Hints on Agricultural Subjects: And on the Best Means of Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes |
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1st Jan acre advance advantage afford agriculture allowance ascertain attention average barley benefit Bishop of Landaff bread bushels cabbages calves carrots carts cash paid cattle clover Colliery commencement conceive considerable consumption contributed Corn laws cost cultivation cut straw dairy DISBURSEMENTS ditto drill duce employed equal estimate exertion expense experiment farmer favour feeding grain grazing green crops green food ground half horses hundred improvements increase J. C. CURWEN John Fletcher kohlrabi kylo labour land Little Broughton loss lucerne manure means ment milch cows milk millions months oats object oil-cake opinion person plough population pounds practice produce profit proportion proved quantity quarts rye-grass saving Schoose Farm season sheep shillings sickness six pence society soiling sold steamed potatoes Steaming House stewards stone supply supposed tion tons town turnips Ulverston week weight wheat whole Workington