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… is a sandy Loam, well calculated for Cultivation by the Spade, and for the Production of Garden Vegetables, but … or Two Acres, did they cultivate that entirely with the Spade, or did they employ the Plough? Professedly they cultivate under the Spade, but, occasionally, I think they get their Masters to …
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… Overseer of the Parish, which he was to have dug by the Spade by those Persons who wanted Work; and the Farmer giving … This Land was given to the Overseer to have dug by the Spade, for which he paid Two-pence Halfpenny a Pole; that … Occupiers paid him 12 s. an Acre for the cultivating it by Spade Husbandry; he paid to the Poor who went to work …
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… a profitable Return can be made. Do you mean to say that Spade Husbandry, or any Means of that sort, ought to be … many Cases the Labourers might be profitably employed by Spade Husbandry; but I believe when that Experiment is tried, supposing the Spade Husbandry could be set on foot by any Introduction of …
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… any Means been taken in your Parish to employ Labourers by Spade Cultivation? There have not been any Attempts of that … of employing the Men out of Employment in the Parish by Spade Cultivation in the Parish itself? It would be … the Thinness of the Soil. If we were to attempt to use the Spade, we should ruin the Land. [253] You state that there is …
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… 37 From 25 to 30, not constantly, sometimes employed at Spade Labour by the Farmers. 10 s. Yes. Yes; single Men 1 s. …
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… would, and of course put a complete Stop to any thing of Spade Husbandry. However, last Week I called the Parish … towards fencing of the Land, and given every Man a new Spade. Is it in the Contemplation of the Parish to take any … with any Parish where Land has been cultivated by the Spade by the Poor for any considerable Time? The Duke of …
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… I went to see it, was, every Part of it, productive under Spade Husbandry; and by Attention in those poor Men in … and there is One Piece, a Furze Piece, not under the Spade, which is Eleven Acres, it is given up as impossible to … Work besides attending to this Land which they have under Spade Cultivation? I should suppose not, those having that …
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… to clear Five Pounds by a Quarter of an Acre of Land under Spade Culture. As far as we are able to ascertain, it seems … How do they cultivate this Land in your Parish? With the Spade. In what Manner do they cultivate it; what do they … of Half an Acre in the Parish of Byfield, cultivated by Spade Husbandry. Years. POTATOES. WHEAT. BARLEY. 1828 Number …
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… plough his Land; but be required to cultivate it solely by Spade Husbandry. 5. No Occupier who is at work for the …
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… paid for, Dawson, 266. - Poor, Condition of, improved by Spade Labour, Dawson, 263. - Poor Rates in, formerly and at … in Lincolnshire, and Disadvantages of this, Dawson, 264. - Spade Labour, Lands used for, how rented - pay Tithes, but no … Chapman, 425. 426. ( See Cottages with Gardens - Gardens - Spade Labour.) - to Poor, Demainbray, Wetherell, Pollen, …