 | Hermann Levy - Agriculture - 1911 - 272 pages
...Strickland, A General View of the Agriculture of the East Riding of Yorkshire, York, 1812, p. 105 :—" On the Wolds, a country peculiarly adapted to sheep,...at least two-thirds of the land under the plough." And p. 106 :—"Unfortunately those beautiful sheep-walks and pastures, which the eatage of so many... | |
 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - Agriculture - 1848 - 658 pages
...country peculiarly adapted to sheep, but from various circumstances unfavourable to corn, particularly wheat, a stranger would be surprised to see at this...so. They were usually divided pretty equally into a tillage field, a common pasture, a sheep-walk (which never came under the plough), and an outfield,... | |
 | Hermann Levy - Agriculture - 1966 - 288 pages
...Strickland, A General View of the Agriculture of the East Riding of Yorhshire, York, 1812, p. 105 :— " On the Wolds, a country peculiarly adapted to sheep,...at least two-thirds of the land under the plough." And p. 106 : — " Unfortunately those beautiful sheep-walks and pastures, which the eatage of so many... | |
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... tell. War-prices had done their utmost; but what Liebig denominates the day of rational culture had not yet arrived. On the subject of arable land Mr. Strickland says, p. 105 — " On the wolds, and country peculiarly adapted to sheep, but from various... 