. Agricultural writers from Sir Walter of Henley to Arthur Young, 1200-1800. Reproductions in facsimile and extracts from their actual writings, enlarged and revised from articles which have appeared in "The Field" from 1903-1907. To which is added an exhaustive bibliography . mer does to-day ? As tobarley he states :— That there be three maner of barleys, that is to say, sprot barley, lonjre eare, andhere barley, that somme men call bigge. Sprot barley hath a flat eare, three-quartersof an inch brode, and three inches long. Long eare is halfe an inch brode, and foureinches and more of lengtii
. Agricultural writers from Sir Walter of Henley to Arthur Young, 1200-1800. Reproductions in facsimile and extracts from their actual writings, enlarged and revised from articles which have appeared in "The Field" from 1903-1907. To which is added an exhaustive bibliography . mer does to-day ? As tobarley he states :— That there be three maner of barleys, that is to say, sprot barley, lonjre eare, andhere barley, that somme men call bigge. Sprot barley hath a flat eare, three-quartersof an inch brode, and three inches long. Long eare is halfe an inch brode, and foureinches and more of lengtii. Here, then, it is clearly shown that the modern type of flat-earedbarley known as Goldthorpe, and the long-eared type which we callChevalier, was in some form or other known to Fitzherbert; indeed, hismeasurements would represent an average ear to-day. Of oats, he speaksof red, yellow, black, and rough, the red being best for oatmeal. It maybe presumed these latter are what we call sandy oats. Hay was madeof the native grasses, stacked into ricks, and cut into trusses. In the fourteenth century, says Professor Rogers in his exhaustivework on the History of Agriculture, Vol. I., Eighteen acres of grass■ on the Oxford meadows sold at ^s. To mow and stack would cost. joiix 11 r/.iii:i;i!i:K I. Cini)t boouc on)ttfl)ant5!^ folio .^ctcbcsvnnttl) tl)e bcuc of liulban* baut)en}cnDolvuc. ^J^emood: genctall Irtirnge tl)atc,so; t]urbontics can Ijaiic ^isbr Ploiw^>ngefifo\»pngccft^er;tco^zncs/^tetptigco;^ b^tetirngcoftt/cr^cca*tcll/ant) not tl}c one totljcute tljectljer-trijan ist!]e plougljef moftnecedavpeft mftctuncnt f»an \)\\Ubantte can occuprc^VDbctfo^zc U iscouenpent to be bnouien Ijotj) a plots) ftoin be maDe* C^D^lwriJ maners^ of plo\»e2?*r^^l^ece be ploUKS of Dpuers mafepngc0int)pe/fome meane ettbe4oine mebtileb t^ttl) matle/anti in manp placciJ bettjc grounbeanb one ploughtopll not fetue in al pIaccs,U)l)ctfo,ie it 10 ncceffatp tobane bpaecs manet of plotoes^n S^om
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