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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… clay, producing good crops of wheat, barley, oats, and turnips; the surface is hilly, and picturesque, the higher …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… the chief crops are, oats, barley, wheat, potatoes, and turnips. The system of agriculture is improved, and the … soil is extremely favourable, oats, barley, potatoes, and turnips; a considerable number of sheep are reared, and fed principally on turnips. The rateable annual value of the parish is 7996. The …
A History of the County of Sussex
… hemp in 1665, seeds, including clover, in 1727 and later, turnips in the 1760s, buckwheat in 1776, and hops in 1570 and … more than half the arable at the same date raised oats, turnips, and swedes, evidently for feed. There was a dairy …
A History of the County of Sussex
… the ancient parish, 31 and in 1875, when wheat, oats, and turnips and swedes were the chief crops, only a sixth of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… By 1970 wheat predominated. Crops for sheep fodder-notably turnips, vetches, and mangolds-were replaced after 1945 by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… area, relatively high for Oxfordshire. 161 In 1826 turnips, sainfoin, wheat, oats, and barley were grown on one … the cultivated area, wheat 1518 per cent, and swedes and turnips 1113 per cent. Between 30 and 40 per cent of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and 66 pigs, and feed included swedes, mangolds, and turnips as well as oats, bran, beans, tail barley, and wheat. … crops remained wheat, barley, and oats, with some swedes, turnips, and mangolds. Cattle were still kept in relatively …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… and produces abundant crops of grain of all kinds, with turnips and other green crops. Considerable attention is paid …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… produced on 167 a. and there were 66 a. of oats, 43 a. of turnips or rape, and fewer than 10 a. each of barley, …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… as most of the forest land is by a succession of wheat, turnips, barley, & grass-seeds. The Chesterfield Navigation …