"Bloat" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... young alfalfa. The first cutting should be late, when the seed begins to fall: afterwards, when it is well rooted, you can cut it as young as you wish to feed to the stock. Feed it at first sparingly, until the stock becomes accustomed to it, for it causes bloat and excess of blood. After cutting, irrigate the beds frequently, and after a few days, when the roots begin to sprout, weed out all other kinds of grass. Cultivated in this way alfalfa can be mowed six times a year, and it ...
— Roman Farm Management - The Treatises Of Cato And Varro • Marcus Porcius Cato
... air! Lo! arm'd with whirlwind, hail, and frost, Fierce Winter desolates the year. The fields resign their cheerful bloom, No more the breezes breathe perfume, No more the warbling waters roll; Deserts of snow fatigue the eye, Successive tempests bloat the sky, And gloomy damps oppress ...
— Poetical Works of Akenside - [Edited by George Gilfillan] • Mark Akenside |
