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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… a fine reddish-brown loam producing all kinds of grain, potatoes, &c., of good quality; beans are grown upon the … nature, and produces good crops of corn, hay, turnips, and potatoes. Limestone of very excellent quality is found, … ever seen; but there is no part of North Wales where potatoes are cultivated so well and so extensively as in this …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… chief crops are oats and bear, with a small proportion of potatoes and turnips. The farming is in a very unimproved … of deep clay. The crops are grain of all kinds, with potatoes, turnips, and other green crops; the lands are … The chief crops are oats and barley, with some wheat, and potatoes, of which large quantities are sent to the ports on …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… Close, and Marlpits produced wheat, beans, oats, and potatoes in rotation. Potatoes were the dominant crop and peas were grown on 3 a. … a. of arable was recorded in 1801 of which 102 a. produced potatoes. There were 36 a. of wheat, 12 a. of barley, 4 a. of …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… they will afford are now scarce as saffron, flax, potatoes, rape seed, clover grass, licoras, woad etc., which …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Spade Husbandry. What Crops have they put on? Principally Potatoes. What has been the Produce? From 1,200 to 1,600 … and proper manuring, it will do. What is the Price of Potatoes in your Neighbourhood? They vary from 6 d. to 4 d. a … Some Part of it, I imagine, had been planted with Potatoes; I have seen it with Barley upon it; it has always …
Journal of the House of Lords
… a great Benefit in the Result. It was chiefly planted with Potatoes; and that with good Husbandry, I am told, produces …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Bread and Cheese; Dinner, on Sunday and Thursday, Beef and Potatoes; on Monday and Friday, Broth and Bread or Milk and Bread; on Tuesday, Pease Soup, with Beef Broth and Potatoes; on Wednesday, Rice Milk; on Saturday, Hasty Pudding … have no Fallow there; they crop the Land alternately with Potatoes and Wheat, or with Flax and Wheat; in fact it …
Journal of the House of Lords
… is principally consumed by their Families; it consists of Potatoes and Vegetables. Have you it in your Power to make a … to give them a little. At present they grow chiefly Potatoes? Potatoes and Vegetables. Are those that have the Rood of Land …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Calculations, which I believe to be correct, purchasing Potatoes at 1 s. 4 d. while they are producing them by the Spade Husbandry at 11 s. 9 d. Potatoes being there grown at 11 s. 9 d. the Bushel, namely, 2,102 Bushels for 1,194. though Potatoes in large Quantities were purchased at 1 s. 9 d. With …