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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… producing wheat and grain of all kinds, beans, peas, and turnips, in the cultivation of which last foreign manure is … the crops are, barley, oats, wheat, potatoes, and turnips. Little attention is paid to the rearing of cattle or … luxuriantly fertile. The crops are, oats, barley, wheat, turnips, and potatoes, with the various grasses; the system …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… cultivation; the crops include oats, barley, potatoes, and turnips. Wheat, for the growth of which the soil is well … state; the crops are, oats, barley, wheat, potatoes, and turnips, peas and beans, with the various grasses; and a … crops of wheat, oats, barley, peas, beans, potatoes, and turnips, with the various grasses; and the pastures are …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the cultivation of wheat, and a lighter description grows turnips to great perfection. Limestone abounds, and the fine …
A History of the County of Sussex
… and 161 a. meadow or pasture. 26 Wheat, barley, oats, turnips, and mangold-wurzels were the chief crops in 1874. …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… and 1794. 19 Roots became part of the rotation and in 1801 turnips accounted for 147 and potatoes for 23 of the 1,715 a. … with heavier soils being left fallow for a year and turnips being grown only on lighter soils. 17 The common of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… of wheat, has been small, the soil being chiefly suited to turnips, large crops of which are produced. The five years' … is usually followed, consisting of two years' grass; oats; turnips; and, lastly, oats or barley, with grass seeds. The … are fed on the pastures, and in autumn many are fed on turnips, and fattened for the market. The farms average about …
A History of the County of Essex
… and a lease of 1826 excepted beans, peas, clover, and turnips from the prohibition against taking more than two … some peas or beans, (3) wheat or other corn, (4) fallow or turnips, mangold, cole seed or tares. 60 By the 1860s … grown on 439 a., barley on 357 a., oats on 241½1/2; a., turnips and swedes on 161 a., and mangolds on 104 a.; smaller …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 2 acres with peas, 3 acres with beans, 96 acres with turnips or rape, 3 acres with rye. 33 Most of the …
A History of the County of Essex
… heath. 20 In 1870 the chief crops were wheat, barley, and turnips. 21 The heath and other wastes were commonable to …