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A six months tour through the north of England / Containing, an account of the present state of agriculture, manufactures and population, in several counties of this kingdom ... Interspersed with descriptions of the seats of the nobility and gentry; and other remarkable objects.

  • Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.
Date:
1770
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A six months tour through the north of England / Containing, an account of the present state of agriculture, manufactures and population, in several counties of this kingdom ... Interspersed with descriptions of the seats of the nobility and gentry; and other remarkable objects. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Esra | above ; the oxen fatted extremely faft, as did the 12 fheep; the calves were in excel« lent condition ; and the ewes never better, the lambs healthy and good, and not one loft through the feafon.————Barley fuc- ceeded, and though the land is not at all favourable to that grain, yet the crop was great. | 1764. This year Mr. Scroope extended the cul- ture to eight acres two roods, the land a — good loam, worth 15s. an acre. It was ploughed, for the firft time, the beginning of March; and, the fecond time, the end © of April, from angle to angle. The firft week in May, two chaldrons per acre of lime were harrowed in with ox-harrows, horfe ones following. -Between the 5th and 15th it was ploughed again from op= pofite angles, and harrowed again. May 22d began manuring, 12 loads per acre. The 2sth, ploughed it into four feet beds, and planted a row on each, 22 inches from plant to plant: The feed fown as before in the fpring, and taken from the bed di- rectly intothe field ; this work was finifhed the 2d of Fune. uly 1oth, the firft horfe-hoeing was gi- ven,,