General View of the Agriculture of the County of Kent: With Observations on the Means of Its Improvement |
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autumn barley beans Board of Agriculture breed burnt bushels bushels per acre cart-loads cattle chalk CHAP charlock chiefly clean clover crop of turnips cultivated district ditto drained dried dung early East Kent eight expense farmers farms fattening feet field five folded four furrows gavelkind grain grass grass-land gravel half hills hops horses hundred husbandry improvement inches deep Isle of Thanet Kentish kind labour Lenham loam Maidstone manure meadow mown oats oxen paring and burning parish pease plants plough poor land potatoes pounds produce quantity quarters per acre ragstone Ramsgate rich Romney Marsh rye-grass sainfoin sand season SECT seed seven sheep Sir CHARLES MIDDLETON soil sometimes sort sowing sown with barley spring stiff clay straw summer summer-fallow surface thrashed tilth tithe turf ashes turnips twenty vegetables Weald Weald of Kent weeds wheat whole winter wood
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Page 61 - ... the cattle and sheep feeding upon them, are of course in a half-starved state. The total destruction of all commonable rights, by a general act of parliament for...
Page 52 - The share is of hammered iron, weighs about 32 lb., is twenty inches long, and from four and a half to seven inches wide at the point. The upper end of the beam rests on a carriage with two wheels three feet two inches high : on the axletree is a gallows, on which is a sliding bolster to let it up and down. Through the centre of the axle is a clasp-iron, to which is fixed a strong chain called a tow. This...
Page v - THE desire that has been generally expressed, to have the AGRICULTURAL SURVEYS of the KINGDOM reprinted, with the additional Communications which have been received since the ORIGINAL REPORTS were circulated, has induced the BOARD OF AGRICULTURE to come to a resolution to reprint such as appear on the whole fit for publication.
Page 6 - Shepey is separated from the rest of the county by an arm of the sea, called the Swale, navigable for ships of 200 tons burthen. It is said to have derived its name from the number of sheep that were continually feeding on it. It is about eleven miles in length, and eight in its greatest breadth.
Page 66 - It has a pair of wheels, fully as large as the fore wheels of a moorland waggon ; and behind them is dragged a long thick log of wood, which slides upon the ground, as the hob or shoe...
Page v - AGRICULTURE to come to a resolution to reprint such as appear on the whole fit for publication. It is proper at the same time to add, that the Board does not consider itself responsible for every statement contained in the Reports thus reprinted, and that it will thankfully acknowledge any additional information which may still be communicated.
Page ix - ... connected with Agriculture. Thus every individual in the kingdom may have, 1. An account of the husbandry of his own particular county ; or, 2. A general view of the agricultural state of the kingdom at large, according to the counties, or districts, into which it is divided; or, 3. An arranged system of information on agricultural subjects, whether accumulated by the Board since its establishment, or previously known : And thus information respecting the state of the kingdom, and agricultural...
Page 15 - The principal soils arc, 1st, chalk; 2d, loam; 3d, strong cledge; 4th, hazel mould; 5th, stiff clay. Besides these, there are some small tracts of flints, gravel, and sand. The chalk-soils are of various depths; from three to six or seven inches of loose chalky mould, on a rock chalk bottom, and are mostly found on the tops and sides of the ridges of this district. At some places there is a little mixture of small flints, and at others, of black light mould, provincially called black hover. This...
Page vii - Perhaps the following is the most natural order for carrying on such important investigations ; namely, to ascertain, 1. The riches to be obtained from the surface of the national territory. 2. The mineral or subterraneous treasures of which the country is possessed. 3. The wealth to be derived from its streams, rivers, canals, inland navigations, coasts, and fisheries : And, 4. The means of promoting the improvement of the people, in regard to their health, industry, and morals...
Page xiii - XIV. eager to have his kingdom known, and possessed of boundless power to effect it, failed so- much in the attempt, that of all the provinces in. his kingdom, only one was so described as to secure the approbation of posterity *, it will not be thought strange that a Board, possessed » See VOLTAIRE'S Age of Louts XIV.