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A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… The green crops commonly cultivated are peas, beans, and turnips. The kind of pea usually grown is a small, inferior, … grown together; and buck-wheat is sometimes cultivated. Turnips are not generally grown by the ordinary class of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… have found it', whereas Eaton had introduced barley and turnips, milked 20 cows, bred horses, and had so many cattle … most of the parish a four-course rotation was followed and turnips were grown where suitable, 200300 a. of them in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… small depth below the surface. Wheat, barley, oats, peas, turnips, and potatoes form part of the produce, but the crops …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… by 1801 there were only 30 a., of which 9 a. were under turnips and 6a. under oats. 62 In 1928 all but about 100 a. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Marsh. Buckwheat is occasionally grown; potatoes commonly. Turnips are sometimes grown, but they suffer greatly from …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… &c., peculiarly suited for the culture of barley, peas, turnips, &c.; as have also the valleys of the other parts of … in the market, on account of their superior flavour. Turnips are frequently cultivated on the soils best adapted …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… crops are, barley, oats, a little wheat, potatoes, and turnips; the rotation system of husbandry is practised, and … and the crops are, grain of all kinds, potatoes, and turnips. Some attention is paid to the rearing of live stock; … chief crops are, wheat, barley, oats, peas, potatoes, and turnips, and the rotation system of husbandry is generally …
A History of the County of Oxford
… also grown, and garden crops included carrots, parsnips, turnips, cabbages, and onions. 66 Although the parish was … per cent) were the chief crops on the arable; the swedes, turnips, and mangolds were presumably grown as fodder. 83 …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… clay. The main crops were wheat, beans, and potatoes, but turnips, barley, peas, clover, and flax were also grown. … a. of wheat, 77 a. of potatoes, 70 a. of barley, 29 a. of turnips or rape, 24 a. of peas, 17 a. of oats, and 10 a. of … parish produced wheat, barley, oats, beans, hay, potatoes, turnips, and mangolds but corn did badly in wet seasons. 12 …