General View of the Agriculture of the County of Radnor: With Observations on the Means of Its Improvement, Tom 10,Wydanie 6Colin Macrae, 1794 - 41 A brief, simplified retelling of the episode in "Doctor Dolittle" during which a physician discovers that he has a strange and wonderful gift for talking with animals. |
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30 ditto adjoining counties age to age agriculture ashes banks Breconshire breed brooks Builth burning clay common justice corn land COUNTY OF RADNOR cultivation degree depasture districts of commons ditch drains Edow Esquire expence extensive commons farm farmers fifty thousand acres four-pence gallon gate grain grass green crops healthy heaps hedge Hereford Herefordshire hills hilly hundred of Rhydargowy improvement inclosed inclosure inhabitants Knighton land-owners lime lime-stone little streams manure miles misfortune mountainous districts muck natives nature neat cattle oats pasture PEAT planted plough portion pounds present neglected quantity RADNORSHIRE rent river roads rotation of crops Scotch fir seven pence sheep shew shilling Shropshire soil South Wales sow clover sown species spot spring statute acre stones tenant Thomas Jones three feet TILLAGE LAND timber trees turnpikes twenty upper district vallies waste lands wheat white corn whole county wool woollen manufactory Wye Side yard
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Strona 5 - ... with any additional remarks and observations which may occur on the perusal, written on the margin, as soon as may be convenient. It is hardly necessary to add, that the Board does not consider itself responsible for any fact or observation contained in this Report, which at present is printed and circulated for the purpose, merely, of procuring farther information respecting the husbandry of this district, and of enabling every one to contribute his mite to the improvement of the country. The...
Strona 5 - Report, which, at prefent, is printed and cireulated, for the purpose merely of procuring farther information, respecting the husbandry of this district, and of enabling every one to contribute his mite, to the improvement of the country. • The Board has adopted the same plan, in regard to all the other counties in the united kingdom; and, will be happy to give every assistance in its power, to any person, who may be desirous of improving his breed of cattle, sheep, &c.
Strona 7 - The forces entrusted to my command are designed to act in concert and upon a common principle, with the numerous armies and fleets which already display in every quarter of America, the power, the justice, and, when properly...
Strona 26 - The advantage which would attend inclosure, may be easily ascertained by any one, who will take the trouble of examining the very different appearance> which the small .slices lhat are occasionally stolen from the common, make after inclosure, from that of the remaining part of the waste.
Strona 11 - Another misfortune attending this soil, is, that it keeps possession of that portion of water which it catches first hold of, to the exclusion of the air and of other richer moisture contained in the atmosphere, the grand store house of nature.
Strona 25 - Were all the occupiers of land in the nation, exempted from the payment of rent, the ruin of themselves and families, as well as a general famine, would, in less than half a century, probably be the consequence.
Strona 23 - ... in the uncultivated soil that portion of the food of society, which their being compelled to labour, •would add to the general mass.
Strona 19 - Hereford breed, does very well on the side of the Wye, and the lower parts, where the land is tolerably well cultivated. They are, however, even there, not only much inferior in size, but, in general, want the bald face, the true characteristic mark of a Herefordshire ox.
Strona 23 - ... that while so many of our brave countrymen are compelled to find bread by the cultivation of a foreign soil, so large...
Strona 23 - AIL this is true : but it is equally true, that although a shilling be ot some value, a guinea is still more so. If, therefore, one acre can be made to produce as much food for society as twenty-one do in their present neglected state, the public at large, as well as the land-owners, woLild be benefited by a general inclusure ot the waste lands in the kingdom.