General View of the Agriculture of the County of Hereford: Drawn Up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement |
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Page 84 - yellow, and the taste rich and somewhat astringent. Apples of a small size are always, if equal in quality, to be preferred to those of a larger, in order that the rind and kernel, which contain the flavour of the liquor, may bear the greatest proportion to the pulp, which affords the weakest and the most watery
Page 154 - other victuals In certain, it is accorded and assented, that the justices of the peace in every county, in two of their sessions to be holden betwixt the feast of Easter and St. Michael> shall make proclamation by their discretion, according to the dearth of victuals, how much every mason,
Page 109 - were in our hands, not in our heads; so we both, for three or four years lay levell to the whole country's censure for such engineers as their forefathers heard not of, nor they well able to endure without merryments. " In the running and casting of my trench-royal, though it were levelled from the
Page 108 - land thirty acres overworn with age, and heavily laden with moss, cowslips, and much other imperfect grass, betwixt my mill stream and the maine river, which (with two shillings cost) my grandfather and his grandsire, with the rest, might have drowned at their pleasures ; but from the beginning never
Page 34 - whatever, no degree of frugality, no possible exertion of his manual strength, could preserve him from the heart-rending sensation of seeing his children starve, or of forfeiting his independence, and being obliged to the parish for
Page 109 - double and treble-trenches, a traversing-trench with a point, and an everlasting-trench, with other troublesome trenches, which in a map I will more lively expresse. When the inhabitants of the country, wherein I inhabit, (namely the Golden Valley) saw I had begun some part of my worke, they summoned a consultation against me and my man John, the leveller, saying our
Page 81 - best way to plant an orchard is to turn the ground with a spade in February, and to set from February to May some kernels of the best and soundest apples and pears a finger deep and at a foot distance, and to leave the likeliest plants only in the natural place, removing the others
Page 24 - lands descend not to the eldest, youngest, or any one son only, but in equal divisions to all the sons together. But the privilege and the security of disposing of property by
Page 34 - four or five, which seems to be but just sufficient for one. Harder fare and harder labour he would submit to, for the sake of living with the woman he loves; but he must feel conscious,
Page 107 - In the month of March I happened to find a mole or wont's nest raised on the brim of a brook in my meade, like a great hillock ; and from it there issued a little streame of water, (drawn by the working of the mole) down a shelving ground, one pace broad, and some twenty in length. The running of this little