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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… clouds. As the internal faces are capable of receiving a high degree of polish and it may be found in quite large …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… increased yields from new strains of wheat and high C.A.P. intervention prices had made winter wheat a … tourism. In 1988 the set-aside premiums offered were not high enough to induce the county's farmers to take land out …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and the fertility of Heston, which still kept up the high reputation which it possessed in the sixteenth century. … but were bought at fairs, and the standard required was a high one. The draught-horses in general, in possession of the … say 24 s. per quarter, seeing, too, that its straw is of high quality and in constant demand the rye area ought to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of farming general to the shire. Compare for instance the high stonebrash land extending from Witney to Burford, … forty and fifty years ago, when prices of corn were high and there was apparently no sign of labour becoming … bushels an acre, the figure given by Mr. Read, seems too high an average. The average price of oats in 1854 was 27 s. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and from time to time. 56 Moreover, there were in the high downs, as there had been in the Middle Ages, temporary … deprived these farmers of their by-employments. 104 High working costs, and first depressed prices and then …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… surplus, or that it was difficult to raise quick hedges in high, exposed situations, proved less of an impediment than … would be ready for 400 couples, the grass being mid-leg high, and would carry them 25 days until the end of April. … of both Britton and Little were probably somewhat high, for certainly sheep increased after the 1840's, and, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… were scarcely justified in making the large outlay which high farming requiredand that they ought to have better … Wiltshire appear, by the seventies, to have evolved a high-cost farming system technically excellent no doubt, but … weak, because total estate expenses absorbed too high a proportion of gross income. To some extent this may …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… [Diaries (Schopenhauer)] and at times ale was a drink of high quality. It was, for instance, described as 'being as …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and contains a population of 17,051. In the town is a high square brick tower with a house attached, called the … is situated in a pleasant vale, rather below the level of high-water mark, having the river Alde on the north, and on …
Survey of London
… seems huge in scale (Plate 111, fig. 70). Three storeys high above the semi-basement, and seven windows wide, it is a …