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... tion on city affairs . Perhaps they will feel surprised , and even merry , when they find , that I am about to range the fields and mea- dows for them : - to tell them what I know of ploughing , sowing , reaping , threshing , hay ...
... tion on city affairs . Perhaps they will feel surprised , and even merry , when they find , that I am about to range the fields and mea- dows for them : - to tell them what I know of ploughing , sowing , reaping , threshing , hay ...
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... tion to say that man assists the purposes of nature , any more than to affirm that the mo- tions of the elements may do the same . The Creator appoints and employs the instrument , whatever it be , whether an intelligent or in- animate ...
... tion to say that man assists the purposes of nature , any more than to affirm that the mo- tions of the elements may do the same . The Creator appoints and employs the instrument , whatever it be , whether an intelligent or in- animate ...
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... , as now . The ATP We cannot go farther into the history of the plough at present . As it was found that the more the soil is loosened , stirred , and broken , the greater are its powers of produc- tion. THE PLOUGH . 29 The Plough.
... , as now . The ATP We cannot go farther into the history of the plough at present . As it was found that the more the soil is loosened , stirred , and broken , the greater are its powers of produc- tion. THE PLOUGH . 29 The Plough.
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... tion , it became needful to contrive some means of performing this 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 ...
... tion , it became needful to contrive some means of performing this 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 ...
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A New Account of Rural Toils and Produce Jefferys Taylor. tion ready for it there . The engraving repre- sents one of the common sort . The terms ' ploughman ' and ' clodhopper ' are used in a sneering and vulgar way by many who do not ...
A New Account of Rural Toils and Produce Jefferys Taylor. tion ready for it there . The engraving repre- sents one of the common sort . The terms ' ploughman ' and ' clodhopper ' are used in a sneering and vulgar way by many who do not ...
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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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