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... OF THE FARM 46 Wheat 48 Sowing Wheat 51 Sowing with the Drill 54 Barley 55 Oats 56 Rye 57 PULSE CROPS , & c . 58 Peas and Beans 59 Tares 60 Cow - Cabbages 60 HOPS Mustard Seed Rape Seed Saffron Madder Coriander Caraway Seeds iv CONTENTS .
... OF THE FARM 46 Wheat 48 Sowing Wheat 51 Sowing with the Drill 54 Barley 55 Oats 56 Rye 57 PULSE CROPS , & c . 58 Peas and Beans 59 Tares 60 Cow - Cabbages 60 HOPS Mustard Seed Rape Seed Saffron Madder Coriander Caraway Seeds iv CONTENTS .
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A New Account of Rural Toils and Produce Jefferys Taylor. HOPS Mustard Seed Rape Seed Saffron Madder Coriander Caraway Seeds • Hop - harvest Hop - picking HEMP , FLAX , AND TEASELS Hemp Flax Teasels Straw Halm LIVE STOCK Oxen Sheep Sheep ...
A New Account of Rural Toils and Produce Jefferys Taylor. HOPS Mustard Seed Rape Seed Saffron Madder Coriander Caraway Seeds • Hop - harvest Hop - picking HEMP , FLAX , AND TEASELS Hemp Flax Teasels Straw Halm LIVE STOCK Oxen Sheep Sheep ...
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... seeds . The stables have stalls for fourteen horses , including two of better quality for our own riding nags . I need say nothing about racks and hay - lofts , which are equally common in town or country . The hay - barns are like ...
... seeds . The stables have stalls for fourteen horses , including two of better quality for our own riding nags . I need say nothing about racks and hay - lofts , which are equally common in town or country . The hay - barns are like ...
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... seeds , which are to produce food or shelter for myriads of inferior animals , or to deck the wilderness with flowers . But he employs a more regular and important agency for the spread and cultivation of those plants , which are ...
... seeds , which are to produce food or shelter for myriads of inferior animals , or to deck the wilderness with flowers . But he employs a more regular and important agency for the spread and cultivation of those plants , which are ...
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... called head - lands . But , after all that the plough can do , the clods are still by far too rough and large to re- ceive the seed until another machine has been employed . This is the HARROW , a strong and heavy frame 32 PLOUGHING .
... called head - lands . But , after all that the plough can do , the clods are still by far too rough and large to re- ceive the seed until another machine has been employed . This is the HARROW , a strong and heavy frame 32 PLOUGHING .
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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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