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Old and New London
… anything. At another time I saw the dead carcase of a horse swinging high in the air, as it was about to be …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… summer fallowing. The harrows varied in weight from one-horse to four-horse carriage; they had rollers of wood and iron of equal …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of farmers are in favour of baulking, as the crops can be horse-hoed as soon as they are through, and the horse-hoeing can be continued to a later date; the thinning … the land of excellent and considerable quantities of farm-yard manure and reducing the stock-keeping capabilities of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of Corallian hills that runs through the Vale of White Horse to the Oxford Heights. 1 In the 16th and 17th centuries … open corn fields. The beasts and horses were either in the yard or the home closes, or tethered or attended by a … 104; Hoare, Mod. Wilts. Chalke Hund. 133. J. Tull, Horse-Hoeing Husbandry; W.R.O. Acc. 111 survs. the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… second change was connected with the reduced demand for horse corn after the coming of the railways. 79 Less … additions to the potash. Bones (16 bushels to the acre) or yard manure were sometimes added, although the difficulty of … loaders, hay turners, and side rakes joined the existing horse rake, hay tedder, and small collector. 222 The reduced …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… there were 83,475, in 1954 there were 217,950. The farm horse has, of course, become a rarity in that time. 8 Such … use of purchased manures, poor management of both horse and human labour, bad and insufficient farm buildings, … production was affected by the shrinking farm and urban horse demand in the inter-war years, nevertheless its decline …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… of 2s 6d (NARROW - ELL) to 5s (BROAD - ELL) and 3s 8d the YARD. OED earliest date of use: 1649 as an adjective denoting … LINING, SCARF, TIPPET, WHISK Found in units of ELL, PIECE, YARD Found imported from Holland Found rated by the LB, PIECE … An umbelliferous plant, Smynium olustratum, also called horse PARSLEY and black LOVAGE, formerly cultivated and eaten …
A Dictionary of London
… (Elmes, 1831). " Alderman Stairs" (O.S.). " Person's Yard " (Strype, ed. 1720). Name derived, as Elmes …