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A History of the County of Essex
… (223 a.), barley (152 a.), oats (91 a.), peas (45 a.), beans (36 a.), turnips or rape (24 a.), and potatoes (6 a.). … (140 a.), oats (91 a.), peas (78 a.), mangold (72 a.), beans (55 a.), and turnips (42 a.); soft fruit was grown on 4 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… gravelly, and partly clay; the chief crops, wheat and beans; and the principal timber, oak. Lord Southampton is …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… less productive; the crops are, wheat, barley, bear, oats, beans, potatoes, and turnips, with the different grasses. The …
A History of the County of Northampton
… tenants followed a system of mixed farming, growing wheat, beans and other cereals, and all had dairy herds, two of them … rape, with spring break crops including sugar beet, peas, beans and linseed. The farm also had 60 breeding sows. The … wheat was the principal crop, with oil seed rape and beans as break crops; there were 500 grey face ewes and 150 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… fallow followed three successive crops, wheat, barley, and beans were the main produce. 29 About 1839 the 'usual course' … consisted of wheat, then oats and some barley, then beans. In 1837, just before inclosure, the tithes yielded 316 … combs of wheat, 146 of oats with 114 of barley, and 65 of beans, besides peas, coleseed, mangolds, and mustard, and 104 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… soil is a strong clay, producing fine crops of wheat and beans, and the surface is generally level, with a gentle …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… soil is a strong marly loam, producing excellent wheat and beans, and there are large tracts of luxuriant meadow land. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 52 a. were under oats, 43 a. under wheat, and 34 a. under beans. 97 The soil, described at Mapesbury in 1803 as a …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… descending order) of peas, potatoes, turnips or rape, and beans. 27 In 1838 two fifths of the parish was arable, two …