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. 1794 Excerpt: ...by other business of the farm, for above four weeks; when, to his astonishment, he discovered better than half a plant of spontaneous grafs where nothing but heath and ling had grown before.. Agreeably surprized by this unlooked-for circumstance, he suffered it to remain in the state it was; and the grass not only ...
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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. 1794 Excerpt: ...by other business of the farm, for above four weeks; when, to his astonishment, he discovered better than half a plant of spontaneous grafs where nothing but heath and ling had grown before.. Agreeably surprized by this unlooked-for circumstance, he suffered it to remain in the state it was; and the grass not only thickened very fast, and grew quite green; hut being the spontaneous produce of the earth, and not arising from feed that bad been sown, continued permanent.. The spontaneous production of this luxuriant grass he accounts for by the parings being burned all over the surface instead of in heaps, and never suffering it to burst into flames sufficient to exhale the pabulum existing on the soil....: . '. The land on which this experiment was tried is a black peat earth, the former produce of it heath and ling. Theexpence of paring and burning he calculates at 16/. an acre; and the present appearance of the land, he says, affords a reasonable expectation, of its being hereafter worth at least 16s. an acre, per annum. The idea which Mr. Gooke's experiment produced has been carried into practice on Ensield chace. Instead of burning the surface, the paring is placed in large-heaps, and permitted to remain till it is sufficiently rotted, so as--' to to be used by itself, or with lime, dung, etc. as a com po!t in amelioration of the ground. Where the staple is a deep loam or clay, the immediate injury done by the sire is not easily noticed, for the ashes, though robbed of their nutritious qualities accelerate the pulverization, and make the land work, which, on fresh ground, will for the most part insure a crop. New-broken up ground no doubt is highly impregnated with the pabulum of plants, and requires but the plough and tilth to call forth its strength. Th...
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Add this copy of General View of the Agriculture of the County of to cart. $202.33, very good condition, Sold by Burwood Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Wickham Market, SUFFOLK, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1794 by Printed By John Nichols.
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Very good. First Edition. Hardback. Small 4to. pp. 92. Engraved coloured map of Middlesex. 3 illustrations in the text. Recent half teal calf, marbled boards, ruled and lettered gilt on spine. Occasional contemporary comments and corrections in the text. Extra wide margins 'for remarks and additional observations. ' The county of Middlesex was the subject of three reports addressed to the Board of Agriculture within a few years of each other: Thomas Baird's appeared in 1793, Peter Foot's (land surveyor, Dean Street, Soho) in 1794 and John Middleton's in 1797. Foot focuses on the nature and variations of the soil and the cultivation of vegetables and fruit as well as plants grown for their dyes (as a substitute for madder). He discusses husbandry and the rotation of crops, giving examples undertaken in the different areas of Middlesex, and common meadows and common arable lands. He provides a detailed account of haymaking and explains how horses were not bred in the county, but bought at fairs. He notes the numbers of sheep (most on Hounslow Heath) and goes into Sir Joseph Banks' experiment with Spanish sheep and the importance of dairy farming and also covers farm buildings and agricultural instruments. A near fine copy. About fine.