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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… c. 3,250 apple trees. In 1955 there were 91 a. of sugar beet, by 1977 c. 200 a. 190 In 1830 there were 55 adult …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… also two poultry farmers, 327 and then and later sugar beet, Brussels sprouts, peas, and potatoes were extensively … In 1955 some 1,000 a. of vegetables included 225 a. of beet, 475 a. by 1977. 328 About 1960 one farmer kept pedigree …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… produces cereal seeds (wheat and barley), lucerne, sugar beet, herbage seed, and oil seed rape. Until 1978 it had a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… grown in 1866, nearly 100 a. still in 1885 and 1905. Sugar beet and mustard were also grown from the 1920s. 444 In the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… producers changed to road transport. 505 In 1960 sugar-beet was grown and the farmers opposed the closing of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… included 2,232 a. of arable and 302 a. of grass. 313 Sugar-beet was grown on Hill farm in the 1950s. 314 By 1700 the …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… numbers being higher than those recorded in 1896. Sugar beet filled a quarter of the area, less than 300 a., returned …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… grown in small plots in West field. 77 Since 1930 sugar beet and rape have been introduced. 78 By 1970 sugar beet and fodder beans were being grown in nearly equal …