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A History of the County of Sussex
… and garden herbs. 2 The lessee in 1785 was required to fallow the arable in alternate years or sow it with peas and …
A History of the County of Essex
… Layer-de-la-Haye specified that the tenant was to have a fallow year after every two grain crops, undertake systematic … no more than two grain crops were to be grown without a fallow year, but turnips were allowed instead of the fallow, and in the lease of 1781 peas and beans, or clover, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… for winter sowing, and were presumably moved to the fallow field at Martinmas. Pit Mead and other common meadows … pasture. The tenants' sheep could, however, feed the fallow Farm Field from Lady Day to Michaelmas, a serious …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for the autumn sowing, one for the spring, and one for the fallow, which suggests a three-course rotation of crops. The … was set out as extra sheep pasture when the Down field was fallow. 95 A reference to the wheat field and the stubble … other two fields being sown with grass or turnips or left fallow. Another farmer in 1775 was to pay an extra £5 an acre …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… were entitled to feed only horses and cows on the fallow field and common fen. 24 About 1720, when 30 people … of sheep kept rose by 400, artificial grasses replacing fallow grazing in their diet. 85 From the early 19th century …
A History of the County of Essex
… barley, rye, clover, and trefoil, and grew turnips on the fallow. 40 One farm in 1860 used a four course rotation of (1) wheat (2) fallow with turnips or mangold-wurzel (3) barley, oats, new …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 16In 1791 High field was partly under wheat, Down field fallow, and Bottom Brook field under a break crop. 17There …