| 1848 - 726 pages
...their provision of hay piece by piece, and found it to consist chiefly of the choicest grasses and sweetest herbs, all cut when most vigorous, and dried...so slowly as to form a green and succulent fodder ; he found in it scarcely any ears or blossoms, or hard and woody stems, but some mixture of bitter... | |
| William Kirby - 1835 - 578 pages
...examine their provision of hay piece by piece, and found it to consist chiefly of the choicest grasses, and the sweetest herbs, all cut when most vigorous,...so slowly as to form a green and succulent fodder; he found in it scarcely any ears, or blossoms, or hard and woody stems, but some mixture of bitter... | |
| 1836 - 686 pages
...examine their provision of hay piece by piece, and found it to consist chiefly of the choicest grasses, and the sweetest herbs, all cut when most vigorous,...so slowly as to form a green and succulent fodder ; he found in it scarcely any ears, or blossoms, or hard and woody stems, but some mixture of bitter... | |
| William Kirby - 1837 - 976 pages
...piece, and found it to consist chiefly of the choicest grasses, and the sweetest herbs. 1 Lagamys. all cut when most vigorous, and dried so slowly as to form a green and succulent fodder ; he found in it scarcely any ears, or blossoms, or hard and woody stems, but some mixture of bitter... | |
| 1837 - 680 pages
...the Royal Society an animal resembling the Pika found in Scotland, but probably a different species. all cut when most vigorous, and dried so slowly as to form a green and succulent fodder; he found in it scarcely any ears, or blossoms, or hard and woody stems, but some mixture of bitter... | |
| William Benjamin Carpenter - 1844 - 608 pages
...herbage for its winter provision ; and of this it makes regular stacks, which aie sometimes four or fire feet in height, by eight in breadth. A subterranean...choicest grass and the sweetest herbs, all cut when most vigorons, and dried so slowly as to form a green and succulent fodder ; and the collections of it furnish... | |
| 1845 - 618 pages
...examine this provision of hay, piece by piece, and found it to consist chiefly of the choicest grasses and the sweetest herbs, all cut when most vigorous,...so slowly as to form a green and succulent fodder ; he found in it scarcely any ears or blossom, or hard and woody stems, but some mixture of bitter... | |
| Robert Armitage - 1846 - 660 pages
...examine this provision of hay, piece by piece, and found it to consist chiefly of the choicest grasses and the sweetest herbs, all cut when most vigorous,...so slowly as to form a green and succulent fodder ; he found in it scarcely any ears or blossom, or hard and woody stems, but some mixture of bitter... | |
| 1836 - 634 pages
...examine their provision of hay piece by piece, and found it to consist chiefly of the choicest grasses, and the sweetest herbs, all cut when most vigorous,...so slowly as to form a green and succulent fodder ; he found in it scarcely any ears, or blossoms, or hard and woody stems, but some mixture of bitter... | |
| William Benjamin Carpenter - 1848 - 596 pages
...— The Lagomyg or Pica of Siberia, an animal nearly allied to the Hare, is of much interest, r• ii account of its peculiar instincts. It is about the...sweetest herbs, all cut when most vigorous, and dried so elowly as to form a green and succulent fodder ; and the collections of it furnish a valuable supply... | |
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