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Updated: June 19, 2025
"An' how d'ee work the ore o' this Am-Ambo-bo-bominable-avo mountain?" asked the sailor. "We smelt it, of course. We break the lumps of ore into smallish bits and spread them on charcoal, layer and layer about, in a hollow in the ground. This is covered over with a top-dressing of stone and clay.
"They have been clearing out the old chapel," she said; "John Clayhudgeons having, it seems, discovered that the stuff within being, I suppose, the remains of our ancestors was excellent for top-dressing the meadows."
Why, you'll guess in a moment where we put the top-dressing; and when you come to handle my short-horns, I dare swear you'll know to a pound how much oil-cake has gone into their sides." "Oh, you do me too much honour, indeed you do. I only know the general principles of agriculture; the details are eminently interesting, but I have not had the opportunity to acquire them."
The savageries of Richard were quite as vivid as Storri's, perhaps; but at least they had been advantageously hidden beneath a top-dressing of eleven civilizing centuries instead of three; and those eight extra centuries made all the difference in life.
Mahony's face paled under its top-dressing of dust and moisture. To Ocock's gross: "Well, it's your own look-out, confound you! entirely your own look-out," he returned a cool: "Certainly," then moved to one side and took up his stand in a corner of the hall, out of the way of the jostle and bustle, the constant going and coming that gave the hinges of the door no rest.
If the ground selected for the bed is a well-drained sandy loam, is clean, free from sod, roots, stones, etc., I would give it a top-dressing of six inches of good barnyard manure, which by trenching or plowing I would thoroughly mix with the soil to the depth of at least two feet.
I guess if they'd talk more of ROTATIONS, and less of ELECTIONS, more of them are DYKES, and less of BANKS, and attend more to TOP-DRESSING, and lees to RE-DRESSING, it ed be better for 'em. Now you mention the subject, I think I have observed, said I, that there is a great change in your countrymen in that respect.
These twenty-year-interval storms comb out superfluous leaves and branches, cut out dead wood, send to the ground decayed and weakly shoots, and scrub and cleanse trunks and branches of parasitic growths. All is done boldly, yet with such skill that in a few weeks losses are hidden under masses of clean, insectless, healthy, bright foliage. The soil has received a luxurious top-dressing.
"You needn't be a funny ass, man," said Dunster, pained; "heaps of people tell me I ought to have it waxed." "What it really wants is top-dressing with guano. Hullo! another man out. Adair's bowling better to-day than he did yesterday." "I heard about yesterday," said Dunster. "It must have been a rag! Couldn't we work off some other rag on somebody before I go?
Should the vines, however, show a material decrease in vigor, it may become necessary to use a top-dressing of decomposed leaves, ashes, bone-dust, charcoal, etc. Fresh stable-yard manure I would consider the last, and only to be used when nothing better can be obtained. Turn under with the plow, as soon as the manure is spread.
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