Annual Report, Volume 8,Deel 1860 |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
acre animals appearance April barn Berkshire better Board Braintree breed breeders bushels carrots cattle cents Chenery Chenery's colt Commissioners committee Commonwealth contagious cords corn costal pleura Cotswold crop cultivation dairy disease dollars England ewes examined exhibition experience farm farmers feed feet fifty flock four fruit grass ground half Hampden Hampshire harrowed harvesting head herd horses hundred important improvement killed labor lambs land legs Leonard Stoddard's loads loam lung male and female manure mares Martha's Vineyard Massachusetts meadow Merino Middlesex Middlesex South milk mutton Nantucket never North Brookfield oats oxen pasture planted pleuro-pneumonia ploughed potatoes pounds premium present produce profit raised rods roots season seed sheep sheep husbandry Short-horn sick soil South South Downs sowed specimens stallions Statement Thoroughbred tion town trees trotting turnips twenty weighed West Roxbury wheat winter wool Worcester
Populaire passages
Pagina 156 - With flowing tail, and flying mane, Wide nostrils — never stretch'd by pain, Mouths bloodless to the bit or rein, And feet that iron never shod, And flanks unscarr'd by spur or rod, A thousand horse, the wild, the free, Like waves that follow o'er the sea...
Pagina 21 - ... shall, on conviction thereof, be punished, by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment, not exceeding three months, or both, according to the nature and aggravation of the offence.
Pagina 11 - In all the pines, a very thin membrane, in appearance much like an insect's wing, grows over and around the seed, and independent of it, while the latter is being developed within its base. Indeed this is often perfectly developed, though the seed is abortive; nature being, you would say, more sure to provide the means of transporting the seed, than to provide the seed to be transported.
Pagina 17 - The jays scream and the red squirrels scold while you are clubbing and shaking the chestnut trees, for they are there on the same errand, and two of a trade never agree.
Pagina 22 - Resolved, That the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, is hereby authorized to appoint...
Pagina 157 - Then plunging back with sudden bound, Headed by one black mighty steed, Who seem'd the patriarch of his breed, Without a single speck or hair Of white upon his shaggy hide: They snort, they foam, neigh, swerve aside, And backward to the forest fly, By instinct, from a human eye.
Pagina 108 - ... extending far backward, and the last rib projecting more than the others; the back flat from the shoulders to the setting on of the tail; the loin broad and flat ; the rump long and broad, and the tail set on high and nearly on a level with the spine, the hips wide, the space between them and the last rib on either side as narrow as possible, and the ribs generally presenting a circular form like a barrel...
Pagina 168 - ... she had just seen a horse with a white leg running away at a monstrous rate, and another horse, a great way behind, trying to run after him ; but she was sure he would never catch the white-legged horse if he ran to the world's end.
Pagina 108 - The orbits of the eye — the eye-cap, or bone, — not too projecting, that it may not form a fatal obstacle in lambing. The neck of a medium length, thin towards the head, but enlarging towards the shoulders where it should be broad and high, and straight in its whole course above and below. The breast should be wide, deep, and projecting forwards between the fore legs, indicating a good constitution, and a disposition to thrive.
Pagina 165 - One white foot, buy him ; Two white feet, try him ; Three white feet, deny him ; Four white feet and a white nose, Strip off his hide and give him to the crows.