. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. of several persons engaged in mowing, reaping, threshing, and winnowing ; in all whichoperations there appears to be little singular or different from modern practice. (StruttsComplete View of the Manners, Customs, $-c, of England, vol. i. plates II, 12.) 208. Agriculture in Scotland seems to have been in a very imperfect state towards theend of thi

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. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. of several persons engaged in mowing, reaping, threshing, and winnowing ; in all whichoperations there appears to be little singular or different from modern practice. (StruttsComplete View of the Manners, Customs, $-c, of England, vol. i. plates II, 12.) 208. Agriculture in Scotland seems to have been in a very imperfect state towards theend of this period. For in a parliament held at, Scone, by King Alexander II., A. I). 27 . ^wlk I 21-1, it was enacted, that such farmers as had four oxen or cows, or upwards, shouldlabour theii land., bj tilling them with a plough, and should begin to till fifteen days. Book 1. AGRICULTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES. £9

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