 | Agriculture - 1873 - 608 pages
...for lubtisteoce to the north of Ireland ; and that in these seasons of misery the poor people were obliged to subsist by bleeding their cattle and mixing the blood so obtained with such scanty oatmeal as they could procure. The markets were poor, the public credit was ill established,... | |
 | Prestwick - 1834 - 202 pages
...of improving their estates. Indeed, when a laird wished to raise money, he was obliged to sell his property, perhaps for 20 years' purchase, or accept...country must ever in an especial * From the rise of the present commerce of Glasgow and Greenock, that of the ports of Ayr and Irvine had probably declined.... | |
 | George Stewart (of Glasgow.) - Glasgow (Scotland) - 1881 - 310 pages
...unfavourable, the summer bad, or the harvest " late and stormy, a dearth or famine unavoidably ensued. In these "seasons of misery, the poor people have not unfrequently been "obliged to resort to such shifts as bleeding their cattle, that with " the blood so obtained, boiled with oatmeal... | |
 | William Robertson - Ayrshire (Scotland) - 1891 - 272 pages
...2d above, or below Is per peck.] In those seasons of misery, the poor people have not infrequently been obliged to subsist by bleeding their cattle, and mixing the blood so procured, with what oatmeal they could procure. (NoTE. — On reading this description, one would think... | |
 | William Robertson - Ayrshire (Scotland) - 1908 - 400 pages
...subsistence to the north of Ireland. In these seasons of misery the poor people " were not infrequently obliged to subsist by bleeding their cattle and mixing the blood so procured with what oatmeal they could procure." But, when things were at their worst, they began to... | |
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... the county of Ayr, and other provinces adjacent, to the lowest gradation of want ; obliging hundreds of families to fly for subsistence to the north of Ireland, where their descendants still remain. 