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Title: A new family encyclopedia, or, Compendium of universal knowledge : comprehending a plain and practical view of those subjects most interesting to persons, in the ordinary professions of life : illustrated by numerous engravings
Year: 1831 (1830s)
Authors: Goodrich, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1790-1862
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Philadelphia : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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rthe mill, and for medicinal purposes. It is sometimes, however, sownin gardens, and the tender leaves used as greens, early in the spring. To raise seed for flour of mustard, &c, sow either in March orApril, in any open compartment; or make large sowings in fields,where designed for public supply. Sow moderately thick, either indrills, from six to twelve inches asunder, or. broad-cast and rake, orharrow in the seed. When the plants are two or three inches in thegrowth, hoe and thin them moderately, where too thick, and clearthem from weeds. They Will soon run up in stalks, and in July orAugust return a crop of seed ripe for gathering. KETCHUP is a sauce, which derives its name, it is said, from aJapanese word kit-jap. It is made, or ought to be made, from thejuice of the mushroom. Wild mushrooms, from old pastures, aregenerally considered as more delicate in flavor, and more lender inflesh, than those raised in artificial beds. ENCYCLOPEDIA. ANIMALS, 81 SECTION V.—ANIMALS. L^iL
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82 FAMILY DOMKSTIC ANIMALS. — LION, DOMESTIC ANIMALS. For an account of neat cattle, horses,sheep, and swine, together with the proper mode of rearing and man-aging them, &c, see Part V. Sec. II. Art. Agriculture. In respect to other animals, it will not comport with the design ofthis work to give a minute and extended account. Yet, as it mightotherwise be thought quite incomplete, we shall proceed to notice afew of the most interesting animals found on the globe, without con-fining ourselves exclusively to those which are used as aliments. Webegin with the LION. This noble animal is far from being as large in size, as manyothers. His ordinary height is between three and four feet, and hislength six feet. Some are still larger. His head, neck, and shouldersare large ; while his hinder parts are comparatively thin, and small.His strength and courage are such, as to entitle him to the appellationof kt King of Beasts. The only animals whichever, seriously, pre-tend to cope with him

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