Agricultural Surveys: Wiltshire (1813)

acre advantage agriculture allowed arable land barley breed cattle chalk CHAP cheese Chippenham clover common consequence corn cows Cricklade dairy Devizes district ditto drains dung early enclosed enclosures ewes expense farms feed fields flinty loams flock fold frequently grass land hills horses improvement increase instances keep kind of land kingdom labourers lambs landholders landlord late loams manors manure meadows necessary North oats occupiers oxen parish particularly pasture perhaps Persons chiefly employed Pewsey Vale planted plough produce proper quantity ray-grass reason rent sand lands sand veins Scotch firs SECT Sedgehill seldom Semley severalty sheep sheep stock sheep-fold soils and situations South Wilts South Wiltshire South-east district sowing sown spring summer tenant tenantry timber tion tithes township trees trict turnips underwood usually vetches villages Warminster water-meadows wheat Wiltshire Downs Wiltshire farmers winter wood wool yard lands