This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...for food that they eat up every remaining dead thistle, and are said to devour the hair off the manes and tails of each other and also the dung of geese." A second Reporter1 (1799), Arthur Young, speaks of " whole acres " in Wildmore Fen as " covered with thistles and nettles four feet high and more. There are ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...for food that they eat up every remaining dead thistle, and are said to devour the hair off the manes and tails of each other and also the dung of geese." A second Reporter1 (1799), Arthur Young, speaks of " whole acres " in Wildmore Fen as " covered with thistles and nettles four feet high and more. There are men that have vast numbers of geese, even to 1000 and more.... In 1793 it was estimated that 40,000 sheep, or one per acre, rotted on the three fens (i.e. on East and West and Wildmore Fens). So wild a country nurses up a race of people as wild as the fen; and thus the morals and eternal welfare of numbers are hazarded and ruined for want of an inclosure.... In discourse at Louth upon the characters of the poor, observations were made upon the consequences of great commons in nursing up a mischievous race of people; and instanced that, on the very day we were talking, a gang of villains were brought to Louth gaol from Coningsby, who had committed numberless outrages upon cattle and corn; laming, killing, cutting off tails, and wounding a variety of cattle, hogs, and sheep; and that many of them were commoners on the immense fens of East, West, and Wildmore." These descriptions apply to commons under the best regulations. Deeping Fens may be taken as examples of the ordinary management of Lincolnshire commons in the fen districts. " They stand," thinks the Reporter of 1794,2 " very much in need of inclosing and draining, as the cattle and sheep depastured thereon are very unhealthy. The occupiers frequently, in one season, lose four fifths of their stock. These commons are without stint, and almost every cottage within the manors has a common right belonging to it. Every kind of depredation is made upon this land in cutting up the best of...
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