 | Agriculture - 1840 - 550 pages
...as a valuable addition to tbeir fields. It is thus spoken of by Columella: — " If, nevertheless, you are provided with no kind of dung, it will be...great advantage to it to do, what I remember Marcus Coluinellu, my uncle, a most learned and diligent husbandman, was frequently wont to do, viz., to throw... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - Agriculture - 1840 - 84 pages
...valuable addition to the soil of their fields. It is thus spoken of by Columella : — " If, nevertheless, you are provided with no kind of dung, it will be...do, what I remember. Marcus Columella, my uncle, a most learned and diligent husbandman, was frequently wont to do; viz. to throw chalk or marl upon such... | |
 | Agriculture - 1840 - 532 pages
...were reading a description of the modern Essex farmers' mode of culture. He says, "If, nevertheless, you are provided with no kind of dung, it will be of great advantage to the land to do what I remember Marcus Columella, my uncle, a most learned and diligent husbandman,... | |
 | joseph rogerson - 1840 - 500 pages
...cultivators, as a raluable addition to their fields. It is thus spoken of by Columella:— " If, nevertheless, you are provided with no kind of dung, it will be...great advantage to it to do, what I remember Marcus Coluinelhi, my uncle, a most learned and diligent husbandman, was frequently wont to do, viz., to throw... | |
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Coluinelhi, my uncle, a most learned and diligent husbandman, was frequently wont to do, viz., to throw chalk or marl upon such places as abound in gravel, and to lay gravel upon such as are chalky, and too dense and stiff; and thus he not only raised... 