 | James Robertson, Board of Agriculture (Great Britain) - Agricultural systems - 1794 - 530 pages
...fo well fupplied in that particular. The farm-houfcs were mere hovels, moated with clay, having in open hearth or fire-place in the middle"; the dunghill at the door ; the cattle Itarving, and the people wretched. The few ditches which exifted were ill conftruclcd, and the hedges... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Great Britain - 1839 - 736 pages
...hardly a practicable road in the county ; the farm houses were mere hovels, moated with clay, having the open hearth, or fireplace, in the middle ; the dunghill...high, broad, serpentine ridges, interrupted with large balks, such as still disgrace the agriculture of some English counties. The soil was collected on the... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - Great Britain - 1839 - 760 pages
...hardly a practicable road in the county ; the farm houses were mere hovels, moated with clay, having the open hearth, or fireplace, in the middle ; the dunghill...high, broad, serpentine ridges, interrupted with large balks, such as still disgrace the agriculture of some English counties. The soil was collected on the... | |
 | Joseph Train - Isle of Man - 1845 - 408 pages
...1810, p. 40. The state of Ayrshire was much the same : — " The farm houses were mere hovels made with clay, having an open hearth or fire-place in the middle : the cattle starving and the people wretched — (this refers to about the year 1 750.) The rent was commonly... | |
 | sir William Fraser - 1859 - 488 pages
...top of a high ridge, whilst the furrow was drowned with water. ' The farm houses were mere hovels, having an open ' hearth or fire-place in the middle,...door, the cattle starving, and ' the people wretched.' 2 When the Earl commenced his improvements, his own estates were in much the same condition as those... | |
 | Charles Rogers - Scotland - 1884 - 436 pages
...Describing the state of Ayrshire husbandry in 1750, Colonel Fullarton remarks that " the farm-houses were hovels, moated with clay, having an open hearth or fire-place in the middle and a dunghill at the door." When William Burnes, crofter at Alloway, resolved in the autumn of 1757... | |
 | Charles Rogers - Scotland - 1884 - 440 pages
...Describing the state of Ayrshire husbandry in 1750, Colonel Fullarton remarks that " the farm-houses were hovels, moated with clay, having an open hearth or fire-place in the middle and a dunghill at the door." When William Burnes, crofter at Alloway, resolved in the autumn of 1757... | |
 | George Chalmers - Scotland - 1890 - 486 pages
...1750, the farm houses were mere hovels, having an open hearth or lire-place in the middle of the floor, the dunghill at the door, the cattle starving, and the people wretched. There were no fallows, no green crops, no artificial grass, no carts or waggons, no straw yards, and... | |
 | William Robertson - Ayrshire (Scotland) - 1891 - 272 pages
...whereas, at present, few parts of the kingdom are so well supplied in that particular. The farm.houses were mere hovels, moated with clay, having an open...at the door ; the cattle starving ; and the people wretehed. The few ditehes which existed were ill constructed, and the hedges worse preserved. The land... | |
 | John Galt - Humorous stories - 1896 - 314 pages
...century the state of agriculture in Ayrshire was very wretched. "Tho farm-houses were mere hovels, coated with clay, having an open hearth or fireplace in the middle ; the dunghills at the door ; the cattle starving and the people wretched. " That is the description of farm-steadings... | |
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The farm houses were mere hovels, moated with clay, having an open hearth or fire-place in the middle ; the dunghill at the door, the cattle starving, and the people wretched. The few ditches which existed were ill constructed, and the hedges worse preserved.... 
