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... occupied it as partners for several years , with success and mutual comfort . With regard to the method and operations of agriculture , I shall endeavour to please my readers 10 VISIT TO THE FARM - HOUSE . Visit to the Farm-house ·
... occupied it as partners for several years , with success and mutual comfort . With regard to the method and operations of agriculture , I shall endeavour to please my readers 10 VISIT TO THE FARM - HOUSE . Visit to the Farm-house ·
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... operation on a large scale , in the most expeditious and successful manner . Spade husbandry , as it is called , does as well , perhaps better , where it can be accomplished ; but millions of acres cannot thus be tilled . In order ...
... operation on a large scale , in the most expeditious and successful manner . Spade husbandry , as it is called , does as well , perhaps better , where it can be accomplished ; but millions of acres cannot thus be tilled . In order ...
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... in the spring of the year , in dry weather . Some of the early sorts are ready in nine or ten weeks . It is sometimes sown at two operations , and after- wards rolled , to press the earth close , and BARLEY . 55 Barley 55.
... in the spring of the year , in dry weather . Some of the early sorts are ready in nine or ten weeks . It is sometimes sown at two operations , and after- wards rolled , to press the earth close , and BARLEY . 55 Barley 55.
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... operation is a sort of play to the people employed , and is considered a season of festivity . " The chief use of rape - seed consists in the oil it contains , which is employed largely in our cloth manufactories . That portion of the ...
... operation is a sort of play to the people employed , and is considered a season of festivity . " The chief use of rape - seed consists in the oil it contains , which is employed largely in our cloth manufactories . That portion of the ...
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... operation at least safe to the sheep . The performance is rather a rough and toilsome one to , I believe , all concerned . The animals have first to be washed by an almost killing process — repug- nant enough , I doubt not , to the ...
... operation at least safe to the sheep . The performance is rather a rough and toilsome one to , I believe , all concerned . The animals have first to be washed by an almost killing process — repug- nant enough , I doubt not , to the ...
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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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