 | Gardening - 1827 - 520 pages
...against Birds taking Seeds out of the Ground in Gardens, $c. — " Mix together 1 Ib. of gas tar, Jib. of brown spirits of tar, and J Ib. of grease ; into this...together, to supply evaporation for a greater length of time. Common tar, with a little gunpowder bruised in it, has the same effect. We make these remarks... | |
 | Gardening - 1827 - 522 pages
...Birds taking Seeds out of the Ground in Gardens, Sfc. — " Mix together 1 Ib. of gas tar, J Ib. of brown spirits of tar, and J Ib. of grease ; into this...of sticks." (Robert Gorton, Chemist and Druggist, Wolverhampton, April 11. 1827.) — The effect is produced by the smell of the sulphurated hydrogen... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1827 - 568 pages
...together one pound of gastar, a quarter of a pound of brown spirits of tar, and a quarter of a pound of grease. Into this dip some shoemaker's thread or twine, and draw it several times over the newly-sown beds, supported a few inches frum the earth on tbc tops of sticks. Cure for Lice in Cattle... | |
 | Luke Herbert - Industrial arts - 1828 - 394 pages
...of the ground in gardens, &c. Mix together lib. of gas tar, Jlb. of brown spirits of tar, and Jib. of grease; into this dip some shoemaker's thread or...a few inches from the earth on the tops of sticks. BUDDING. — In the Agricultural Journal of the Pays Bas, it is recommended to reverse the usual mode... | |
 | 1836 - 496 pages
...quarter of a pound of brown spirits of tar, and one quarter of a pound of grease ; into this dip some thread or twine, and draw it several times over the newly sown beds, supported ft few inches from the earth, on the tops of sticks. Budding. — IN the Agricultural Journal of the... | |
 | 1837 - 488 pages
...quarter of a pound of brown spirits of tar, and one quarter of a pound of grease; into this dip some thread or twine, and draw it several times over the...few inches from the earth, on the tops of sticks. Budding. — Iv the Agricultural Journal of the Pays Bas, it is recommended to reverse the usual mode... | |
 | 1837 - 490 pages
...quarter of a pound of brown spirits of tar, and one quarter of a pound of grease ; into this dip some thread or twine, and draw it several times over the...few inches from the earth, on the tops of sticks. Budding. — IN the Agricultural Journal of the Pays Bas, it is recommended to reverse the usual mode... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 580 pages
...together » one pound of gas tar, a quarter of a pound of brown spirits of tar, and a quarter of a pound of grease. Into this dip some shoemaker's thread, or twine, and draw it several times over the newly-sown beds, supported a few inches from the earth on the tope of sticks." These precautions taken,... | |
 | Family manual - 1859 - 304 pages
...Mix together one pound of gas tar, a quarter of a pound of brown spirits of tar, a quarter of a pound of grease ; into this dip some shoemaker's thread...a few inches from the earth on the tops of sticks. To prevent Swallows Building in Window Corners. IF the places where they usually build be rubbed with... | |
 | Luke Hebert - 1828 - 392 pages
...of the ground in gardens, &c. Mix together lib. of gas tar, |lb. of brown spirits of tar, and ] )!>. of grease ; into this dip some shoemaker's thread...a few inches from the earth on the tops of sticks. BUDDING.—In the Agricultural Journal of the Pays Bas, it is recommended to reverse the usual mode... | |
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To Preserve Seeds. — THE following has been recommended as a certain preventive against birds taking seeds out of the ground in gardens, &c. Mix together one pound of gas-tar... 