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... cultivation and business to be done on the several parcels of land , if each had not its own designation , by which it could be referred to . I believe this is the case with all farms and large estates . Most of the names are evidently ...
... cultivation and business to be done on the several parcels of land , if each had not its own designation , by which it could be referred to . I believe this is the case with all farms and large estates . Most of the names are evidently ...
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... cultivation of those plants , which are especially destined for the support of man and of those creatures which subserve to his wants ; -even the mind and hand of the great consumer , man himself . It is not presump- tion to say that ...
... cultivation of those plants , which are especially destined for the support of man and of those creatures which subserve to his wants ; -even the mind and hand of the great consumer , man himself . It is not presump- tion to say that ...
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... earliest agricultural The vegetables chiefly cultivated in Eng- land for the food or use of man are of three principal kinds : -grain , or seeds ; roots ; and the herbs whose substance chiefly is used for food or PRODUCE OF THE FARM.
... earliest agricultural The vegetables chiefly cultivated in Eng- land for the food or use of man are of three principal kinds : -grain , or seeds ; roots ; and the herbs whose substance chiefly is used for food or PRODUCE OF THE FARM.
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... cultivated in England ; the white and the black . White oats are most common near London , and black oats in the north . Dr. Johnson , who bore no kindly feeling towards Scotchmen and their country , said , in the first editions of his ...
... cultivated in England ; the white and the black . White oats are most common near London , and black oats in the north . Dr. Johnson , who bore no kindly feeling towards Scotchmen and their country , said , in the first editions of his ...
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... cultivated for the table , and used in a green state , are chiefly grown by the market - gardeners ; though some farms near London supply them . With us they are de- signed for use , or sale , as food for cattle , prin- cipally hogs ...
... cultivated for the table , and used in a green state , are chiefly grown by the market - gardeners ; though some farms near London supply them . With us they are de- signed for use , or sale , as food for cattle , prin- cipally hogs ...
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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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