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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… are oats and bear, with a small proportion of potatoes and turnips. The farming is in a very unimproved state; some … clay. The crops are grain of all kinds, with potatoes, turnips, and other green crops; the lands are chiefly … the amount, in value, of 3000 annually, and potatoes and turnips yield about 1500; the farms are of small extent, …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… There were 36 a. of wheat, 12 a. of barley, 4 a. of turnips or rape, and 1 a. of peas. 7 The common at Coombe (11 … 5 In 1922 arable produced wheat, barley, oats, beans, turnips, and mangolds 6 but in 1939 the parish was …
Journal of the House of Lords
… best Work done by the Men in Lincolnshire, that is, hoeing Turnips, was done by the Women and Children in …
Journal of the House of Lords
… For Men employed in thrashing, plashing Hedges, hoeing Turnips, working Hop Ground, Harvest Work, and mowing …
Journal of the House of Lords
… thing in Corn; it is the Sustentation which is yielded by Turnips and by artificial Grasses which constitutes the … to which we may add, as a Source of Profit, the preceding Turnips, and then the Seeds that are upon it; but I have …
Journal of the House of Lords
… or if they do not get Hay, they have an Equivalent in Turnips. There is a Cowhouse always annexed to the Cottages, … happen to be grown up; and as it is a District in which Turnips are more cultivated, and particularly cleaned and … to Forty Acres. Then they have extra Hands for hoeing Turnips, and so on. What is the ordinary Number of Persons …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Knowledge, excepting one, in which a Man had stolen some Turnips from a neighbouring Portion of Land; that was …
Journal of the House of Lords
… before? It was Meadow Land - Grass Land; it has Turnips upon it now. It has been since ploughed up? Yes. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… the chief crops are, grain of different kinds, potatoes, turnips, and beet-root. The parish is altogether … has been applied with advantage on light soils, where the turnips are eaten off by the sheep. The wood planted consists … but producing good crops of oats, bear, potatoes, and turnips. The farm-houses, with very few exceptions, are of an …