Essay on Sheep: Their Varieties, Account of the Merinoes of Spain, France, &c., Reflections on the Best Method of Treating Them, and Raising a Flock in the United States : Together with Miscellaneous Remarks on Sheep, and Woollen ManufacturesDaniel Cooledge, 1813 - 143 páginas |
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Essay on Sheep: Their Varieties Account of the Merinoes of Spain, France &C ... Robert R. Livingston Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
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Página 138 - Tis the voice of the sluggard ; I heard him complain, " You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again." As the door on its hinges, so he on his bed, Turns his sides, and his shoulders, and his heavy head. "A little more sleep, and a little more slumber...
Página 138 - I pass'd by his garden, and saw the wild brier, The thorn and the thistle grow broader and higher ; The clothes that hang on him are turning to rags : And his money still wastes till he starves or he begs.
Página 139 - Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured ; but thousands and millions are of small avail to alleviate the protracted tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the powers of digestion.
Página 23 - Jorvellanes, in a memoir addressed to the King of Spain, says ' the corps of Junadines (proprietors of flocks) enjoy an enormous power, and have, by the force of sophisms and intrigues, not only engrossed all the pastures of the kingdom, but have made the cultivators abandon their most fertile lands : thus they have banished the stationary flocks, ruined agriculture, and depopulated the country.
Página 21 - The race varies greatly in size and beauty in different parts of Spain. It is commonly rather smaller than the middle sized sheep of America. The body is compact, the legs short, the head long, the forehead arched. The ram generally (but not invariably) carries very large spiral horns, has a fine eye and a bold step. The ewes have generally no horns. The wool of these sheep is so much finer and softer than the common wool, as to bear no sort of comparison with it; it is twisted and drawn together...
Página 119 - ... which contains grease, and about one-eighth of the whole by measure of spirits of turpentine. This liquor is rubbed upon the part infected, and spread to a little distance round it, in three washings, with an interval of three days each.
Página 32 - The stock from which the flock of Eambouillet was derived, was composed of individuals beautiful beyond any that had ever before been brought from Spain ; but having been chosen from a great number of flocks, in different parts of the kingdom, they were distinguished by very striking local differences, which formed a medley disagreeable to the eye, but immaterial as it affected their quality.
Página 33 - Almost all the fleeces of the rams of two years old, and upwards, weigh from twelve to thirteen pounds, but the mean weight, taking rams and ewes together, has not quite attained to eight pounds, after deducting the tags and the wool from the belly, which are sold separately.
Página 121 - ... answer,) set fire to the tobacco, and while one man holds the sheep between his knees, let another open the wool, while a third blows the...
Página 21 - ... bear no sort of comparison with it ; it is twisted and drawn together like a cork-screw ; its length is generally about three inches, but when drawn out it will stretch to nearly double that length. Though the wool is, when cleaned, extremely white, yet on the sheep it appears...