General View of the Agriculture of the County of Warwick: With Observations on the Means of Its Improvement, 第 2 巻、第 1 号C. MacRae, 1794 - 60 ページ |
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72 ページ - ... highest land in the county, and is from thence, by some called the Hog's Back of Kent. Between this hill, and the borders of the Weald, and county of...
52 ページ - They arc highly esteemed by the London brewers for their great strength, doing more execution in the copper, than those of any other district. SOIL. The best of the hop plantations of this district, are those which have a good deep rich loamy surface, with a deep subsoil of loamy brick earth...
86 ページ - This district of the county was in ancient times an immense wood or forest, inhabited only by herds of deer and hogs, and belonged wholly to the King. By degrees it became peopled, and interspersed with villages and towns, and by piece-meal was, for the most part, cleared of its wood, and converted into tillage and pasture. There are however some woodlands still in their original state.
106 ページ - ... adopted the same plan, in regard to all the other counties in the united kingdom; and, it is hardly necessary to add, will be happy to give every assistance in its power, to any person, who may be desirous of improving his breed of cattle, sheep, &c. or of trying any useful experiment in husbandry. TO THE READER. IT is requested, that this Paper may be returned to the Board of Agriculture, as soon as may be convenient.
11 ページ - ... with less chalk, and of much better quality. " The west end of the island, even on the hills, has a good mould, from one to two feet deep, a little inclining to stiffness; but the deepest and best soil is that which lies on the south side of the southernmost ridge, running westward from Ramsgate to Monkton : it is there a deep rich sandy loam, and mostly dry enough to be ploughed flat, without any water-furrows.
4 ページ - ... transmitted to the Board of Agriculture, at its office in London, by whom the same shall be properly attended to; and when the returns are completed, an account will be drawn, up, of the state of agriculture in the North Riding, from the information thus accumulated, which,' it is believed, will be found greatly superior to any thing of the kind ever yet made public.
30 ページ - ... 3 to 7 feet deep, under which is generally a layer of chalky marl, and then the rock chalk. This soil is very good, ploughs light, and may bo worked at all seasons, and it produces good crops, if well managed, or
96 ページ - The wether-tegs in the autumn are removed to the fatting, and the ewe-tegs to the breeding grounds, among the two and three yearling ewes. The wethers remain till July or August following, when, as they become fat, they are drawn out and sold to the butchers at the Marsh markets. or are sent to Smithfield. The two yearling wethers, when fat, at this season weigh from twenty to twenty-eight pounds per quarter; and some of the largest and best fed, a few pounds more. The old ewes, here called Barrens,...
96 ページ - ... every field has such a number placed in it as the occupier supposes it will keep; which is from two to three and a half per acre, in proportion to the strength of the field. - . •'. . , :;:>•; .. •; . . • In kindly growing summers it is particularly necessary • to keep a strict watch on the grass, that it may not run away from the sheep; and to prevent it, by adding more sheep, or any other stock that can be had, to keep it under ; for if it is suffered to run from the sheep, they are...