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... Common Fowls Eggs Geese Ducks Page 96 97 98 99 • 100 101 · 103 104 105 · 108 109 • 111 112 112 . 115 120 · 123 126 127 130 131 Game HAY - MAKING Mowing Stacking the Hay Thatching Hay - Stacks HAY - BINDINg and Selling Hay - binding ...
... Common Fowls Eggs Geese Ducks Page 96 97 98 99 • 100 101 · 103 104 105 · 108 109 • 111 112 112 . 115 120 · 123 126 127 130 131 Game HAY - MAKING Mowing Stacking the Hay Thatching Hay - Stacks HAY - BINDINg and Selling Hay - binding ...
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... common in this part of the country , stand nearly before it . The long barn and cow- sheds , if they were not built on rather lower ground , would hide the house altogether . The frontispiece gives as good a view as can be taken , and ...
... common in this part of the country , stand nearly before it . The long barn and cow- sheds , if they were not built on rather lower ground , would hide the house altogether . The frontispiece gives as good a view as can be taken , and ...
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... common in town or country . The hay - barns are like roofs of houses set on very tall legs , with opening weather - boards extending part of the way down , something like those of a brew - house . Hay , stacked in them , of course ...
... common in town or country . The hay - barns are like roofs of houses set on very tall legs , with opening weather - boards extending part of the way down , something like those of a brew - house . Hay , stacked in them , of course ...
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... common in this county and other wood- land parts , by ditches and hedge - rows , gar- nished with the varied forms of stately timber and leafy flowering shrubs . Of those inclosures twenty - one are arable , or plough - land , amount ...
... common in this county and other wood- land parts , by ditches and hedge - rows , gar- nished with the varied forms of stately timber and leafy flowering shrubs . Of those inclosures twenty - one are arable , or plough - land , amount ...
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... common sort . The terms ' ploughman ' and ' clodhopper ' are used in a sneering and vulgar way by many who do not possess nearly the skill and know- ledge of the humble peasant who guides this important machine . In the first place ...
... common sort . The terms ' ploughman ' and ' clodhopper ' are used in a sneering and vulgar way by many who do not possess nearly the skill and know- ledge of the humble peasant who guides this important machine . In the first place ...
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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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