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Journal of the House of Lords
… Pepper, Cardamums, Rice, Paddy, (or Rice in the Husk,) Grain of all Descriptions, Arrow Root, Ginger, Cocoa Nuts, …
History Theses 1970-2014: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
… in industrializing South Africa: the Orange Free State grain belt in the early 20th century. Keegan, T.J. Ph.D., …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… I not be coy and of my beauties nice, Since this my goodly grain is held of greatest price ? No manchet can so well the … sorts. The common spring barley, containing two rows of grain in the ear, is sown in every case when the soil is not … if food for stock runs short or allowed to ripen into grain which is 'safe' for say 24 s. per quarter, seeing, too, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of wheat and every other description of Englishgrown grain, it is universally admitted that drilling is the best … an earlier date is now considered better, much of this grain being put in as early as February if the season is …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… lambs. 68 Wool prices generally did not rise as much as grain prices and only rarely rose more. Even if there had … Thus in the second half of the 18th century the price of grain doubled, whereas rents quintupled. 99 In this period, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in deep ploughing is said to have raised yields of grain by 8 bushels an acre. 298 There were also a number of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… years of poor or disastrous harvests and steeply falling grain prices, the paramount influence on the supply side was … its causes. In the first place the period of high total grain output but unremunerative prices, from 1874 to 1878, … cereal prices, or even stood to gain from falling and low grain prices in so far as they were already in the seventies …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Coccus ilicis. It was also called the kermes or SCARLET grain insect. This insect was found on the kermes oak, a …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… the Crown by reason of the war, there were found, besides grain, 11 plough horses, 2 draught horses, a two-year-old …