Agricultural Surveys: Hertfordshire (1804) |
Common terms and phrases
acre Agriculture Albans Albury arable ashes average bailiff Barkway barley Beachwood beans Berkhamsted better breed Buntingford bushels bushels per acre BYDE Bygrave cake CASSMAJOR chalk CHAP Cheshunt clay clean clover common turnips corn course cows crop cultivated district Ditto drilled dung expense fallow farm farmers feeding field five flinty fold four horses four quarters give grass gravel Hadham half harrowed Hatfield hedge Hertford Hertfordshire HERTS Hitchin Hurral husbandry improvement inches JOHN SEBRIGHT King's Walden labour lambs loads loam London lucerne manure Marchioness of SALISBURY meadow mowing mown Munden North Mims oats oil-cake opinion oxen pared parish pease plant plough poor pounds practice produce profitable quantity rent Rickmersworth Royston sainfoin SECT SEDGWICK seed sells sheep shew soil sold South Downs sown spring straw Suffolk tares thinks tillage twice Watford week wethers wheat WHITTINGTON Wiltshires winter winter tares