A Report on the Agriculture of Eastern and Western Flanders: Drawn Up at the Desire of the Farming Society of IrelandJ. Harding, 1819 - 329 Seiten |
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A Report on the Agriculture of Eastern and Western Flanders Thomas Radcliff,Farming Society of Ireland Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
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Seite 257 - Flanders, the gentlemen are all farmers, but the farmers do not aspire to be gentlemen ; and their servants feel the benefit. They partake with them of a plentiful and orderly meal, which varies according to circumstances. One standing dish, however, is universal — a soup, composed of butter-milk, boiled and thickened with flour, or rye-bread, potatoes, salt pork, salt fish, various vegetables, and eggs : fresh meat and fresh fish occur occasionally, though not for daily consumption. — Add to...
Seite 115 - The person who drives with long reins, by pressing moderately on the handle as the horses go forward, collects, and transports about 5 cwt. of earth to the place where it is to be deposited; which is effected in the most summary manner, by his letting go the handle".
Seite 40 - A heavy roller is then drawn across the ploughing by three horses, the manure is spread equally over the entire surface, and, when well harrowed in by eight or nine strokes of the harrow, the seed is sown, which is also harrowed in by a light harrow, with wooden pins of less than three inches, and...
Seite 140 - About twenty- four pounds of seed to the acre is the usual quantity. Its growth is so rapid that in five or six weeks it acquires its full height, which seldom exceeds twelve or fourteen inches. The crop is of course a light one, but is considered of great value, both as supplying a certain quantum of provender...
Seite 12 - ... particles which the ebb always leaves behind in considerable quantity. This growing soil soon produces various plants and grasses, and improves daily. When such lands have acquired a crust or surface of black earth, three or four inches deep, they may be embanked and fallowed. Those are always the most productive which have been deepened in their soil by the augmentations of the sea ; and experience proves, that in the corners and hollows where, from an obstructing boundary, the greatest quantity...
Seite 257 - Labourer. 255 less agreeable, to perceive the farm-servants treated with kindness and respect. They uniformly dine with the farmer and his family, at a clean table-cloth, well supplied with spoons, with four-pronged forks, and every thing necessary for their convenience. In Flanders, the gentlemen are all farmers, but the farmers do not aspire to be gentlemen ; and their servants feel the benefit. — They partake with them, of a plentiful and orderly meal, which varies according to circumstances....
Seite 14 - ... of thirteen acres each, surrounded by ditches. The bank is fifteen feet in height, thirty feet in the base, and ten feet across the top : the land which has been reclaimed by it, was let for a sheep pasturage at 60O francs (25/.) per annum, and was thrown up by the farmer as untenable.
Seite 40 - ... conveyed from the privies of the adjoining towns and villages, have also been blended. — This manure is gradually collected in subterraneous vaults of brickwork at the verge of the farm next to the main road. Those receptacles are generally forty feet long by fourteen wide, and seven, or eight feet deep, and in some cases are contrived with the crown of the arch so much below the surface of the ground, as to admit the plough to work over it. An aperture is left in the side, through which...