View of the Agriculture of Middlesex: With Observations on the Means of Its Improvement, and Several Essays on Agriculture in General |
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acre advantage agriculture annually arable land average barley beans bushels carts cattle clay clayey clean clover consequently considerable corn cows crop cultivation ditto drains dung dunghills earth effect enclosed enclosure equal expense farm farmers feed feet five four frost grain grass grass-land green ground growing half harrowing hedges herbage horses improvement inches increase keep labour landlord lease less lime load loam London manner manure meadow method Middlesex miles mould mown nearly oats oxen paring and burning parish pasture pease persons plants plough poor potatoes present produce profit purpose quantity rain raised rendered rent rich ridges river river Lea river Thames roads roots season SECT seed sheep shillings soil sold sowing sown spring stack straw sufficient summer supposed surface Surrey tenant Thames tion tithes turnips usually vegetation water-meadow weeds weight wheat white clover whole winter tares