. 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. Agriculture. licly burnt, and thems Ives severely fined and impTi<;oned. 1 was said, were paid to the amount of thirt\-
. 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. Agriculture. licly burnt, and thems Ives severely fined and impTi<;oned. 1 was said, were paid to the amount of thirt\-thousand pounds, fhis was enouKh to put a stop to the cultiva- 1009. tion of tobacco; liut, perhaps rather imfortunatelv, it has likewise put a stop to the cultivation of that limited quantity, half a rod, which the law allows to be planted for the purposes of plijsic and chirurgery, or ; insects. Mitsiartl grown in considerable quantities in the neighbour- hood of York, and tields of it may be met with in other parts of the Riding- It is prepared for use in the city of Vork, where there arc mills and machinery for the purpose ; and it is afterwards sold uniier the name of Durham mustard; sown either on lanil pnred and burned, or prepared and manured as for turnips. Sec<i, one to two pecks per acre broadcast, in the early pan of iUav. No culture whilst growing, except hand- weedmu, 'f necessary. .Shorn with the sickle in September, .ind generally stackid in the HeM, and threshed out upon a cloth, at the convenience of the farmer. Two quarters per acre is thought a good crop. TeasA p-own on stront; soils; seed, two pecks a little before May-da., ; surface duj; or forked over in .fune, October, and l-ady-day ; renpe<l in August; 10 pecks an acre a good crop ; each pack 1350 bunches, of ten teasles each; price, 5 to 5 guineas per jiacV. 7 Grass. Old pastures and meadows very badly managed ; upl .ilh and ---â hills; meadows with rushes : and ould be wo
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