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Journal of the House of Lords
… Christian, 68. - District of, its chief Produce is Wheat, Barley, Maize, Pulse, Sugar Cane, Cotton, Rice, &c. …
Journal of the House of Lords
… the Rivers Ganges and Jumna; the chief Produce was Wheat, Barley, various kinds of Grain, Maize, Pulse, Sugar Cane, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… whiteness of the bread doth look like common cheat. What barley is there found, whose fair and bearded ear Makes … b) On the better soil. (1) turnips on summer fallows; (2) barley with broad clover; (3) clover fed or mown; (4) wheat … fields: (1) fallow;   (2) wheat;                    (3) barley or oats, with clover. ( b) In the inclosed lands: (1) …
A History of the County of Oxford
… average. 2. The stonebrash is excellent land for sheep and barley, but requires a wet day once a week. So healthy is it … bred, kept and fattened on the arable land. The excellent barley grown on this soil finds much favour with the Burton … notice. Although the four-course rotation (i.e. roots, barley or oats, seeds, wheat) forms the basis of nearly all …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… at night on the tillage, of which the chief crops were barley and wheat. Horses and wheel ploughs were generally … but the objects of farming, in descending order, were barley, wheat, lambs, malt, and wool. 5 Cereals were thus the … in draught, while until the middle of the 17th century barley was the chief crop. Along the Corallian ridge a higher …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… might be extended. Artificial grass might be sown with the barley or oats, and by partly feeding it off with sheep, and … inclosure in arable districts was the better use of soils. Barley was no longer grown on heavy lands in the Pewsey Vale, … down, the commonfield system of summer fallow, wheat, barley, and oats, and the rotation of turnip, wheat, barley, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… rising, the prices realized for cereals, particularly for barley, were low and unsatisfactory. 36 Here an inflated … of their number. He rightly pointed out that wheat and barley were not the only crops which should be considered, … the same period the price of wheat fell by 38 per cent., barley by 32 per cent., and wool by about 50 per cent. 89 In …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the reduced parish in 1905 was arable, 87 producing wheat, barley, and roots. 88 By the earlier 19th century holdings …
A History of the County of Sussex
… was the chief crop, other crops being wheat, oats, barley, potatoes, and sugar beet. 7 In 1975 more than half … acreage has increased, the chief crops being wheat and barley, with some oats and oilseed rape. In 1984 pasture and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… and a record of a 16th-century charity left by Anne Barley. Chest: in an outbuilding, iron bound, old and …
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