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Hints for Australian Emigrants with Engravings and Explanatory Descriptions of the Water-Raising Wheels and Modes of Irrigations Land in Egypt, Suria, South America, Etc

Hints for Australian Emigrants with Engravings and Explanatory Descriptions of the Water-Raising Wheels and Modes of Irrigations Land in Egypt, Suria, South America, Etc


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841. Excerpt: ... following agricultural report of the English corn counties, in the Morning Herald, would have some difficulty in believing that it was not meant for Australia, during these very years: --" Thus, then, in those counties where for the last two years the land could hardly show a plat of green grass, and which depended upon remote districts for a supply of bread-corn, so lamentably poor was the harvest--verdure and every promise of plenty now present themselves." AUSTRALIAN GRASSES. The progressive deterioration of the North American pastures by grazing has been long a matter of notoriety, and by many ascribed to the majority of the pasture-grasses there being annuals, which were not reproduced, in consequence of the stock browsing preventing their seeding, to sow afresh the ground. A similar deterioration of pasture, from grazing, is observed in New South Wales; and as both countries have similarly dry climates, the deterioration of the pastures in both is no doubt referable to the same cause. When grass has perfected its seed, the stem gradually dries up; partly from exhaustion in performing this process, partly from the desiccation of the sun and wind, and partly from the return of a portion of the sap to the roots, whence it came, making this natural-made hay in a great measure devoid of flavour and nutriment, and consequently refused by cattle, except when hunger severely presses. Thus, then, when the grass in Australia is eaten off in a green state, the roots are deprived of a considerable portion of nutriment, which would otherwise return to them; and therefore, should a hot and dry season ensue, two causes would operate in destroying the roots of the browsed grasses. 1st. The deprivation of so large a portion of their vital sap would render them less a...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781458947222
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 24
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 145894722X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 64 gr


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