Rural England: Being an Account of Agricultural and Social Researches Carried Out in the Years 1901 & 1902, Opseg 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1902 |
Iz unutrašnjosti knjige
Rezultati 1 - 5 od 100.
Stranica 2
... grass out of which our forefathers reclaimed them . Thus our national neglect of husbandry , and of the welfare of the soil and those who till it , has decreed that it shall be . For my part - although I know all the arguments in its ...
... grass out of which our forefathers reclaimed them . Thus our national neglect of husbandry , and of the welfare of the soil and those who till it , has decreed that it shall be . For my part - although I know all the arguments in its ...
Stranica 22
... grass . He answered that the land was not suitable for laying down . Boys , also , my informants declared , were scarcely obtainable ; even shopkeepers found it difficult to hire them . Especially does the Wiltshire labourer object to ...
... grass . He answered that the land was not suitable for laying down . Boys , also , my informants declared , were scarcely obtainable ; even shopkeepers found it difficult to hire them . Especially does the Wiltshire labourer object to ...
Stranica 28
... grass lands have only dwindled 15 to 20 per cent . Here , as in most places , the trouble was one of labour . We are masters now . I would sooner go to penal servitude than work for a farmer , ' was the remark made to one of my ...
... grass lands have only dwindled 15 to 20 per cent . Here , as in most places , the trouble was one of labour . We are masters now . I would sooner go to penal servitude than work for a farmer , ' was the remark made to one of my ...
Stranica 30
... grass and been fenced with wire for sheep . The pasture , however , is of a very inferior nature , being full of moss , although it cost £ 1 an acre to seed , and £ 80 a mile to fence . In short , on the highlands the arable is ...
... grass and been fenced with wire for sheep . The pasture , however , is of a very inferior nature , being full of moss , although it cost £ 1 an acre to seed , and £ 80 a mile to fence . In short , on the highlands the arable is ...
Stranica 40
... grass lands do not seem to have suffered a depreciation of more than about 10 per cent . , but on the arables it is , of course , con- siderably heavier . There are on this property no fewer than 1,212 allotments , but for the most part ...
... grass lands do not seem to have suffered a depreciation of more than about 10 per cent . , but on the arables it is , of course , con- siderably heavier . There are on this property no fewer than 1,212 allotments , but for the most part ...
Ostala izdanja - Prikaži sve
Uobičajeni izrazi i fraze
acres agricultural apples arable average barley believe better Bewdley breed buildings capital cattle cent chalk cider corn cost cottages cows crop cultivation Dauntsey Vale Devonshire district earn England Essex Evesham farm farmers fetched field fruit garden gentleman grass grow growers Guernsey Hampshire hands harvest Hereford Herefordshire hill holdings hop plant horses instance interest Jersey Kent labour lambs land landlord living Lyonshall manure miles milk neighbour neighbourhood opinion orchards owner paid parish pasture perhaps planted plough poor potatoes produce profit prosperity purchase railway rent rental result Rider Haggard rural sainfoin scarce season seemed sell sheep Shropshire small-holdings soil sold Stonehenge tenant things thirty thought tithe told towns trees twenty vergées village visited wages Warwickshire week wheat Williton Wiltshire Winterslow Worcestershire young
Popularni odlomci
Stranica 33 - Our Place among Infinities : a Series of Essays contrasting our Little Abode in Space and Time with the Infinities around us.
Stranica 9 - WHERE THREE EMPIRES MEET: a Narrative of Recent Travel in Kashmir, Western Tibet, Baltistan, Ladak, Gilgit, and the adjoining Countries. With a Map and 54 Illustrations. Cr. 8vo., 3s. 6d. THE ' FALCON' ON THE BALTIC: a Voyage from London to Copenhagen in a Three-Tonner.
Stranica 19 - INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE OF RELIGION : Four Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution. Crown 8vo., 51. NATURAL RELIGION. The Gifford Lectures, delivered before the University of Glasgow in 1888.
Stranica 35 - SACRED AND LEGENDARY ART, containing Legends of the Angels and Archangels, the Evangelists, the Apostles, the Doctors of the Church, St. Mary Magdalene, the Patron Saints, the Martyrs, the Early Bishops, the Hermits and the WarriorSaints of Christendom, as represented in the Fine Arts.
Stranica 516 - MEN of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay ye low ? Wherefore weave with toil and care The rich robes your tyrants wear...
Stranica 13 - THE GROUSE. Natural History, by the Rev, HA MACPHERSON ; Shooting, by AJ STUART-WORTLEY ; Cookery, by GEORGE SAINTSBURY.
Stranica 1 - MANUAL of the HISTORY of INDIA, from the Earliest Period to the Present.
Stranica 35 - AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES TO STUDENTS OF THE BIRMINGHAM MUNICIPAL SCHOOL OF ART ON SIST FEBRUARY, 1894. 8vo., 2s. 6d. net. (Printed in ' Golden ' Type.) ART AND THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH: a Lecture delivered at Burslem Town Hall, on October 13, 1881.
Stranica 20 - Horace. — THE WORKS OF HORACE, RENDERED INTO ENGLISH PROSE. With Life, Introduction and Notes. By WILLIAM COUTTS, MA Crown 8vo., 51. net. Lang.
Stranica 15 - Comprising a Short Natural History of the Wildfowl that are Rare or Common to the British Islands, with Complete Directions in Shooting Wildfowl on the Coast and Inland. With 200 Illustrations. Cr. 8vo, 18s. Pole.— THE THEORY OF THE MODERN SCIENTIFIC GAME OF WHIST. By WILLIAM POLE, FRS Fcp.