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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… to provide elementary education. The main interests were agricultural, but citizens were agog with energy. The …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… yet a generation. The abnormally high prices commanded by agricultural producers during the war gave good profits even …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Auchingray and Brownieside are considerable plantations. Agricultural improvement in this quarter has been much … it. The rent of land averages thirteen shillings per acre; agricultural improvements have been for a considerable time … and October, for cattle; and in March, when the East Fife Agricultural Society hold their meeting in the town, there is …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… frequently in the same patch. Clover was also important in agricultural improvement. It was one of the so-called 'new …
A History of the County of Oxford
… hedges, and closes, for which underwood was allowed. 70 Agricultural buildings in the 1440s included a sheephouse, … per cent of householders in 1861) were by then landless agricultural labourers. 112 Farming remained mixed, with an … were occupied by a firm selling tractors and other farm machinery, established there before 1977 when it employed 29 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to 602 by 1871, when there were 145 houses. During the agricultural depression of the 1870s and 1880s it fell … societies. 149 James Clark (d. 1860) left stock to benefit agricultural labourers in the parish, producing 2 17 s. a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… stone-built chapel with a walled garden to its north. Agricultural buildings included a sheephouse and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… at a cost of 118. 133 Membership, comprising chiefly agricultural labourers in the 1840s, 134 rose from 22 in 1852 …