View of the Agriculture of Middlesex;: With Observations on the Means of Its Improvement, and Several Essays on Agriculture in General. Drawn Up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture,B. Macmillan, printer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 1798 - 597 ページ |
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347 ページ - 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.
196 ページ - I AM directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade...
373 ページ - Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with those in the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that account the greatest of all improvements.
102 ページ - ... transport their few articles of furniture from one common to another. These, during the stay of their owners, are turned adrift to procure what food they can find in the neighbourhood of their tents, and the deficiency is made up from the adjacent, haystacks, barns, and granaries. They are not known to buy any hay or corn, and yet their cattle are supplied with these articles, of good quality.
225 ページ - ... receiving any damage from the wind, by means of a straw rope extended along the eaves, up the ends, and near the ridge. The ends of the thatch are afterwards cut evenly below the eaves of the stack, just of sufficient length for the rainwater to drip quite clear of the hay. When the stack happens to be placed in a situation which may be suspected of being too damp in the winter, a trench of about six or eight inches deep is dug round, and nearly close to it, which serves to convey all the water...
350 ページ - ... every week. For instance, a good workman, at nine shillings per week, if advanced to twelve, will spend a day in the week at the alehouse, which reduces his labour to five days or ten shillings ; and as he will spend two shillings in the public-house, it leaves but eight for his family ; which is one less 188 189 than they had when he earned only nine shillings.
228 ページ - The hard, benty hay of a poor soil is in little or no danger of firing in the stack; and should, therefore, be put very early together, in order to promote a considerable perspiration, as the only means of imparting a flavour to such hay, which will make it agreeable to horses and lean cattle: it will be nearly unfit for every other sort of stock. " It is the succulent herbage of rich land, or land highly manured, that is more likely to generate heat sufficient to burst into...
223 ページ - Next, the grass-cocks are to be well shaken out into staddles (or separate plats) of five or six yards diameter* If the crop should be so thin and light as to leave the spaces between these staddles rather large, such spaces must be immediately raked clean, and the rakings mixed with the other hay, in order to its all drying of a uniform colour.
302 ページ - ... quart, the profit is surely so large as ought to prevent even the smallest adulteration. But when it is considered how greatly it is reduced by water, and impregnated with worse ingredients, it is much to be lamented that no method has yet been devised to put a stop to the many scandalous frauds and impositions in general practice, with regard to this very necessary article of human sustenance.
295 ページ - ... to attend the king ; but it was not deemed expedient that the abbot should be absent at the same time, and his petition was consequently rejected. On the return of that monarch from Palestine, he offered up the rich standard of Isaac, king of Cyprus, at the shrine of St. Edmund. To Bury belongs, if not in a superior, at least in an equal degree with Runimede, the honor of that celebrated charter, by which the rights and liberties of Englishmen are secured. It is not generally known, perhaps,...