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A History of the County of Essex
… system of (1) fallow or summer tilled, part sown with turnips or coleseed (oilseed rape), (2) barley or oats laid … beans on 33 a.; small quantit- ies of buckwheat, potatoes, turnips and swedes, kohl rabi, rape, and rye were also grown. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… wheat, barley, and potatoes; oilseed rape, fodder crops, turnips and swedes for human consumption, and maize were also …
A History of the County of Somerset
… wheat and barley but also oats, potatoes, peas, beans, turnips, and rape. Crops were said to be very productive. 68 In about 1805 the arable was said to be suitable for turnips and barley and the grass to be extraordinarily good. … of maize, potatoes, horticultural crops, fodder beans, turnips, swedes, savoys, and kohlrabi, and oilseed rape. …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… a five-course rotation of grassseeds for mowing, wheat, turnips, barley and oats, and grass-seeds for grazing by …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… alternate cereal cultivation with periods of fallow and of turnips and clover. 41 In 1801 957 a. of arable were recorded … mainly wheat and barley with smaller acreages of oats, turnips, peas, beans, vetches, and potatoes. 42 In the late …
A History of the County of Stafford
… freeholders, the chief crops were wheat, barley, oats, and turnips. 1 The farm land is situated to the west and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 31 Cheveley manor had foldcourse for 800 in 1663. 32 Turnips were being grown as fodder by 1724. 33 The … when the main crops were wheat, barley, and clover, with turnips and beans sown on most of the fallow field. The wheat …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… oats, and another 400 a. of arable was, save for 41 a. of turnips, under tares and grass seeds. 50 About 1830 there …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 1850 for having over ten years improved the production of turnips and other green crops by using a drill and a horse …