English Farming, Past and PresentLongmans, Green, 1912 - 504 pagina's |
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Pagina v
... soil rested on a more democratic basis , repudiated as destructive of all forms of private property . The other was , that a considerable increase in the number of peasant ownerships , in suitable hands , on suitable land , and in ...
... soil rested on a more democratic basis , repudiated as destructive of all forms of private property . The other was , that a considerable increase in the number of peasant ownerships , in suitable hands , on suitable land , and in ...
Pagina vii
... soils : traces of sites of early villages : wild field - grass " husbandry ; the permanent division of pasture from tillage ; manors and trade - guilds ; origin of manors ; the thirteenth century manor and village ; divisions of land ...
... soils : traces of sites of early villages : wild field - grass " husbandry ; the permanent division of pasture from tillage ; manors and trade - guilds ; origin of manors ; the thirteenth century manor and village ; divisions of land ...
Pagina 1
... soils : traces of sites of early villages : " wild field - grass " husbandry ; the permanent division of pasture from tillage ; manors and trade - guilds ; origin of manors ; the thirteenth century manor and village ; divisions of land ...
... soils : traces of sites of early villages : " wild field - grass " husbandry ; the permanent division of pasture from tillage ; manors and trade - guilds ; origin of manors ; the thirteenth century manor and village ; divisions of land ...
Pagina 2
... soil first selected for tillage . 66 66 The most primitive form of agriculture is that known as wild field - grass " husbandry . Joint occupation and joint tillage were probably its characteristics , as they afterwards were of tribal or ...
... soil first selected for tillage . 66 66 The most primitive form of agriculture is that known as wild field - grass " husbandry . Joint occupation and joint tillage were probably its characteristics , as they afterwards were of tribal or ...
Pagina 3
... soil of England , survived the criticism of Fitzherbert in the sixteenth century , outlived the onslaught of Arthur Young in the eighteenth century , clung to the land in spite of thousands of enclosure acts , were carried to the New ...
... soil of England , survived the criticism of Fitzherbert in the sixteenth century , outlived the onslaught of Arthur Young in the eighteenth century , clung to the land in spite of thousands of enclosure acts , were carried to the New ...
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acres Act of Parliament agri agricultural agricultural labourers agriculturists allowed arable land Arthur Young average barley Board of Agriculture bread breed Cambridgeshire cattle clover common fields copyholders Corn Laws cottages crops cultivation demesne districts drainage duty eighteenth century employment enclosed Enclosure Acts enclosures England English farming Essex estates exports farmers fens Fitzherbert foreign freeholders grain grass harvest Hertfordshire holdings horses Husbandry important improved increased industry labour landlords landowners legislation Leicestershire Lincolnshire live-stock living lord manor manufacturing manure ment neighbours Norfolk oats occupiers open-field farms open-field system owners Oxfordshire parish Parliament pasture payment period plough Poor Law population practice produce profits progress quarter rates reign rents roads rural says scarcity seasons sheep soil Suffolk supply tenants tillage tion tithes trade turnips turnpike trusts Tusser village farms wages Wales wastes wheat winter wool writers
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...