An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 many parts from ten to fifteen yards in width, more resemblin
An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 many parts from ten to fifteen yards in width, more resembling strips of copse wood than fences, as they contained hazel, dogwood, black and white thorns, wild roses, brambles, and a variety of native shrubs. The lines of these fences were so ill calculated for carrying ofF the surface-water, that in one half of the fields there were open gutters for the discharge of the water collected in the hedge-row ditches. 4jS0. In the centre of one field (2,')\ for example, above ?n acre was rendered waste by the water from other fields (19, 20, and 2Il, which water, it is curious to remark, might, if led over the same acre agree- ably to the principles of irrigation, have produced annually at least two loads and a half of good hay, in place of annually rendering the produce of this acre unmarketable. The water of some fields (as 16, 18, and prirt of 19,) fan in a diagonal direction through another (15), two acres of which might have been irri- gated bv it to advantage. 4581. 'In the farm, when altered {fig. 714 1, the fields are more uniform in shape and size ; their sides are parallel, and better adapted for ploughing the lands in straight ridges. All the surface-water is ,^?^?^^a35naj^:s«'^ carried ofTby the open fence drains. Access is had to every field by the shortest possible road from the farmery. Only two-thirds of the number of gates formerly required are requisite. Fifty acres are ren- dered useful which were formerly lost, or per
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