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Journal of the House of Lords
… the Natives. Tobacco is also manured. [238]. Do they use Dung? They do, of all sorts. Is it not very much the habit to burn Dung for Fuel? The Dung of Cows and Bullocks is very commonly used, both for …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… holsters, and headstalls. At plough two pair are used; at dung-cart three oxen only are used.' 25 Calves were raised in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… acid and potash in different forms. Farm-yard manure (dung) still holds a high place in their estimation and on the … to be. Covered yards are now more common, and when the dung in these is thrown up into a heap drainage and excessive … not for the seeds of grasses and weeds in the meadow hay, dung would only be allowed to ferment to a slight degree, and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… means to support his sheep, he was left with insufficient dung for his arable, unless the additional ground was … the fold. In fact, the purpose of the sheep, which was to dung and tread corn land, was inconsistent with the need of … fields, and fed with tares or other green food. When dung was available it was put out in a long strawy state and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… so miserably poor that it scarce anywhere produces without dung, and I dare aver that the same quantity of goods could …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… land. From their corn, and cattle, they have plenty of dung for manure, wch. they make no use of, but when it …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… small Islands on the coast there are great quantities of dung, a foot thick, from which great quantities of saltpetre …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… be of no use to them as long as they have not sufficient dung or cattle to help and mend it a little. But as there is …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… some parts of New England are covered very thick with the dung of sea-fowls, and in the woods where wild pigeons take … the ground is three or four feet thick with their dung. So also are the floors of old tobacco-houses in … produce sugar-cane unless forced by great quantities of dung and other extraordinary husbandry and labour, which …