The New Farmer's Calendar; Or, Monthly Remembrancer, for All Kinds of Country Business. Comprehending All the Material Improvements in the New Husband

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.1800 Excerpt: ... raging madness, Overturned his fellow, and mangled him dreadfully, but getting disengaged, he ran over hedge and ditch, into the village, where aster doing considerable damage, and suffering most cruel torments, he was at length shot, there being no possibility of approaching to save him; half a crown ought to be allowed to the first discoverer of a hornet's, or wasp's nest. WATER. The neglect of procuring water, by artificial means in situations, where that first of necessaries is, either unwholesome or scarce, is a glaring instance of inattention to a very near interest. In foils which rest upon an iron clay, and in various other descriptions, where the water is hard, or filled with unwholesome earthy particles, the inhabitants are generally troubled with diseases of the urinary bladder, and the horses remarkably subject to the gripes. The beer in such countries is always hard, and unless very old, thick and turbid. To obtain good soft water, would be to add to the comfort of, and even prolong many valuable lives. The end is fully attained, by preserving, in underunder-ground cisterns, rain-water; the most pure, diluting, and wholesome of any. In various parts of the continent, they depend entirely upon rain-water, thus preserved; and from thence the method was communicated to this country, where it seems to have made very little progress, except in Yorkshire. They there excel, both in forming these water-cellars, and the artificial ponds, for the supply of cattle, in their up-land pastures. These cisterns may be made under the dwelling-house, or near to it; but if the demand for water be great, they mould be so placed, as to receive collections from the roofs of as many buildings as possible. The waste rain-water in a garden, may be also very usefully co...