Until the year 1803, eighteen years after the foundation of this colony, the plough-husbandry was confined to a few of the richest cultivators, from the exorbitant price of cattle.
It assists in the preservation and protection of trees and in planting work, as well as the fostering of farm crops and the husbandry of meat products.
Careful and scientific husbandry is rising in this new country.
Operations of husbandry regulated by observation of the moon, vi.
Lir majoran, a god of husbandry in the Kei Islands, viii.
The forest trees, where not too crowded, are of magnificent growth, and the crops are gloriously abundant where the thriftless husbandry has not worn out the soil by an unvarying succession of exhausting crops.
I understand not the names of the most usuall tooles about husbandry .
There is a kinde of husbandry in knowing how to enjoy it.
Persons between the ages of twelve and sixty, who were not apprentices or engaged in certain specified employments, were compelled to serve in husbandry by the year "with any person that keepeth husbandry.
Act containing divers orders for Artificers, Labourers, Servants of Husbandryand Apprentices" (5 Eliz.
The younger Black took to farming kindly, for one who had only been used to plough the deep, and soon acquired a sufficient knowledge of the simplehusbandry practised at that time.
K Kalm, the Swedish traveller, his account of the husbandry of the British colonies in North America, 94.
But Democritus, who wrote upon husbandry about two thousand years ago, and who was regarded by the ancients as one of the fathers the of the art, thought they did not act wisely who inclosed a kitchen garden.
He is, upon this account, frequently afraid to have a good team of horses or oxen, but endeavours to cultivate with the meanest and most wretched instruments of husbandry that he can.
It is otherwise in the barbarous societies, as they are commonly called, of hunters, of shepherds, and even of husbandmen in that rude state of husbandrywhich precedes the improvement of manufactures, and the extension of foreign commerce.
The principles of husbandry seem as little understood here as in any part of the territory through which we had hitherto travelled.
In no branch of husbandry are the farmers so defective as in the management of cattle.
Noah, they were brought into the plains, and instructed in the arts of husbandry by the patriarch; and the notion of the primitive equality[19] of condition I believe to have originated in the Bacchanalian traditions of the same patriarch.
Latium); but moderation must be exercised in forming such estimates, because we have to deal with a question of averages and with a mode of husbandry conducted neither methodically nor with large capital.
A careful system of vine-husbandry was early and generally inculcated by the Latin priests.
Pastoral Husbandry Ground under pasture was not affected by the distribution of the land.
Culture of Grain Their husbandrywas mainly occupied with the culture of the cereals.
Thus neither husbandrynor the art and practice of war are neglected.
This Horus of the smiths had a short or lame leg, to signify that agriculture or husbandry will halt without the assistance of the handicraft or mechanic arts.
God's husbandry is not merely broadcast sowing of the seed, but the planting in each individual heart of the precious germ.
Hitherto he had considered the Squire's model farm as the nearest approach to good husbandry he had seen; for Jackeymo's finer skill was developed rather on the minute scale of market-gardening than what can fairly be called husbandry.
One Roman writer speaks of husbandry as an art noble enough to occupy the attention of kings; and to this day we seem ready to acquiesce in the opinion.
Husbandry is too large a subject to be learned from the windows of an excursion train, or by the casual consultation of an agricultural cyclopaedia.
The Roman authors duly appreciated the moral influences which the employment ofhusbandry exerted on the mind.
He passed from the diseases of vinegar to the study of a malady which a dozen years ago had all but ruined the silk husbandry of France.
But the richer harvest of this husbandry is gathered during the seventeen years that he spent in that land, ere he himself was gathered to his fathers.
My old dame will be undone now for one to do her husbandry and her drudgery.
If you suspect my husbandry or falsehood, Call me before th' exactest auditors And set me on the proof.
And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps, Corrupting in it own fertility.
Who lets so fair a house fall to decay, Which husbandry in honour might uphold, Against the stormy gusts of winter's day And barren rage of death's eternal cold?
There's husbandry in heaven, Their candles are all out.
The recurrence of seasons of scarcity, and the fluctuation of prices, might suggest a reasonable distrust of the excellence of the husbandry under this reign.
And to begin with his industry; eight hours in each day, during five days in the week, and half of Saturday, except when the labours of husbandry were urgent, he was occupied in teaching.
It seemed the home of poverty and toil, Though not of want: the little fields, made green By husbandry of many thrifty years, Paid cheerful tribute to the moorland House.
This may have been the best policy for the time; it would not have been economical to employ Old World methods of intensive husbandry when such rich extensive areas were being opened up.
The effects of bad husbandry are everywhere apparent, and in many regions fertile fields have been physically and economically destroyed.
