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... weather - boards extending part of the way down , something like those of a brew - house . Hay , stacked in them , of course , requires no thatching ; but I always think that which stands in the open air the sweetest . COW - HOUSES ...
... weather - boards extending part of the way down , something like those of a brew - house . Hay , stacked in them , of course , requires no thatching ; but I always think that which stands in the open air the sweetest . COW - HOUSES ...
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... weather , when the heavy cart does not cut the sward . After this supply has been spread by the fork , children are employed , if necessary , to pick up stones , shells , and other rubbish , which may have been brought on . Soon ...
... weather , when the heavy cart does not cut the sward . After this supply has been spread by the fork , children are employed , if necessary , to pick up stones , shells , and other rubbish , which may have been brought on . Soon ...
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... sown 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.
... sown 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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... weather and insects give them a chance , they pay very well . FIELD BEANS are those , chiefly , which are used for the feed of horses . They are smaller and darker - coloured than the garden sorts . We have them dropped or dibbled in ...
... weather and insects give them a chance , they pay very well . FIELD BEANS are those , chiefly , which are used for the feed of horses . They are smaller and darker - coloured than the garden sorts . We have them dropped or dibbled in ...
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... . The hemp is prepared for manufacture by being spread out on the field to dry , so that the weather may separate the fibres ; or else it is steeped some days in stagnant water . The next thing is to cleanse away the bark from HEMP . 71.
... . The hemp is prepared for manufacture by being spread out on the field to dry , so that the weather may separate the fibres ; or else it is steeped some days in stagnant water . The next thing is to cleanse away the bark from HEMP . 71.
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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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