 ... often sown without this preparation : of dung and moulds, twenty-five three-horse loads per acre ; of dung alone, sixteen loads. This is done directly after wheat sowing is finished. The tillage consists in three earths, with harrowing sufficient...  The Belfast Monthly Magazine - Page 1071809Full view - About this book
 | Arthur Young - 1797 - 348 pages
...consists in three earths, with harrowing sufficient to make the soil perfectly fine ; and it is laid flat, with as few furrows as possible. Time of sowing, from...to two shillings a peck, generally from sixteen to eighteen-pence. Much is brought from Downham, and the fens ; the Seeded hemp is not so good by eighteen,... | |
 | George Alexander Cooke - 1802 - 304 pages
...bundles, called baits, The time of sowing is from tlit- middle to the end of April, but will bear sowing all May. It is often found, that, the early sown yields hemp of the best quality. No weeding is ever given to it, the hempdestroying every other plant. It is always water retted; clay... | |
 | Sir Charles Coote - 1802 - 396 pages
...make the foil perfeftly fine; and it is laid flat, with as few furrows as poffible. 1 Time of fowing, from the middle to the end of April, but will bear being fown all May. It is often found, that the early fown yields hemp of the beft quality. . . Quantity... | |
 | Arthur Young, Great Britain. Board of Agriculture - 1804 - 466 pages
...consists in three earths, with harrowing sufficient to make the soil perfectly fine ; and it is laid flat, with as few furrows as possible. Time of sowing, from...that the early sown yields hemp of the best quality. No weeding is ever given to it, the hemp destroying every other plant. It is pulled thirteen or fourteen... | |
 | Robert Wissett - 1804 - 248 pages
...if sowed in drills. Sinclair. Eleven pecks per acre, at the price of from one to two shillings per peck; generally from sixteen to. eighteen pence. Much is brought from Downham and the Fens. Suffolk Report. ONHEM P. 55 From nine to twelve pecks per acre, varying with the strength of the soil... | |
 | William Humphrey Marshall - 1811 - 556 pages
...consists in three earths, with harrowing sufficient to make the soil perfectly fine; and it is laid flat, with as few furrows as possible. " Time of sowing,...to two shillings a peck, generally from sixteen to eighteen-pence. Much is brought from Downham, and the fens ; the seeded hemp is not so good by eighteen-pence... | |
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