In manufacturing centers, where a large proportion of the women are employed in confining work, the percentage of mothers who are able to nurse their children is exceedingly small; consequently the infant mortality is very high.
The net result is an unpardonable death-rate and a large proportion of invalids.
Fruit contains a large proportion of water as compared with other articles of diet; and, therefore, is especially capable of quenching thirst.
Water also, since it forms such a large proportion of their milk, should be taken freely by nursing mothers.
Plants which have become variegated as seedlings, generally transmit their character by seed to a large proportion of their progeny; and Mr. Salter has given me a list of eight genera in which this occurred.
A large proportion of the trees were Melastomas, which bore a hairy yellow fruit, nearly as large and as well flavoured as our gooseberry.
A large proportionof the specimens sent from Ega die before arriving at Para, and scarcely one in a dozen succeeds in reaching Rip Janeiro alive.
The trade in skins is mainly with the L 1ited States through Aden; America also takes a large proportion of the coffee exported.
The two last named are exclusively Greek, but a large proportion of the inhabitants of Kiretchhane are Bulgarian.
Women's finery formed a large proportion of their loot, and was evidently intended for their wives at home.
This variety, which is harvested in the late summer, is characterized by a large proportionof gluten and a correspondingly small amount of starch.
Since the cost of cereals is moderate, they should form a large proportion of the diet of the entire family, especially if the family's income will allow only a limited sum to be spent for food.
The cereals are essentially a carbohydrate food, but some also yield a large proportion of protein.
Although fats make up such a large proportion of the daily food supply, they enter into the body composition to a less extent than do the food substances that have been explained.
To understand the action of this plant, it will be necessary to remember that wheat contains a large proportion of starch.
During the last fifteen years I have been compelled to spend a large proportion of my time away from the school, in an effort to secure money to provide for the growing needs of the institution.
While among those two classes there were many capable, earnest, godly men and women, still a large proportion took up teaching or preaching as an easy way to make a living.
A large proportion of these people had been drawn to Washington because they felt that they could lead a life of ease there.
Constituencies are very like sheep, and if the leaders jump through a certain gap in the political hedge the flock, or a large proportion of it, will generally follow.
It is said that a large proportion of broccoli is used in the manufacture of pickles.
After being rooted, they may be potted, using soil with a large proportion of sand.
The codlin-moth lays the eggs that produce the pinkish caterpillar which causes a large proportion of wormy apples and pears.
Cyclamens may be grown from seed sown in April or September in soil containing a large proportion of sand and leafmold.
So again is the well- known fact, that plants which increase largely by stolons or other such means are often utterly barren, with a large proportion of their pollen-grains in a worthless condition.
In the height of its prosperity, this mission is recorded as having two thousand three hundred and thirty-three fruit trees, a large proportion of which were orange trees.
Raisins of the third class are sent to the stemmer and a large proportion of them then go to the seeder.
So it is with the other animals, and with a large proportion of the plants, as shown by Dr.
It may be suggested that by a very simple device a large proportion of these payments could be recovered.
A large proportion of our population to-day, a large and an increasing proportion, has no localized interests at all as an eighteenth-century person would have understood locality.
To perceive this aspect, and to profess an entire detachment from the whole vacuous business was considered by a large proportion of the more thoughtful people of the world the supreme achievement of philosophy.
Should the black wines be carefully manufactured, they will be extensively used for mixing with thin French wines, as they generally possess strength and body in large proportion to their price.
Gaudry observed a portion of the plain near Trichomo covered with an efflorescence of soda, which by analysis yielded about two-thirds of sulphate of soda, with a large proportion of sulphate of magnesia and other salts.
Their neglect of their children, a cause from which a large proportion of the few born perish, is a part of this universal carelessness.
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