Rural England: Being an Account of Agricultural and Social Researches Carried Out in the Years 1901 & 1902, Volume 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1902 |
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... season of the year - for as yet no sign of spring was visible to the eye - the grey plough - lands stretch themselves out to an indefinite horizon . It is a country of long views and vast unhedged expanses , broken here and there by ...
... season of the year - for as yet no sign of spring was visible to the eye - the grey plough - lands stretch themselves out to an indefinite horizon . It is a country of long views and vast unhedged expanses , broken here and there by ...
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... season must be added a fall of over 1,000 lambs . In the year of 1901 the lambs , which under the rules of the Hampshire Down Association must not be dropped before January 1 , had been rather disappointing in numbers , since the wet ...
... season must be added a fall of over 1,000 lambs . In the year of 1901 the lambs , which under the rules of the Hampshire Down Association must not be dropped before January 1 , had been rather disappointing in numbers , since the wet ...
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... season of 1900 was not good for this grain here owing , he thought , to a summer frost which struck it before it ... seasons he sheeped it heavily , with the result that the twitch and other bad grasses were killed out , only the good ...
... season of 1900 was not good for this grain here owing , he thought , to a summer frost which struck it before it ... seasons he sheeped it heavily , with the result that the twitch and other bad grasses were killed out , only the good ...
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... season of my visit at an average price of 54d . a gallon . The processes employed in this great dairy are absolutely perfect , every drop of milk being Pasteurised before it is separated and churned . Cheese is also made here , but this ...
... season of my visit at an average price of 54d . a gallon . The processes employed in this great dairy are absolutely perfect , every drop of milk being Pasteurised before it is separated and churned . Cheese is also made here , but this ...
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... season dry , the yield averaged but three quarters to the acre , which sold for 30s . a quarter . Of wheat there were seventy acres , giving a good all - round crop of about four quarters to the acre . Of oats sixty - five acres , that ...
... season dry , the yield averaged but three quarters to the acre , which sold for 30s . a quarter . Of wheat there were seventy acres , giving a good all - round crop of about four quarters to the acre . Of oats sixty - five acres , that ...
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Rural England: Being an Account of Agricultural and Social ..., Volume 1 Henry Rider Haggard Visualização integral - 1906 |
Rural England: Being an Account of Agricultural and Social ..., Volume 1 Henry Rider Haggard Visualização integral - 1902 |
Rural England: Being an Account of Agricultural and Social ..., Volume 1 Henry Rider Haggard Visualização integral - 1906 |
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