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... according to her own notions ; and , as I soon found , kind enough , even according to mine . " Sit ye down , Fred , " said she ; " are ye hungry , or thirsty , or both together , like the rest of the Londoners , when they have a mind ...
... according to her own notions ; and , as I soon found , kind enough , even according to mine . " Sit ye down , Fred , " said she ; " are ye hungry , or thirsty , or both together , like the rest of the Londoners , when they have a mind ...
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... according to circumstances about two bushels to the acre is usual . It is afterwards harrowed in , and sometimes even ploughed ; and in a few days or weeks appears the tiny tender blade , which has to endure the utmost rigour of our ...
... according to circumstances about two bushels to the acre is usual . It is afterwards harrowed in , and sometimes even ploughed ; and in a few days or weeks appears the tiny tender blade , which has to endure the utmost rigour of our ...
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... according to the required purpose . Of so great importance to our shipping were the growth and manufacture of hemp consi- dered , about fifty years ago , that Parliament directed a bounty to be paid on its production . Hemp - seed is ...
... according to the required purpose . Of so great importance to our shipping were the growth and manufacture of hemp consi- dered , about fifty years ago , that Parliament directed a bounty to be paid on its production . Hemp - seed is ...
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... according to varying cus- toms , circumstances , and climates . These cattle are less dainty , as feeders in a pasture , than the horse and the sheep ; and leave fewer orts , or refuse food , behind them . In winter , they need hay and ...
... according to varying cus- toms , circumstances , and climates . These cattle are less dainty , as feeders in a pasture , than the horse and the sheep ; and leave fewer orts , or refuse food , behind them . In winter , they need hay and ...
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... which the farmer chiefly looks for a return in money . If , however , animals are to be ranked according to their apparent station in sagacity , dignity , and beauty , the horse should certainly be the first on 90 HORSES . Horses.
... which the farmer chiefly looks for a return in money . If , however , animals are to be ranked according to their apparent station in sagacity , dignity , and beauty , the horse should certainly be the first on 90 HORSES . Horses.
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୪ ୪ ୪ Abbot's ancient animals Author balusters barley barn better Brook Field bundles called caraway cattle chiefly Children cloth clover coloured common COMMON WHEAT CORIANDER corn crop cultivated earth Edition employed England farm farmer feet Field FIORIN flax flowers fork Frontispiece Gablesides grain granary grass ground half-bound hand harvest hedge and ditch hemp hide HISTORY hops horses hundred acres Illustrations inclosures ISAAC TAYLOR John Harris kind labour land London machine machine presses manure ment milk mole-catcher morocco nature nearly oats pasture perennial plant performed persons Philip plant plough Price principal produce purpose quantity require roots scarcely season seed sheep shew shining season side soil sometimes sort sown stack stalks STORIES straw teasels things threshing tillage tion Upshire usually vegetable weather wheat whilst WHITE CLOVER winter wood yard young
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