General View of the Agriculture of the County of Somerset: With Observations on the Means of Its Improvement, 第 4 巻、第 1 号W. Smith, 1794 - 192 ページ |
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acre Act of Parliament additional obfervations advantage agriculture arable arable land artificial grasses attention barley beans breed bushels cattle cheese clay clover common fields considerable coppice corn cows crop cultivation dairy Deduct rent Derbyshire district draining dung employed expence fallow farm farmers feet fertile fhould five flax foil fome four frequently fuch fyftem grain grazing ground harrowed hedges Herefordshire hills horses husbandry improvement inches inclosed inclosures kingdom labour land landlord Leicestershire lime manufacture manure marle meadow means Mendip Mendip Hills miles mode moſt nature neceffary neighbourhood oats occupiers oxen parishes pasture pease planted plough pounds practice produce profit proprietors purpoſes quantity remarks and additional river roads seed sheep shillings shillings per acre Simonsbath situation soil South Wingfield sowing sown ſtate stone tenant tillage timber tion trees turnips weeds wheat winter wood wool
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37 ページ - In sauntering after his cattle, he acquires a habit of indolence. Quarter, half, and occasionally whole days are imperceptibly lost. Day labour becomes disgusting ; the aversion increases by indulgence ; and at length the sale of a half-fed calf, or hog, furnishes the means of adding intemperance to idleness.
2 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.
26 ページ - IDLENESS, that fell ROOT on which VICE always finds it easy to graft her most favourite plants, and which is found to contribute so much to their future health and prosperity, alone form the characteristic difference. "A cottage, with a few acres of inclosed land, gives the occupier a right to turn stock to these common hills The profit of that stock is expected to supercede the necessity of labour...
86 ページ - County occupiers of another description, very properly styled yeomen ; men cultivating their own estates with a sufficient capital, or employing a considerable capital iu the occupation of the ancient hereditary estates of the gentry.
2 ページ - AGRICULTURE to come to a resolution of reprinting such as may 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 any fact or observation contained in the Reports thus reprinted, as it is impossible to consider them yet in a...
37 ページ - But though this is a remarkable instance of minute division, yet, it takes place to such a degree, as very much to impede all the processes of husbandry. But this is not the worst; the lands shooting different ways, some serve as headlands to turn on in ploughing others; and frequently when the good manager has sown his corn, and it is come up, his slovenly neighbour turns upon, and cuts up more for him, than his own is worth. It likewise makes one occupier subservient to another in cropping his...
86 ページ - ... small tenant-farmers. But year by year they would find it more difficult to keep up their wonted standard of life, and it would appear impossible to improve their position in any way. Thus for example it was reported of the Derbyshire yeoman that " the smaller landowner (provincially
86 ページ - When gathered, they are carefully dried, either in kilns very moderately heated, or on the floors of boarded rooms, heated by slow fires; the object is to keep the flowers white and whole; and this is done only by drying them as slowly as possible.
48 ページ - These are the principal waste lands in the district; there are other smaller tracts : these wastes, in their present state, are not only of very little real utility, but are productive of one very great nuisance, that of the erection of cottages, by idle and dissolute people, sometimes from the neighbourhood, and sometimes strangers. The chief bnilding materials are store poles, stolen from the neighbouring woods.
51 ページ - A tippling-house on the top of a hill, or a favourite piece of land at the bottom, compels the husbandman, at .this day, in many parts of this kingdom, to keep one-third more cattle in his team, than there would otherwise have been occasion for.