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Page 341 - I proceed to exemplify this, it is right to quote again from Mr. Youatt, as it seems that the writings of other persons obliged him to qualify the preceding statements, and therefore he adds that which is perfectly correct : — " In examining a flock of sheep there will often be very considerable differences in the teeth of the hogs or the one-shears ; in some measure to be accounted for by a difference in the time of lambing, and likewise by the general health and vigour of the animal. There will...
Page 493 - I will shortly recapitulate a few of these results, in order that the reader may be in a position to understand how the action of lime is connected with them.
Page 285 - ... as is also that tooth in the lower jaw which, in opposing it, passes in front of its crown when the mouth is closed. The other teeth of the first set...
Page 341 - The mouth of the lamb newly dropped," says the author (Mr. Youatt), " is either without incisor teeth or it has two. The teeth rapidly succeed to each other, and before the animal is a month old he has the whole eight. They continue to grow with his growth until he is about fourteen or sixteen months old Then with the same previous process of diminution which was described in Cattle, or carried to a still greater degree, the two central teeth are shed and attain their full growth when the sheep is...
Page 75 - ... should do : for nature never intended a heavy animal like a cart-horse to perform slow work only, or chiefly, by strain of muscle, but, on the contrary, by the power of weight as the rule, assisted by strength of muscle as the exception, when extra resistance has to be overcome. Thus, when we curb up a horse's head with our senseless bearing-reins, and make him as ewe-necked as we appear...
Page 31 - Whereas by reason of the neglect or want of co-operation among the occupiers of land to maintain the banks and cleanse and scour the channels of existing drains, streams, or watercourses, lying in or forming the boundaries of such lands, and being or leading to the outfall from such lands and from other lands, much injury is occasioned and improvement prevented, but sufficient powers do not at present exist to remedy the evil aforesaid : be it therefore enacted, that in all such cases...
Page 150 - But so far as London is concerned, and considering only the composition of the liquid which reaches the sewers in the time of rain from the streets, it seems pretty certain that it would be as valuable in a manuring point of view as the ordinary contents of the sewers. There would seem no reason, therefore, to exclude such waters on the ground of the dilution and deterioration of the sewage to which they might be supposed to lead.
Page 465 - ... circumstance prejudicial to the growth of good turf. Rolling presses the whole together, and makes the soil firmer, a matter of great consequence in maintaining a pasture. Indeed, fertilizers and mechanical processes may be looked upon as the means which, after all, keep meadows in the form we now see them; as in truly wild nature, there would be a greater tendency to a distinctive mode of growth than to the formation of a matted turf, as even simply depasturing supplies to a considerable extent...
Page 285 - Kanchil, proverbial both for its swiftness and cunningness, it is said, " that when closely pursued by dogs the creature will sometimes make a bound upwards, hook itself on a branch of a tree by means of its crooked tusks, and there remain suspended till the dogs have passed beneath...
Page 342 - ... teeth. There are also irregularities in the times of renewing the teeth, not to be accounted for by either of these circumstances ; in fact, not to be accounted for by any known circumstance relating to the breed or the keep of the sheep.