This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1794 Excerpt: ...courses of husbandry, although the best management shall afterwards be adopted and pursued. Ill effects of die like nature attend this practice in every place; but where the foil is good, they are not so immediate and striking. The fame intention towards a regular system of husbandry, may be observed, where the common ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1794 Excerpt: ...courses of husbandry, although the best management shall afterwards be adopted and pursued. Ill effects of die like nature attend this practice in every place; but where the foil is good, they are not so immediate and striking. The fame intention towards a regular system of husbandry, may be observed, where the common sields are divided into sour parts or seasons, viz. 1st. year fallow sfallow "j Tfallow 2 wheat J barley barley r. or, ' or, 3 3 beans or peas s I beans or peas r clover 4 barley J (.wheat J (.wheat Wherever oats are substituted for beans or peas, the original intended system is destroyed, and the land is exhausted, and made poor and foul. 4 An An original design towards systematic farming, though more barbarous than either of the foregoing, may be discovered in those common sields, which are divided into equal parts: that is to fay, one sield being annually in an-unproductive state, as before described, in a former part of this publication: but briefly as follows; a moiety of this unproductive sield is in a state of fallow, being ploughed three or four times, as preparatory for wheat and barley, in equal parts: the other part of this sield lies mixed with the lands in fallow, producing thistles and all other weeds, which are seldom hoed or mowed, and shed their seeds over the whole. The second sield, or a moiety of the whole of the arable land, produces wheat, barley, oats, and beans, or peas in equal parts, in alternate succession. ist. year wheat 5th year barley 2 thistles 6 thistles 3 beans or peas 7 oats 4 fallow 8 fallow And then it comes again in rotine to be sowed with wheat and fallow: hence it appears, that the lands come round according to system, to be sowed with the fame kind, or sort of grain, every 8th year; and this system ...
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