Transactions of the Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, Arts and Manufactures, Instituted in the State of New York, Volum 1

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Side vii - York" and by that name they and their successors shall and may have continual succession, and shall be persons in law, capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts and places whatsoever, in all manner of actions, suits, complaints, matters and causes whatsoever; and that they and their successors may have a common seal, and...
Side 329 - The composition being thus made, care must be taken to prepare the tree properly for its application, by cutting away all the dead, decayed, and injured part, till you come to the...
Side vii - York, for the time being, and their successors, forever hereafter be, and shall be, by force of these presents, one body corporate and politic, in deed, fact and name, by the name of the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York...
Side 329 - Take one bushel of fresh cow-dung, half a bushel of lime rubbish of old buildings (that from the ceilings of rooms is preferable), half a bushel of wood-ashes, and a sixteenth part of a bushel of pit or river sand : the three last articles are to be sifted fine before they are mixed ; then work them well together with a spade, and afterwards with a wooden beater, until the stuff is very smooth, like fine plaster used for ceilings of rooms.
Side 329 - ... mixed with a sixth part of the same quantity of the ashes of burnt bones, put it into a tin box with holes in the top, and shake the powder on the surface of the plaster till the whole is covered over with it, letting it remain for half an hour to absorb the moisture ; then apply more powder, rubbing it on gently with the hand, and repeating the application of the powder till the whole plaster becomes a dry smooth surface.
Side 365 - ... and the fame operation was renewed every day, and the fermentation continued to go on in a proper manner for a fortnight, at the end of this time the fermentation abated and could not be renewed by agitation or otherwife, and the liquor having been found upon trial to have acquired a kind of acid...
Side 330 - ... mixed with it, in order the better to refift the dripping of trees and heavy rains. If any of the Compofition be left for a future...
Side 330 - ... may be kept whole, to prevent the air and wet, from penetrating into the wound.
Side i - Mitchell, be a committee to prepare and report Rules and Regulations for the government of the Society.
Side 365 - ... gallons, Englifh ; this was allowed to cool till it attained the fame temperature as would be proper for mixing yeaft with wort ; when fome yeaft was put to it, as if it had been yeaft to wort, from malt. In ten or twelve hours a fermentation began, which continued very...

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