Proposals for Enriching the Principality of Wales: Humbly Submitted to the Consideration of His Countrymen, by Giraldus Cambrensisauthor; and sold, 1755 - 35 pages |
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... four Times before it is fown with Turneps , and clayed or marled after the first or third Ploughing , just as it fhall be moft convenient for the Farmer . Either Method may be chofen . But if the Land be clayed after the firft Ploughing ...
... four Times before it is fown with Turneps , and clayed or marled after the first or third Ploughing , just as it fhall be moft convenient for the Farmer . Either Method may be chofen . But if the Land be clayed after the firft Ploughing ...
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... four or five able Horses , will seldom or never fail to produce extraordinary Crops . And the Land , which before , perhaps , has not been worth Six - pence an Acre , by this Method , will be made worth ten or twelve . Shillings . WHEN ...
... four or five able Horses , will seldom or never fail to produce extraordinary Crops . And the Land , which before , perhaps , has not been worth Six - pence an Acre , by this Method , will be made worth ten or twelve . Shillings . WHEN ...
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... four Days afterwards , the fame Ground fhould be fown with Clover ,. about ten Pounds an Acre ; or , which fuits this Sort of Land of which I am speaking beft , being for the most Part of a light Na- ture , about feven or eight Pounds ...
... four Days afterwards , the fame Ground fhould be fown with Clover ,. about ten Pounds an Acre ; or , which fuits this Sort of Land of which I am speaking beft , being for the most Part of a light Na- ture , about feven or eight Pounds ...
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... four or five Pounds . Very great Advantages indeed ! And altho Claying or Marling be a confiderable Ex- pence , amounting to 25 or 30 Shillings an Acre ; yet that Charge is answered and repaid , even in the firft Crop ; but more ...
... four or five Pounds . Very great Advantages indeed ! And altho Claying or Marling be a confiderable Ex- pence , amounting to 25 or 30 Shillings an Acre ; yet that Charge is answered and repaid , even in the firft Crop ; but more ...
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... Feed , and ever remain better than what the old Land produced before . THESE four Crops of Peafe or Oats , Wheat , Turneps and Barley are all pro- duced 2 duced without Tath or Dung , the Ground greatly improved ( 16 )
... Feed , and ever remain better than what the old Land produced before . THESE four Crops of Peafe or Oats , Wheat , Turneps and Barley are all pro- duced 2 duced without Tath or Dung , the Ground greatly improved ( 16 )
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Page 3 - Your erring fathers left too long defpis'd. Leave not to ignorance and low-bred hinds, That nobleft fcience, which in ancient time The minds of fages and of kings employ'd, Solicitous to learn the ways of God, And read his works in agriculture's fchool.