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Journal of the House of Lords
… on Banyans, who have made Advances on the growing Crop, which Advances are the whole Payment the Ryot ever … is not made 'till late, it has all the Effects of a short Crop, until Navigation can be resumed after the Rains. … I have been in, Cotton has been grown as a second Crop after the Cultivation of Rice. It is an annual Plant …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… prices had made winter wheat a reliable and profitable crop to be stored in intervention warehouses 9 like those at … introduced a 'set-aside' scheme intended to reduce arable crop surpluses, and particularly the growing of cereals on … called for a tightening of the regulations concerning crop spraying. 14 Large-scale drainage schemes enhancing the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… when the soil is not so rich as to endanger losing the crop. 48 Barley was mown by scythes, 'previously furnished … " The decline in these figures, which include grass as a crop, is serious, and if we could clearly distinguish how … of wheat from 1876 to 1906 did not make it a profitable crop to grow even under circumstances in the main favourable. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Italian rye grass (sown the previous spring with a corn crop), early spring-planted vetches, and winter-planted … are eaten on the ground by sheep. Immediately the crop is consumed the ground is ploughed; several harrowings … about the month of April, when the last swedes of the main crop are being eaten off, some farmers, rather than risk the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… until the middle of the 17th century barley was the chief crop. Along the Corallian ridge a higher proportion of the … the middle of the 17th century was (1) bare fallow, (2) crop. 50 This course was used also in some parts of the Chalk … exaggerates the uniformity of common-field courses. Fallow-crop cultivation in the 'hitching' fields varied in location …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Even on inclosed farms, it was said that 'a turnip crop seems rather a matter of accident than of system'. 25 … it fetched as much as 5 guineas for the tithe of the hay crop alone. Estimates of the extent of water-meadows during … on the more loamy, to wheat every other year and a green crop, altered as much as possible, on the deepest and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and a chance of sport for themselves, to maximum crop yields. It was a problem which, on the less enlightened … below what it ought to be'. For this he blamed a slovenly crop rotation, overstocking with breeding ewes, inadequate … the yield of turnips had been good every year, and the hay crop was good throughout the wet seasons except in 1879. He …
A History of the County of Sussex
… a. 6 In the early 1960s grass for dairying was the chief crop, other crops being wheat, oats, barley, potatoes, and … farm, of 294 a., was an arable and sheep farm, the main crop being winter wheat. In 1985 Albourne Place, Bishops …
Old and New London
… sneered at in private by the most rascally faction and crop-eared whelps of those parts, who did their endeavours to …