General View of the Agriculture of the County of Norfolk: With Observations for the Means of Its Improvement. Drawn Up, for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, by Nathaniel Kent, of Fulham ... With Additional Remarks from Several Respectable Gentlemen and FarmersPrinted at the Norfolk Press, by Crouse, Stevenson, and Matchett, for George Nicol, London, 1796 - 236 ページ |
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acre advantage againſt allowed almoſt alſo anſwer arable arable land barley becauſe beft beſt Board of Agriculture cafe caſe cattle cauſe chefnut clover confequence confiderable corn courſe crop cultivated Depwade dibbling diſtance eftates eſtabliſhed eſtate expence fame farmer farms faving fays fecond feed feldom fhall fheep fhillings fhould fimilar fince firft firſt foil fome fometimes foon fowing fown ftate fubject fuch fufficient fummer fupport furface grafs greateſt horfes horſes houſes Howlett huſbandry improvement incloſed incloſure increaſe induſtry inftances intereft itſelf labour laft land laſt leaſt lefs leſs likewiſe manure meaſure ment moft moſt muft muſt Norfolk Norwich obferves occafion pariſh perfons plantations planted ploughing poor preſent produce provifions purpoſe quantity raiſed reaſonable remarks reſpectable ſay Scotch Cattle ſeems ſeveral ſhall ſheep ſhift ſhort Sir Thomas Beevor ſmall ſome ſtate ſtock ſuch tenant themſelves theſe thoſe tion trees turnips uſe vetches weft wheat Yarmouth year's lay
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v ページ - Under one or other of these heads, every point of real importance that can tend to promote the general happiness of a great nation, seems to be included. Investigations of so extepsive and so complicated a nature, must require, it is evident, a considerable space of time before they can be completed.
iii 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.
149 ページ - The more the number of horses can be lessened, the better for all ranks of people. The consumption by horses, especially horses of pleasure, and luxury, is astonishing ; for though a horse in agriculture, does not consume above three acres (?) of the fruits of the earth in a year, a horse kept upon the road, eats yearly, in hay and oats, the full produce of five acres of land. A man, allowing him a pound of bread, and a pound of meat a day, or in that proportion, not quite an acre and a quarter ;...
xi ページ - PERFECTION in such inquiries is not in the power of any body of men to obtain at once, whatever may be the extent of their views or the vigour of their exertions.
vi ページ - Surveys shall have been thus reprinted., it will be attended with little difficulty to draw up an abstract of the whole (which will not probably exceed two or three volumes quarto) to be laid before His...
iv ページ - ... 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, founded on a statistical survey, or a minute and careful inquiry into the actual state of every parochial district...
xi 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...
vii ページ - ... the following form was pitched upon, as one that would include in it all the particulars which it was...
81 ページ - in all parts of the county, and are very different in their quality. Those in the neighbourhood of Wymondham and Attleborough are equal to the finest land in the county, worth, at least, twenty shillings an acre ; being capable of making either good pasture, or producing corn, hemp or flax. There are other parts which partake of a wet nature and some of a furze and heathy quality ; but they are most of them worth improving, and all of them capable of producing something ; and it is a lamentable thing,...
72 ページ - The natural industry of the people is such that, wherever a person can get four or five acres together, he plants a whitethorn hedge around it, and sets an oak at every rod distance, which is consented to by a kind of general courtesy from one neighbour to another. . . . In this way many or most of the common fields of East Norfolk appear to have been enclosed...