external evils that affect the sanitary condition of the labouring population, it may be observed that the experience, on which the conclusions rest as to the principles of prevention is neither recent nor confined to this country. That which is new, is the advantages we possess beyond other times, and perhaps beyond all other countries, in capital and practical science for its application.
Page 135 - In the reports given from the parish ministers in the statistical accounts of Scotland, the effects of drainage upon the general health of the population are strongly marked in almost every county, expressed in notes made from an examination of the returns. Sutherland — parish of Rogart, " healthy, and a good deal of draining.
Page 419 - If an acre yields twenty-eight tons, a rood will yield seven tons, which being brought into pounds, will amount to fifteen thousand six hundred and eighty pounds; and this divided by one hundred and ninety days, will leave eighty-three pounds of turnips for each cow every day, which, with a small portion of the hay and straw you are possessed of, is a very sufficient allowance for a common-sized milch cow ; and over and above all this, you have the second growth of the rood of rape coming forward...
Page 420 - ... being upon the grass both day and night ; and even in winter and spring, whilst there is any open weather, they are always to be seen ranging over the fields in search of food; so that I think you cannot but admit (upon a calculation for the entire year round), the animal is not in the house more than eight hours out of the twenty-four, and it is only the manure made during this period which can be reckoned upon ; therefore, •upon this supposition (which I think is sufficiently correct to show...
Page 136 - ... traffic. Dr. Harrison, whose testimony has been cited on the subject of the analogy of the diseases of animals to those which affect the human constitution, in treating of the prevention of fever or the rot amongst sheep, warns the shepherd that, if after providing drained pasture and avoiding
Page 135 - It is to be understood that drainage appears to form the essential part of agricultural improvement, which is connected with the improvement of health. Thus the notes from another parish in the same county, Kilmuir Wester and Suddy, states it as "healthy; great improvement; scarcely an acre in its original state.

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