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Page 9
... pounds at a time , I have found the best and most farinaceous potatoe rather to gain than lose . I am not enabled from experience to judge of the comparative excellence of roasted and steamed potatoes . Assuming bulk to be as re ...
... pounds at a time , I have found the best and most farinaceous potatoe rather to gain than lose . I am not enabled from experience to judge of the comparative excellence of roasted and steamed potatoes . Assuming bulk to be as re ...
Page 13
... pound of soap and a quarter of a pound of soda , to a stone of clothes . All that is requisite , is to have a a tub of plane - tree , or fir without any iron . They require steam- ing for about an hour , and are afterwards washed out in ...
... pound of soap and a quarter of a pound of soda , to a stone of clothes . All that is requisite , is to have a a tub of plane - tree , or fir without any iron . They require steam- ing for about an hour , and are afterwards washed out in ...
Page 17
... pound of cut straw , mixed with his usual quantity of corn . In the evening , fourteen pounds of potatoes , and the same quantity of straw mixed with his corn , or they mix the straw in the pro- portion of the potatoes . They cook twice ...
... pound of cut straw , mixed with his usual quantity of corn . In the evening , fourteen pounds of potatoes , and the same quantity of straw mixed with his corn , or they mix the straw in the pro- portion of the potatoes . They cook twice ...
Page 19
... pounds of oats was added per diem to each horse , with six pounds of car- C 2 ..rots rots and steamed straw . This feeding did not answer as a Substitute for Ilay . 19.
... pounds of oats was added per diem to each horse , with six pounds of car- C 2 ..rots rots and steamed straw . This feeding did not answer as a Substitute for Ilay . 19.
Page 24
... pounds of carrots to each horse ; they have only one bushel of oats or beans bruised , and one bushel of bran allowed per the week , and I think of withdrawing the bran , now they have carrots . I had 270lb . of this vegetable on ten ...
... pounds of carrots to each horse ; they have only one bushel of oats or beans bruised , and one bushel of bran allowed per the week , and I think of withdrawing the bran , now they have carrots . I had 270lb . of this vegetable on ten ...
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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