General View of the Agriculture of the Isle of Man: With Observations on the Means of Its ImprovementC. Macrae, 1794 - 40 ページ |
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3 ページ - TO THE READER. IT is requested that this paper, may be returned to the Board of Agriculture, at its Office in London, with any additional remarks and observations which may occur on the perusal, written on the margin, as soon as may be convenient. It is hardly necessary to add, that...
3 ページ - ... may be convenient. It is hardly necessary to add, that the Board does not consider itself responsible, for any fact or observation contained in...
3 ページ - Husbandry of this diftridl, and of enabling every one, to contribute his mite to the improvement of the country. The Board has adopted the fame plan, in regard to all the other counties in the united kingdom; and will be happy to give every afliftance in its power, to any perfon, who may be defirous of improving his breed of cattle, fheep, &c. or of trying any ufeful experiment in hufbandry.
8 ページ - ... a light sand. The climate of this Isle is somewhat milder than in the neighbouring parts of Great Britain and Ireland, particularly in winter, the frost and snow being slight, and of short continuance ; but the harvests are late, and the grain is sometimes checked in its growth, from the want of sufficient warmth in summer to . bring it to maturity.
27 ページ - Ouw, the herb marsh pennywort, said to be injurious to sheep that eat it.' — Cregeen's Manks Dictionary. Ox-gang. ' An ox-gang is generally used for a certain quantity of land, equal to twenty statute acres.
29 ページ - The ridges of various fizes, thofe of wheat, pcafe, or oats, are narrow, between four and nine feet wide, and barley from 12 to 20 : due attention is not paid generally to drawing them ftraight, or to regular breadths, except on thofe farms where the two horfe teams have been introduced High ridges...
40 ページ - It is not uncommon for the clergyman to fet the tythe to a tenant, who fubfets it to another, and fo through three or four hands, who have each a profit. By that means the impropriator, or incumbent, does not receive the real value of the...
30 ページ - A trad of 2000 acres has received immcnfe and valuable benefit from a drain cut through the loweft places, ten feet wide, and fix deep ; 'its length nearly fix miles, by which a confidcrable quantity of arable land, as well as meadow and pa (lure, has been improved.
30 ページ - REGULAR rotation is little undcrftood or praclifed, it being almoft the universal cuflom to crop the lands after manuring, as long as they are able to bear corn ; then either to furrender them to grafs, or renew them by a frefli dreflmg.
25 ページ - ... were remarkable for their beauty, and were much in requeft in England and Ireland, to run in gentlemen's carriages ; but now their numbers are much diminished, as larger horfes are found to be more ufeful.