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Journal of the House of Lords
… what Manner have they cultivated the Land this Year? With Spade Husbandry. What Crops have they put on? Principally …
Journal of the House of Lords
… of the House. How do they cultivate that Land? By the Spade; it had been once ploughed. Do they pay any Rent for … be beneficial to hire that Land, and cultivate it with the Spade? It is a very poor Country; it is an Iron Sand. I am …
Journal of the House of Lords
… in some Instances in preparing Land for Cultivation by the Spade, or in bringing Stone or other Materials which will not … Parishes within that District. You have stated that the Spade had been resorted to in some Cases in preparing Land … profitable; will you inform the Committee in what Way the Spade has been used, - what sort of Cultivation has been …
Journal of the House of Lords
… 358 Decrease 771 Have you turned your Attention at all to Spade Husbandry? [323] I did, when Nottingham was distressed; … per Acre; we will say 2.: but when we talk of generalizing Spade Husbandry as a Source of regular profitable Employment, … Concerns without a certain Number of Horses; therefore Spade Husbandry cannot be extensively introduced as a …
Journal of the House of Lords
… of the Parish. Has there been any Attempt to introduce Spade Cultivation in your Parish? I have given a Sum to the Overseer for Four Acres, which he is to get dug by the Spade. I give him the same Price that I could have it … an Acre, which is what they pay for having it dug with the Spade. What Depth does he dig it? The same as the Plough it …
Journal of the House of Lords
… produces nothing, but put him upon that Land, place a Spade and a Bushel of Seed by his Side, and in a certain Time … many Years carried on Experiments in planting of Wheat by Spade Husbandary; he found in all Cases the Production to be … Owen's Assertions of the immense Produce to be obtained by Spade Cultivation? That is a Question of practical …
Journal of the House of Lords
… How were those Twenty Acres of Land cultivated? Partly by Spade, and partly by the Plough. Were they cultivated at a … to part with good Men. You have tried the Experiment of Spade Husbandry; from that Experiment do you think it likely …
Journal of the House of Lords
… prepared an Account of the Produce derived by the Spade Husbandry in your Parish? I have prepared a Return of … An Account of the Produce derived by Poor Men from Spade Husbandry in the Parish of Broad Somerford, in the …
Journal of the House of Lords
… conceive that a larger Produce would be procured by the Spade than by the Plough? I should suppose a larger Produce … but at a much greater Expence. If they dig an Acre with a Spade, what would the Cost of that be in your Neighbourhood? … an Account of very large Produce that might be obtained by Spade Husbandry; and you stated, that you had for several …
Journal of the House of Lords
… The first that I would venture to mention would be Spade Farms; but I beg leave to say, that these, as far as I … should be let Five or Six Acres each, to be cultivated by Spade Husbandry; that there should be no Subdivision of this, … between the Two. Have you any Experience in the Result of Spade Cultivation? [191] I have not myself, but I have spoken …