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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... fown either with Turneps at Midfummer , or with Wheat or Rye at Mi- chaelmas . It should be ploughed and well harrowed four Times before it is fown with Turneps , and clayed or marled after the first or third Ploughing , just as it ...
... fown either with Turneps at Midfummer , or with Wheat or Rye at Mi- chaelmas . It should be ploughed and well harrowed four Times before it is fown with Turneps , and clayed or marled after the first or third Ploughing , just as it ...
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... thus ordered , may be fown with the greatest Affurance of Success . Ten or Twelve B2 Combs * A Comb is equal to 4 Bufhels , or what goes in Wales by the Name of Tel - Combs an Acre have been produced by this Manner ( 11 )
... thus ordered , may be fown with the greatest Affurance of Success . Ten or Twelve B2 Combs * A Comb is equal to 4 Bufhels , or what goes in Wales by the Name of Tel - Combs an Acre have been produced by this Manner ( 11 )
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... fown and turned in with the Plough . Three or 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 ...
... fown and turned in with the Plough . Three or 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 ...
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... fown after Clover , and it will commonly produce Crops of equal Goodness to those upon Ground thoroughly Summer- tilled . The Clover - land fhould be covered with Dung , and that turned in with the Plough , the Wheat fown above and ...
... fown after Clover , and it will commonly produce Crops of equal Goodness to those upon Ground thoroughly Summer- tilled . The Clover - land fhould be covered with Dung , and that turned in with the Plough , the Wheat fown above and ...
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... fown . The Land , defigned for Turneps at that Time , being ploughed twice or thrice , after the Clay is laid on , requires but one Earth , and then the Turnep - feed is immediately fown . If these Turneps are houghed once ar twice over ...
... fown . The Land , defigned for Turneps at that Time , being ploughed twice or thrice , after the Clay is laid on , requires but one Earth , and then the Turnep - feed is immediately fown . If these Turneps are houghed once ar twice over ...
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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.