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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… are, oats and wheat, barley, bear, potatoes, turnips, beet, and a small quantity of flax for domestic use; the … in some parts very good potatoes, turnips, carrots, and beet-root are produced. The farmers pay great attention to …
University of London: the Historical Record (1836-1926)
… None in 1913. 1914. Ballard, Philip Boswood: Private st. Beet, William Ernest: Private study. Fisher, Alexandra: …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 5,548 11,519 10,782 10,054 6,176 7,702 6,946 670 Sugar Beet - - - - 3,306 13,234 16,099 16,616 22,776 Other Green … decline was offset by an increase in the acreage of sugar beet, a new root crop first grown in the county in 1922, but … diminishing to zero in the last five. 46 The history of beet cultivation in Shropshire was closely connected with the …
A History of the County of Essex
… cows, 5 horses, c. 6 sows, and poultry; cereals, sugar beet, and hay were grown. 57 By 1999 there were fewer farms … kept until c. 1985, wheat, barley, rape seed, and sugar beet were grown. 58 Besides occupations connected with …
A History of the County of Oxford
… until after the Second World War. In the 1920s a sugar beet factory was established on the wharf, which continued as …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the main crops were barley, oats, and wheat. 29 Sugar beet was grown, particularly after the establishment of a … its closure in the 1920s. 20 In 1927 a short-lived sugar beet factory was built at the wharf, and railway sidings were …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… had increased considerably at the expense of arable. Sugar beet became an important crop 53 after the Allscott factory …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was 398 a. of barley, 202 a. of wheat, 180 a. of sugar beet, and 250 a. of meadow. In 1315-16 two shepherds worked …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… but later almost disappeared, whereas the area under sugar beet, grown by 1930, had increased by a half to over 660 a. …
A History of the County of Essex
… market gardening. Between the World Wars wheat and sugar beet were grown at Fordham Hall and cows, sheep, pigs, and … straw crop, clover, sainfoin, cabbages, oats, sugar beet, and various root crops, but by 1935 the farm was … 'set-aside' money. 97 In 1994 the Hall farm produced sugar beet, potatoes, peas, barley, wheat, rape, and lin- seed. 98 …
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