The New England farmer; or, Georgical dictionary: containing a compendious account of the ways and methods in which the most important art of husbandry. In all its various branches, is, or may be, practised to the greatest advantage in this country / By Samuel Deane, A.M. Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

  • Samuel Deane
Date:
1790
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The New England farmer; or, Georgical dictionary: containing a compendious account of the ways and methods in which the most important art of husbandry. In all its various branches, is, or may be, practised to the greatest advantage in this country / By Samuel Deane, A.M. Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    39/350 (page 29)
    BLO er, is: fo much greater. moit natural, isa low wet foil, and _ miry that carts cannot well go on ; And from thence it has been places: But Mr. Roque tells us, s* It grew two feet anda half the firt year, ina-dry foil; four fect , the fecond year : ge at every joint it fends out branches, which will ftrike root wherever they full grown: plant of this grafs out of the ground, it was found capable of roots, or off-fets ; that thefe off-fets, even in the beginning of July will bear feed the {ame year.”. Mr, Eliot thinks dreiaeds {wamps are a very proper foil for the culti- vation of this grafs ; he allows that it makes a good hay, little inferiour it keeps green for a long time, fo that it may be mowed at any time from July to Ogtober ; and that it is fo fruitful as to produce three tons of hay onan acre. BLOOD, the liguor which cir- culates through the arteries and veins of animals, It confilts of water, oil, falt, earth and air, all which feetwaats: are foed for plants. It abounds with oil and falt more than moft bodies ; there- fore it may be allowed to be one of the richeft manures ; and experi- mnents have proved it to be fo. It is beft to mix it with other fub- {tances before it is ufed. If a farm- er could get the blood of animals in. fufiicient uantity,. he might bring his rab A to any degree of richnefs. He may afford to give a good price forthe filth at flaugh- tet-houles, as alarge proportion of it 1s blood.—It is owing, in great meafur e, to the blood of fowls, and other animals, which is f pilt in back . BRO is fo valuable a manure, farmer fhould take care:to -have all] has. killing done in places where.the blood: will be faved for manute. A tity of dirt; the {crapings of a yard, i x ae compott. miry rie oraf{wamp.. Some bogs: when they have a {ward of grals- roots, will fhake and tremble under the foot. Such land is unprofitas ble, or even. a nuifance, until it be drained... Butafter draining, it be, the greatelt of crops, without any {wamp efteually, is to palsa ditch cut off the fj ipringas which come from the upland. In order to judge a a bog will pay the expenfe of draining, length, mutt be confidered, and al~ It will be thinner after drying than before ; enough for the deepeft ploughing, after it is dried and fettled. See Eliot on Freld-Hufoandry.. BROWSE, young {prouts from: wood, twigs of trees, and bufhes. Ina new country, browfing is a cattle. browfe, In the former part of fum- Salt