General View of the Agriculture of Wiltshire |
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acre advantage agriculture allowed arable land barley better breed cattle chalk CHAP cheese chiefly clover common consequence corn cows Cricklade custom dairy Devizes district ditto drains dung early enclosed enclosures expense farmers feed fields flints flinty loams flock fold frequently Gloucestershire grass land hills horses improvement instances keep kind of land kind of sheep kingdom labourers laid landlord late loams manors manure meadows mode of husbandry Monkton Deverill necessary North oats object occupiers oxen parish particularly pasture perhaps Pewsey Vale planted plough present produce proper purpose quantity ray-grass reason rent sand land sand veins SECT Sedgehill seldom Semley severalty sheep stock sheep-fold soils and situations South Wilts South Wiltshire South-east South-east district sowing sown spring summer tenant tenantry timber tion tithes trees trict turnips underwood usually villages water-meadows wheat Wiltshire Downs winter wood wool yard lands