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A History of the County of Oxford
… Oxford Down ewes which received 'extraordinary attention', sainfoin being grown specially for them. 135 Similar farming …
A History of the County of Oxford
… suited in the 18th and 19th century to turnips and sainfoin as well as wheat and barley. 14 The church stands on …
A History of the County of Oxford
… pasture. 42 Wheat, oats, barley, beans, peas, clover, and sainfoin were grown, and at least one farmer kept cows and … or pulse in 1604 and with wheat the following year. 76 Sainfoin was grown by 1721. 77 On the larger farms sheep and … farmer in 1817 had 120 ewes and lambs, fields planted with sainfoin and clover, and ricks of barley, oats, and wheat. 90 …
A History of the County of Somerset
… in North Brewham in 1813 grew wheat, oats, barley, and sainfoin as well as clover. 64 South Brewham manor was mostly …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 17 in 1558. 124 Many inhabitants also kept bees. 125 A sainfoin ground was first mentioned in 1711; 126 it was … ground in Astrop recorded in 1776 and 1824. 127 A former sainfoin ground of 26 a., south-east of the former grove near … In 1855 crops grown on Grove farm had been barley, wheat, sainfoin, turnips, and vetches. 180 In 1914 over 70 per cent …
Broadwell Parish: Holwell
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… thereafter it was intended to sow most of the land with 'sainfoin, great clover, hop clover, ray grass, lucerne, or … Arable productivity was increased by planting turnips and sainfoin (which was pared and burnt to produce ash), and by … dirt. Horses and oxen were fed on a mixture of vetch and sainfoin to produce larger quantities of dung, and rather …
Broadwell Parish: Kelmscott
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… of turnips, beans, wheat, and oats or vetches, with some sainfoin; on former common pasture he burnt off the grass, … corn, and 10 per cent under barley, with 17 per cent under sainfoin, and 12 per cent under oats. Peas, turnips, swedes, … similar agriculture, growing wheat, oats, barley, sainfoin, and fodder crops, maintaining a herd of 73 dairy …
Broadwell, Langford and Kelmscott: Cotswolds to Thames
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… which it brought, asserting that were it 'not for sainfoin, paring and burning, and turnips, the Cotswold …
Broughton Poggs Parish
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… was a standard five-course rotation (or six including sainfoin) of (1) turnips, (2) barley, (3) seeds, (4) wheat, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… been improved in the 1670s with soap ashes, clover, and sainfoin, began the 1680s by supporting a dairy herd of over …