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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… quality. The crops are, wheat, barley, oats, potatoes, and turnips, with peas, beans, and other green crops; the system … numbers of sheep of different kinds are also fed here upon turnips, and shipped to London, by steamers from Leith and … The chief crops are, barley, oats, wheat, potatoes, and turnips, which, from the improved system of agriculture, and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of arable and grassland were much the same, with wheat, turnips, and grass leys being the main crops in the rotation …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… of land; the produce raised chiefly comprises oats, turnips, potatoes, barley, bear, and hay. Great improvements … chief crops are, wheat, oats, barley, beans, potatoes, and turnips; the system of agriculture is much improved, and the … lower portions is fertile, producing, not only grain, but turnips, with the various grasses, and excellent crops of rye …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… loam mixed with gravel, well adapted for the production of turnips, barley, and clover; the ground on the south is of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… c. 57 sheep, and a few pigs. 58 Clover, vetches, and turnips were all grown on the Acton Scott demesne by 1753, 59 … were also 45 tons of hay (£135). 85 Trefoil, clover, and turnips were fodder crops. 86 The ground was limed, 87 and …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… 326. The vicar is entitled to the tythe of wood, stock, turnips, after pasture, the tythe of Dartford saltmarsh, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… farmer and kitchen-gardener was often combined; thus peas, turnips, and coleworts were grown in succession on the same … or oats; (4) summer fallow. ( b) On the better soil. (1) turnips on summer fallows; (2) barley with broad clover; (3) … inclosed lands: (1) wheat; (2) barley and clover; (3) turnips. III.-Fulham:- (1) barley; (2) coleworts (off in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… with the cultivator, the soil is then pressed, and swedes, turnips or rape, and sometimes thousand-headed kale are sown … winter vetches or rye, followed by rape or mustard, then turnips. Again there are occasionally crops in rotation of … of sheep-feed. Only occasionally are some allowed to seed. Turnips and swedes are still largely grown in Oxfordshire; …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… as the custom of the manor of Burcombe that the sowing of turnips, fallowing, and raftering were not to begin before 5 … from his own hay-loft. Except in the Cotswold Country, turnips were not generally of the first importance to farming … In the Chalk Country the soils were mostly too thin for turnips, and after the water-meadows were floated there was …