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A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… 930 a. of permanent grassland in 1956, by which time sugar beet (83 a.) had become a significant cash crop. Livestock …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… White, he this Informant did promise to meet him upon the beet of a drume, which he told this Informant would be beet to call the people together; and that, according to his … ffriday the first day of September instant, heareing the beet of drum, he did depart from his dwelling house at Little …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… were mainly arable in 1973, growing barley, wheat, sugar-beet, potatoes, and oats. The Institute of Animal Physiology …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… crops are wheat and barley, with oats, beans, and sugar-beet. 124 Almost all the inhabitants are employed by the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Potatoes and cabbages were grown from the 1860s, sugar beet from the 1920s, and over 350 a. of vegetables in 1977, …
A History of the County of Northampton
… The chief crops grown are wheat, beans, and sugar-beet. Manor One and a half hides of socland in Broughton were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… oats were the main crops grown; the cultivation of sugar-beet was discontinued after the Second World War. There were …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… and peas on the highland, and potatoes, celery, sugar-beet and the ordinary cereals on the fenland. Hepmangrove …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 246 In 1960 crops included wheat, potatoes, and sugar-beet, and 80 a. south-west of Camps Green had been planted …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… devoted in 1924 to poultry and fruit-growing. 273 Sugar-beet was grown in the parish in the 1970s, when Mr. P. B. …