General View of the Agriculture of HertfordshireG. and W. Nicol, 1804 - 238 ページ |
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acre acres of common Albans Albury amounts arable average bailiff Baldock Barkway barley Beachwood beans Berkhamsted better breed Buntingford bushels bushels per acre BYDE Bygrave chalk CHAP Cheshunt clay clean clover common turnips corn course cows crop cultivated district ditch drilled dung enclosed enclosure expense fallow farm farmers feeding fence field five flints four quarters furrow grass gravel ground Hadham half harrowed Hatfield hedge Hempstead Hertford Hertfordshire HERTS Hitchin horses Hurral husbandry inches JOHN SEBRIGHT King's Walden labour Little Hadham loads loam London manure meadow mowing mown Munden North Mims oats oil-cake open-field oxen parish pease plant plashing plough poor practice produce profitable quantity rent Rickmersworth Royston sainfoin SECT SEDGWICK seed sheep shew soil sown straw strong land strong loam Suffolk Swedish turnips tares threshing tillage tithe trefoil turnip land vales Ware Watford Welwyn Westmill wheat white-thorn WHITTINGTON whole winter tares
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v ページ - THE desire that has been generally expressed, to have the AGRICULTURAL SURVEYS of the KINGDOM reprinted, with the additional Communications which have been received since the ORIGINAL REPORTS were circulated, has induced the BOARD OF AGRICULTURE to come to a resolution to reprint such as appear on the whole fit for publication.
143 ページ - OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, Which may be had of the Publishers of this Volume. Report of the Committee of the Board of Agri.
v ページ - AGRICULTURE to come to a resolution to reprint such as appear on the whole fit for publication. It is proper at the same time to add, that the Board does not consider itself responsible for every statement contained in the Reports thus reprinted, and that it will thankfully acknowledge any additional information which may still be communicated.
95 ページ - The pit is sunk from 20 to 30 feet deep, and then chambered at the bottom, that is, the pitman digs or cuts out the chalk horizontally, in three separate directions ; the horizontal apertures being of a sufficient height and width to admit of the pitman's working in them with ease and safety.
vii ページ - Perhaps the following is the most natural order for carrying on such important investigations ; namely, to ascertain, 1. The riches to be obtained from the surface of the national territory. 2. The mineral or subterraneous treasures of which the country is possessed. 3. The wealth to be derived from its streams, rivers, canals, inland navigations, coasts, and fisheries : And, 4. The means of promoting the improvement of the people, in regard to their health, industry, and morals...
ix ページ - ... various subjects connected with Agriculture. Thus every individual in the kingdom may have, 1. An account of the husbandry of his own particular county ; or, 2. A general view of the agricultural state of the kingdom at large, according to the counties, or districts, into which it is divided; or, 3. An arranged system of information on agricultural subjects, whether accumulated by the Board since its establishment, or previously known: And thus information respecting the state of the kingdom,...
ix ページ - Reports, it was judged necessary, that they should be drawn up according to one uniform model ; and after fully considering the subject, the following form was pitched upon, as one that would include in it all the particulars which it was necessary to notice in an Agricultural Survey. As the other Reports will be reprinted in the same manner, the reader will thus be enabled to find out at once where any point is treated of. to which he may wish to direct his attention.
xiii ページ - XIV. eager to have his kingdom known, and possessed of boundless power to effect it, failed so much in the attempt, that of all the provinces in his kingdom, only one was so described as to secure the approbation of...
95 ページ - The undermentioned method is pursued in chalking land, and the persons employed therein follow it as a trade. A spot is fixed upon nearly centrical to about six acres of land to be chalked. Here a pit, about four feet...
xxi ページ - ... miles in circumference.' It contains eight hundreds, nineteen market-towns, 120 parishes, and 949 villages. It is in the dioceses of London and Lincoln, the province of Canterbury, and is included in the home circuit. Of the climate of this county Mr. Young writes, ' I met with no registers of the weather : nor would they probably have contained any thing materially different from other counlie* equally leathern.