. 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. •• We must go deeper for the causes of demoralisation than the mere assembling toge h^r of men andwomen in the fields. It is by nearly all the witnesses that the women who work n the ti e d^akeneither good housewives nor good servants Now to be ne ther a onl nKe«uea good household servant, is a grievous charge against outfield labour «


. 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. •• We must go deeper for the causes of demoralisation than the mere assembling toge h^r of men andwomen in the fields. It is by nearly all the witnesses that the women who work n the ti e d^akeneither good housewives nor good servants Now to be ne ther a onl nKe«uea good household servant, is a grievous charge against outfield labour « ere out field »™f bable with a result so much to be regretted But the cause! of the D orsetand \\ .Its andJ^ne^uDevon women who have worked in the fields being such thriftless housewives, as the} ar en™™fto be in the Reports mentioned, is quite a different cause from that as signed. I: is J ust as dmereas possibly can be, for it U that the unstable nature of al agricultural engagements * 3England begets a of employment, with small am ^1T,rterS Vord hou=ekccP n~pood furniture and clothes, and family stores of provisions, unattainable, renders good nou-ekcepin, impossible. 4 S 4 js ;o ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AGKIC


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