General View of the Agriculture of Shropshire: With Observations |
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Abergavenny acres Barley Beaufort Board of Agriculture breed bushel Caldicot carriage cattle CHAP Chepstow clay Clover coals collieries considerable numbers coppices corn corn-rent county of Monmouth course of crops cows culm carried cultivation dairy Dingestow district ditto draining dung Ebbw Ebbw river embankments expense extent farm farmers feet following parishes Goldcliff ground Hereford Herefordshire hills hundred of Caldicot hundred of Wentloog improvement increase iron-works kingdom labour landlord Level lime limestone Llangattock Llanvihangel loam manure miles Mineral Basin Monmouthshire Canal Newport Oats occupiers oxen pasture Pembrokeshire Pendeford pit-coal planting plates plough Pontypool port potatoes pound produce profit Proprietors quantity Ragland rail-way or tram-road repair Risca river Usk river Wye road Rumney SECT Severn sheep Sirhowy soil sort stones strata sufficient tenant tillage timber tion tithes town tram-plates Tredegar Tredegar Park trees turnips Vale vallies veins waggons Wheat winter Works-Charcoal forge Works-Two blast furnaces
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Page 49 - Should this root ever become in any part of Europe, like rice in some rice countries, the common and favourite vegetable food of the people, so as to occupy the same proportion of the lands in tillage, which wheat and other sorts of grain for human food do at present, the same quantity of cultivated land would maintain a much greater number of people ; and the labourers being generally fed with potatoes, a greater surplus would remain after replacing all the stock, and maintaining all the labour...
Page v - Reports thus reprinted, as it is impossible to consider them yet in a perfect state ; and that it will thankfully acknowledge any additional information which may still be communicated : an invitation of which, it is hoped, many will avail themselves, as there is no circumstance from which any one can derive more real satisfaction, than that of contributing, by every possible means, to promote the improvement of his Country.
Page 50 - The chairmen, porters, and coal-heavers in London, and those unfortunate women who live by prostitution, the strongest men and the most beautiful women perhaps in the British dominions, are said to be, the greater part of them, from the lowest rank of people in Ireland, who are generally fed with this root. No food can afford a more decisive proof of its nourishing quality, or of its being peculiarly suitable to the health of the human constitution.
Page 50 - ... the porters and coal-heavers in London, and those unfortunate women who live by prostitution — the strongest men and the most beautiful women, perhaps, in the British dominions — are from the lowest rank of people in Ireland, and fed with the potato
Page 50 - ... in tillage which wheat and other sorts of grain for human food do at present, the same quantity of cultivated land would maintain a much greater number of people, and the labourers being generally fed with potatoes, a greater surplus would remain after replacing all the stock and maintaining all the labour employed in cultivation. A greater share of this surplus, too, would belong to the landlord. Population would increase, and rents would rise much beyond what they are at present.
Page 120 - ... from some place near, Pontnewynydd, into the River Usk, at or near the Town of Newport ; and a Collateral Cut or Canal from the same, at or near a Place called...
Page 120 - Canal from, or from some Place near Pontnewynydd, into the River Usk, at or near the Town of Newport, and a Collateral Cut or Canal from the same, at or near a place called Cryndau Farm, to or near to Crumlin Bridge, all in the County of Monmouth; and for making and maintaining Railways, or Stone Roads, from such Cuts or Canals, to several Iron Works and Mines, in the Counties of Monmouth and Brecknock":— Sect.
Page 105 - ... a maximum period of ten years from the date of Union on the minimum balance outstanding at any time during the six-month period preceding payment of interest.