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A History of the County of Oxford
… Twelve Acre the tenant was encouraged to use clovers and sainfoin, and forbidden to sow hemp, flax, or woad; the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… grown in the parish in the 17th century, 20 and clover and sainfoin were mentioned in 1777. 21 Sheep remained important, …
A History of the County of Essex
… wheat, beans, peas, barley, mangolds, straw crop, clover, sainfoin, cabbages, oats, sugar beet, and various root crops, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… a., including 299 a. of arable and 19 a. of water meadows; sainfoin was grown on 30 a. of the Inner down. The six …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Grasses are, white and red clover, trefoil, rye-grass, and sainfoin, with some lucern. Some of the land bordering on the … substratum of limestone, produces excellent crops of sainfoin, the cultivation of which has greatly enhanced its … Even some of the driest gravels produce tolerable crops of sainfoin, but it soon becomes choked with natural grasses. …
A History of the County of Northampton
… trefoil and hayseed, apart from 2 a. at the top end where sainfoin would be tried as an experiment. The dryer part of … the stronger part of the field which was to be sown with sainfoin at Michaelmas. Bancroft Field was to be sown … his tenancy and to continue an adjoining portion in sainfoin; he was allowed to plough the rest of his holding, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the open fields, later sometimes in tofts. 25 Before 1717 sainfoin had been introduced on closes of Temple manor. 26 A …
A History of the County of Oxford
… cow. 111 Crops on the smaller Burycroft farm included sainfoin and turnips, 112 and in 1881 University farm had 60 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Mill field, and one in Winmore or Hencroft field were 'sainfoin land'. 91 Hanborough men claimed common rights in … turnips each year. 41 An inclosed ground was planted with sainfoin in 1780, and in 1782 a farmer's effects included …
Henley: Outlying Farms and Agriculture
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… and wheat was supplemented by a course of oats, with sainfoin sometimes substituted for clover. 12 Tenants of the …