General View of the Agriculture of BuckinghamshireR. Phillips, 1810 - 412 páginas |
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Página 106 - It is enough to make the heart of a spectator ache, who knows the effect and the absurdity of it, to see five horses at length drawing a plough, and that perhaps upon a rich loam, where the force required is not more than 3 cwt. He cannot but think that in such cases the first horse draws the second, the second the third, the third the fourth, the fourth the fifth, and the fifth the plough, and that in fact the principal part of the draught lies upon the first horse...
Página 14 - Stand, never overlooked, our favourite elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary hut ; While far beyond, and overthwart the stream, That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale, The sloping land recedes into the clouds ; Displaying on its varied side the grace...
Página 5 - The first cause of a kingdom's thriving is the fruitfulness of the soil to produce the necessaries and conveniences of life, not only sufficient for the inhabitants but for exportation into other countries. The second is the industry of the people in working up all their native commodities to the last degree of manufacture. The third is the conveniency of safe ports and havens, to carry out their...
Página 405 - A General View of the Agriculture of the County of Argyle, by JOHN SMITH, DD one of the Ministers of Campbelton, 8vo.
Página 405 - THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, Which may be had of the Publishers of this Volume. Report of the Committee of the Board of Agri. £. id ture on the Culture and Use of Potatoes, 410. 050 Account of Experiments tried by the Board of Agriculture on the Composition of various Sorts of Bread, 410. - - - o I o Letter from the Earl of WINCHILSEA, on the Advantages of Cottagers renting Land, 410.
Página 228 - ... counties, yet very valuable. In the south part of Bucks, and upon the Chiltern Hills, the pasture land is very small in comparison with the arable, but in the rest of the county pastures form large dairy farms, and almost half the farms of a mixed nature, except in the instances of land under...
Página 291 - Ib. to 1201b.; they have each on three of their sides, three marks, one on each side, viz. a figure to denote the number of dozen pounds which the flat holds, a letter to denote the farmer's name whose butter it carries, and the name and residence of the carrier. These flats, together with the cloths in them, are the property of the carrier who receives the butter, the carriage of which is paid by the butter factor in London. The only trouble which the dairy -man has, is to carry his butter upon...
Página 17 - In a survey of the streams and rivers in Bucks, with reference to its agriculture, it is impossible not to observe, that these streams, which would add so much to the service of agriculture by draining the land, are suffered to be filled with silth, rubbish, and all sorts of aquatic plants, and are by no means in such a state as to allow a sufficient passage for the water, which frequently runs down from the hills very rapidly ; the consequence is, that along the...