English Farming, Past and PresentLongmans, Green, 1912 - 504 pagina's |
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Pagina vii
... arable land ; the meadows ; the hams ; the pasture commons ; the prevalence and permanence of the open - field system ; the domestic industries of the village . CHAPTER II . THE BREAK - UP OF THE MANOR . 1300-1485 . Pp . 1-30 Great ...
... arable land ; the meadows ; the hams ; the pasture commons ; the prevalence and permanence of the open - field system ; the domestic industries of the village . CHAPTER II . THE BREAK - UP OF THE MANOR . 1300-1485 . Pp . 1-30 Great ...
Pagina x
... arable land and pasture commons as described by the Reporters to the Board of Agriculture , 1793-1815 ; ( 1 ) The North and North - Western District ; ( 2 ) West Midland and South - Western District ( 3 ) South - Eastern and Midland ...
... arable land and pasture commons as described by the Reporters to the Board of Agriculture , 1793-1815 ; ( 1 ) The North and North - Western District ; ( 2 ) West Midland and South - Western District ( 3 ) South - Eastern and Midland ...
Pagina 1
... arable land ; the meadows ; the hams ; the pasture commons ; the prevalence and permanence of the open - field system ; the domestic industries of the village . IMPROVEMENTS in the art and science of English agriculture were in its ...
... arable land ; the meadows ; the hams ; the pasture commons ; the prevalence and permanence of the open - field system ; the domestic industries of the village . IMPROVEMENTS in the art and science of English agriculture were in its ...
Pagina 2
... arable tillage by village communities , if it ever prevailed in this district , was soon exchanged for a system of convertible husbandry better suited to a damp climate . The cultivated land is divided into little patches by the high ...
... arable tillage by village communities , if it ever prevailed in this district , was soon exchanged for a system of convertible husbandry better suited to a damp climate . The cultivated land is divided into little patches by the high ...
Pagina 3
... arable from pasture land . The change indicates an advance towards a more settled state of society , but not necessarily an advance in agricultural practice . The fixed division of tillage and grass may have been introduced into this ...
... arable from pasture land . The change indicates an advance towards a more settled state of society , but not necessarily an advance in agricultural practice . The fixed division of tillage and grass may have been introduced into this ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 203 - They will here meet with rutts which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer...
Pagina 352 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge or drive the rapid car ; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded, bear The flying chariot through the fields of air...
Pagina 60 - ... for years, lives, and at will, whereupon much of the yeomanry lived, were turned into demesnes. This bred a decay of people, and, by consequence, a decay of towns, churches, tithes, and the like.
Pagina 434 - ... a convenient stock of flax hemp wool thread iron and other necessary ware and stuff to set the poor on work: and also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame impotent old blind and such other among them being poor and not able to work...
Pagina 436 - ... to be inconvenient and oppressive, inasmuch as it often prevents an industrious poor person from receiving such occasional relief as is best suited to the peculiar case of such poor person, and inasmuch as in certain cases it holds out conditions of relief injurious to the comfort and domestic situation and happiness of such poor persons.
Pagina 203 - A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged to hire two men at one place to support my chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible country, which must either dislocate their bones with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand.
Pagina 426 - The Reformed Husband-Man; or a brief Treatise of the Errors, Defects, and Inconveniences of our English Husbandry, in ploughing and sowing for corn...
Pagina 235 - Nor is it in the view of productiveness alone, that such an enclosure is to be wished: the morals of the whole surrounding country demand it imperiously. The vicinity is filled with poachers, deer-stealers, thieves, and pilferers of every kind : offences of almost every description abound so much, that the offenders are a terror to all quiet and welldisposed persons; and Oxford gaol would be uninhabited, were it not for this fertile source of crimes.
Pagina 447 - Pease or Beans. If the produce of and imported from any British Possession out of Europe; Wheat, Barley...
Pagina 118 - Come, Brethren of the water, and let us all assemble, To treat upon this Matter, which makes us quake and tremble ; For we shall rue...