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Page xi
... commencement of this reign favourable to the interests of Agriculture , or calculated to raise it in the opinion of the country . The fashionable political doctrine of the day asserted it to be more advantageous for Great Britain to ...
... commencement of this reign favourable to the interests of Agriculture , or calculated to raise it in the opinion of the country . The fashionable political doctrine of the day asserted it to be more advantageous for Great Britain to ...
Page xxi
... re- frain from giving active support to every measure by which the cultivation of the soil can be promoted ? Can this be too often or too strenuously impressed on the public ? But But a few years ago , ( since the commence- PREFACE . XXI.
... re- frain from giving active support to every measure by which the cultivation of the soil can be promoted ? Can this be too often or too strenuously impressed on the public ? But But a few years ago , ( since the commence- PREFACE . XXI.
Page xxii
... commence- ment of the war ) a twelfth part of the grain annually consumed was imported . In the two years preceding the last , a twenty- fourth part only wasr equired . In the year preceding the last , though there was a fail- ure in ...
... commence- ment of the war ) a twelfth part of the grain annually consumed was imported . In the two years preceding the last , a twenty- fourth part only wasr equired . In the year preceding the last , though there was a fail- ure in ...
Page 5
... commencement , when I was obliged to be a few days from home . It proved the necessity of my constant and unremitting personal attention . For some months I dedicated a very considerable por- tion of my time to the superintendance of it ...
... commencement , when I was obliged to be a few days from home . It proved the necessity of my constant and unremitting personal attention . For some months I dedicated a very considerable por- tion of my time to the superintendance of it ...
Page 64
... commencement of the year , to 40 Highlanders , and 120 sheep . The cows were not in general milk till the beginning of November , when the milk obtained exceeded 50 gallons per day ; 30 and upwards in the morning , and 20 in the evening ...
... commencement of the year , to 40 Highlanders , and 120 sheep . The cows were not in general milk till the beginning of November , when the milk obtained exceeded 50 gallons per day ; 30 and upwards in the morning , and 20 in the evening ...
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1st Jan acre advantage afford agriculture allowance ascertain attention average barley benefit Bishop of Landaff bread bushels cabbages carrots carts cash paid cattle ciety clover commencement considerable consumption contributed Corn laws cost dairy DISBURSEMENTS ditto drill duce employed equal estimate exertion expense experiment farmer favour feeding four grain grazing green crops green food ground half horses hundred improvements increase interest J. C. CURWEN John Fletcher kohlrabi kylo labour land Little Broughton loss lucerne manure means ment milch cows milk millions mode months oats object oil-cake opinion person plough population potatoes pounds practice produce profit proportion quantity quarts rye-grass saving Schoose Farm season sheep shillings sickness six pence society soiling sold steamed potatoes steaming Steaming House stewards stone straw supply supposed tion tons town turnips twelve Ulverston week weight wheat whole Workington