A review of the reports to the Board of agriculture, Volume 5 |
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... farmers of lands within this tithing have in consequence rejected these strange compositions , and are de- termined in future to slacken in their improvements thereof , leaving it to the rector to resort to tithes in kind , till ex ...
... farmers of lands within this tithing have in consequence rejected these strange compositions , and are de- termined in future to slacken in their improvements thereof , leaving it to the rector to resort to tithes in kind , till ex ...
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... farmers , are said to last as a manure for 10 or 12 years . " Yard Dung.-P. 35. " The next species of manure to be mentioned is that which is made in the farm - yards , from the dung and stale of the cattle kept and foddered therein ...
... farmers , are said to last as a manure for 10 or 12 years . " Yard Dung.-P. 35. " The next species of manure to be mentioned is that which is made in the farm - yards , from the dung and stale of the cattle kept and foddered therein ...
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... farms are moderate ; one of 400 acres is a large one ; and many are very small . At the Hadhams they are even as low rented as from 20 to 30l . a - year , and the farmers are worse off than day - labourers . This part is entirely arable ...
... farms are moderate ; one of 400 acres is a large one ; and many are very small . At the Hadhams they are even as low rented as from 20 to 30l . a - year , and the farmers are worse off than day - labourers . This part is entirely arable ...
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... farmers have been very considerable purchasers of land ; a circumstance that has not happened , except in very few instances , in Hertfordshire . The farms are not large , and the expenses of agriculture are higher than common ; which ...
... farmers have been very considerable purchasers of land ; a circumstance that has not happened , except in very few instances , in Hertfordshire . The farms are not large , and the expenses of agriculture are higher than common ; which ...
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... 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 of herbage , chiefly ...
... 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 of herbage , chiefly ...
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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.