The Cornell Countryman Volume 5-6

Download or read book The Cornell Countryman Volume 5-6 written by New York State Agriculture and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...Undoubtedly Washington and Lafayette stopped to admire its beauty, while passing through the town on their way to Hartford to meet Rochambeau and plan the Yorktown campaign, for even then it must have been above the average in height and spread. So interested are the townspeople in this landmark that recently at a town-meeting it was voted to appropriate a certain sum of money to preserve it for future generations, decay having set in and its life being endangered. Mr. L. H. Mead of Hartford, a practical forester was obtained to superintend the rejuvenation. What lies within the foresters' art can readily be shown by what has been accomplished in this instance. All broken or decayed limbs have been cut away to the extent of nearly six cords of wood. After cleaning out and cutting away all decayed substances from knots and holes a coating of thick paint was applied and the apertures were filled with stone and covered with cement shaded with lampblack, to resemble as closely as possible the bark. The application of paint was to prevent any moisture reaching the live wood from a vacuuin under the cement caused by the expansion and contraction due to heat and cold. One large limb had been weakened and split so this has been H ERE are manyarts and branches of science which are intricate and very difiicult to master. If there is one more difiicult than another, the manufacture of cheese seems to excel them all. When we consider the effect of fermentation and bacterial infiuences, the unknown conditions of milk as received at the factories, the hidden power of rennet action and the intricate combinations which any or all these form to efiect the final result. any attempt to fully describe and attach the proper importance to all the facts...