. 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. and it ripens Kxmer, The. lentil, Young observes, is a crop no) uncommon about Chesterton! in Essex,where the] soa a bushed an acre on one ploughing in the beginning r middle of March, it is therethe custom t make ha> of them, or seed them for cutting into chaff for trough-meat for sheep andhorses, and thej soa them on both heavy and <iry soil
. 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. and it ripens Kxmer, The. lentil, Young observes, is a crop no) uncommon about Chesterton! in Essex,where the] soa a bushed an acre on one ploughing in the beginning r middle of March, it is therethe custom t make ha> of them, or seed them for cutting into chaff for trough-meat for sheep andhorses, and thej soa them on both heavy and <iry soils it is, however, added, that the whole countryis of a calcareous nature, it i~ likewise stated, that attention should be paid not to water horses soonaft* i eating this -it ol food, as thej are apt t hove them. They are asserted to be cultivated lor thesame purpose in Oxfordshire, and probablj in other districts, III, product l l >? lentil in grain is about ? fourth less than that of the tare; and in straw it is nota tlnnl as much, the plants seldom growing above cme foot and a hallhigh. The straw is, however, verydelicate and nourishing, and preferred for lambs and calves; and the grain on the Continent sells at nea
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