 | Frederic William Maitland - 1897 - 558 pages
...comes Cornwall. * Marshall, Review of Report to Board of Agriculture from Southern Departments, 521 : ' The management of the land is uniform ; here and there...is recovered, and capable again of bearing corn.' See also p. 531 : the lands go back to the waste 'in tenfold worse condition than [that wherein] they... | |
 | Frederic W. Maitland - 1921 - 556 pages
...comes Cornwall. " Marshall, Review of Reports to Board of Agriculture from Southern Departments, 521: 'The management of the land is uniform; here and there...is recovered, and capable again of bearing corn.' See also p. 531 : the lands go back to the waste 'in tenfold worse condition than [that wherein] they... | |
 | Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1841 - 384 pages
...much beyond the advancement in the improvement of their lands. The management of the lands is uniform. Arable is sown with wheat, barley, or oats, as long...eight or ten years, until the land is recovered and again capable of bearing corn. Very often it remains in furze or brambles for twenty-five or thirty... | |
 | Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1897 - 1078 pages
...from arable to grass time after time, — wheat, barley, and oats being sown as long as the land would bear any, and then grass for eight or ten years, until the land was recovered and capable again of bearing corn.* Such a system, which brought all the lands of the... | |
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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... 