General View of the Agriculture of the County of GloucesterR. Phillips, 1807 - 408 ページ |
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abundance acre advantage agricultural Ashton-under-Hill barley beans breed bushels carried cattle chap cheese Churcham Cirencester clay coal Condicote considerable corn Cotswolds cottages covered cows crop cultivation cyder dairy ditto drain dung Eastington expence farm farmer favourable feet Forest district Forest of Dean frost Gloucester grass ground harrowed harvest Herefordshire horses HUNDRED Hundreds Division improved inches inclosures increased Iron Acton keep labour land Lechlade less lower manure meadows milk mode mowing nearly neighbourhood Newent oats oxen parish pasture Pauntley peas plants plough potatoes poultry pounds practice probably produce profit Pucklechurch purpose quantity raised rent Resides roots Ryelands scarcity SECT seed seldom Severn sheep soil sold sowing sown spring stone straw summer supply surface tenant Tetbury Tewkesbury threshing tillage timber tion trees turnips tythes Upper usually Vale weeds wheat whole winter wool Wotton-under-Edge
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28 ページ - We must, however, ask how much truth there was in these complaints. Certainly the nominal wage had risen during the last twenty-five years; but was it the same with the real wage ? The labourer kept on receiving more and more money.
39 ページ - Is. per acre, for the produce of arable land ; or half-a-crown in the pound, on the rack-rent, of pasture and meadow. Such a demand cannot be deemed inequitable; and it is a justice due to the occupiers to observe, that it is generally submitted to without reluctance. Where, however, the tythes are taken in kind, a...
317 ページ - When a sufficient number of roots have been thus cleaned, they are to be spread on a tin plate, and placed in an oven heated to the usual degree, where they are to remain six or ten minutes, in...
317 ページ - The new root is to be washed in water, and the fine brown skin which .covers it is to be separated by means of a small brush., or by dipping the root in hot water, and rubbing it with, a coarse linen cloth.
16 ページ - the number of yeomen who possess freeholds, of various value, is great, as appears from the Sheriff's return of the poll at the election for a county member in 1776, when 5790 freeholders voted, and the number since that period is much increased.
291 ページ - ... the decay of population is the greatest evil that a state can suffer ; and the improvement of it the object which ought, in all countries, to be aimed at in preference to every other political purpose whatsoever.
2 ページ - The former comprehends all the low country between Tewkesbury and Bristol ; and the latter, the lowlands between the Upper Cotswolds and the Avon, from Tewkesbury to Stratford, wherever that river is a boundary of the county. The Forest district includes the parishes on the west side of the Severn up to Gloucester, and, afterwards, on the west side of the river Leden till it enters the county of Hereford.
39 ページ - A scrupulous exactness, ii» demanding the utmost which the law allows, and all the jealousy of suspicion, are found on one side; and, on the other, every obstacle, arising from subterfuge, equivocation, and chagrin. Hence, mutual animosities, kept up by repeated irritation, law-suits and enormous expences, which sometimes terminate in ruin. To. this may be added, a defeat of the very end of the original establishment, by a dereliction of religious duties on the part of the occupier, and at best...