A review of the reports to the Board of agriculture, Volume 5 |
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... equally un- informed . RENT.-P. 30. " Hertfordshire is justly deemed the first and best corn county in the kingdom , though the soil therein is much inferior in point of natural fertility to many other counties ; for notwithstanding its ...
... equally un- informed . RENT.-P. 30. " Hertfordshire is justly deemed the first and best corn county in the kingdom , though the soil therein is much inferior in point of natural fertility to many other counties ; for notwithstanding its ...
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... equally good , may be seen to an inch in such lands , for three or four succeed- ing crops . " Compost . - P . 36. " The mixens or mixtures of spit - dung and good mould , or strong earth , are laid on light gravelly land , or where ...
... equally good , may be seen to an inch in such lands , for three or four succeed- ing crops . " Compost . - P . 36. " The mixens or mixtures of spit - dung and good mould , or strong earth , are laid on light gravelly land , or where ...
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... equally successful in de- stroying weeds is discovered . " ARABLE CROPS . - P . 24. " The grains principally cultivated are wheat , barley , and oats ; and I must here remark , that there is scarce a farm of any extent in the county ...
... equally successful in de- stroying weeds is discovered . " ARABLE CROPS . - P . 24. " The grains principally cultivated are wheat , barley , and oats ; and I must here remark , that there is scarce a farm of any extent in the county ...
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... equally fine , but the beech uncommon . " COPPICES . - P . 145. " The woods in the country between Hockerill , Ware , and Buntingford , are rented generally at about 128. an acre , and cut at twelve years growth , when the produce is ...
... equally fine , but the beech uncommon . " COPPICES . - P . 145. " The woods in the country between Hockerill , Ware , and Buntingford , are rented generally at about 128. an acre , and cut at twelve years growth , when the produce is ...
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... equally general . The farmers are clearly decided in the great advantages attending the practice ; not only in supporting the teams in the cheapest manner , but also in raising large quantities of very valuable manure . " - The species ...
... equally general . The farmers are clearly decided in the great advantages attending the practice ; not only in supporting the teams in the cheapest manner , but also in raising large quantities of very valuable manure . " - The species ...
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acre aforegoing agriculture appears arable land barley Berkshire breed bushels calcareous cattle Chalk Hills chiefly clay clover common considerable corn Cornwall cows crop cultivated dairy district Dorsetshire dung Essex estates ewes expence extent farmers farms feeding feet flock fold forest four frequently grass land gravel ground Heath herbage Hertfordshire horses hundred husbandry improvement inches Isle Isle of Wight Kent kind kingdom labour lambs loam London manure marshes meadows miles nature neighbourhood oats observed occupiers oxen parish pasture plough pounds practice principal produce profit quantity remarks rent Report river river Thames sainfoin sand season seed seldom sheep shillings shire situation soil South Southampton river sowing sown Surrey Sussex tenant Thames tillage timber tithes turnips usually Vale Lands valuable waste waste lands water-meadows Weald wheat whole Wiltshire winter winter tares wood woodlands
Popular passages
Page 131 - That a general election do take place on the 24th of June in each year, and that each vacancy be filled up a fortnight after it occurs. That the hours for voting be from six o'clock in the morning till six o'clock in the evening.
Page 460 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 426 - Canterbury, which is one of the most extraordinary circumstances that the history of non-communication in this kingdom can furnish. The making the road was opposed — for what measure of common sense could ever be started that would not be opposed ! It was no sooner completed than rents rose from 7.?.
Page 120 - Uxbridge, observes that during the whole of the winter there was but one passable track on it, and that was less than six feet wide and was eight inches deep in fluid sludge. To be in character, on a sliding scale, all the rest of the road was from a foot to eighteen inches deep in adhesive mud, which was better.
Page 451 - ... the fore-legs wide ; round and straight in the barrel, and free from a rising back-bone ; no hanging heaviness in the belly ; wide across the loin ; the space between the hip-bone and the first rib very small ; the hip-bone not to rise high, but to be large and wide ; the loin, and space between the hips...
Page 83 - It is greatly to be lamented, that good servants every year become more scarce and difficult to be found. The best domestics used to be found among the sons and daughters of little farmers ; they were brought up in good principles, and in habits of industry ; but since that valuable order of men has been so generally reduced in every county, and almost annihilated in some, servants are of necessity taken from a lower description of persons, and the consequences are felt in most families.
Page 286 - Tenants by Copy of Court Roll, according to the Custom of the Manor...
Page 463 - The management of the land is uniform ; here and there an exception will be found. The whole is convertible, sometimes into arable, and sometimes pasture. Arable is sown with wheat, barley, or oats, as long as it will bear any; and then grass for eight or ten years, until the land is recovered, and capable again of bearing corn.
Page 48 - A moiety, at least, of the arable land in Berkshire, is still lying in common fields ; and though it is not divided into such very small parcels, as in some other counties, the farmer labours under all the inconvenience of commonable land ; and by that, is withheld, from improving or treating his land, so, as to return the produce which it would do, if entire, and under a good course of hushandry." Principle of Appropriation. — P. 49. " With respect to Tithes, the practice generally followed, in...
Page 423 - HI to the vale, before it meets the clay. The soil of this narrow slip is an excessively stiff calcareous loam on a clay bottom ; it adheres so much to the share, and is so very difficult to plough, that it is not an unusual sight to observe ten or a dozen stout oxen, and sometimes more, at work upon it.