General View of the Agriculture of Lancashire, with Observations on the Means of Its Improvement |
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Page v - Reports thus reprinted, as it is impossible to consider them yet in a perfect state ; and that it will thankfully acknowledge any additional information which may still be communicated : an invitation of which, it is hoped, many will avail themselves, as there is no circumstance from which any one can derive more real satisfaction, than that of contributing, by every possible means, to promote the improvement of his Country.
Page 368 - ... frequently examine them, and when the shoots are sprung an inch and a half or two inches, they carefully remove one half of their covering with a wooden rake, or with the hands, taking care not to disturb or break the shoots. Light is requisite as well as air to strengthen and establish the shoots...
Page 367 - March, when they are planted, after having had one spit taken off, and planted with another, of a length sufficient to appear above ground in the space of a week. " But the most approved method is, to cut the sets, and put them on a room-floor, where a strong current of air can be introduced at pleasure, the sets laid thinner, viz.
Page 392 - Lancashire would not support the inhabitants more than three months in the year; so that the easiest way of obtaining corn, until the county is improved, is to purchase it at other markets. " The lands in the immediate vicinity of the great towns are chiefly employed in pasturage; at a remoter distance, in pasturage and meadow, immense quantities of hay being requisite for the number of horses and cows kept therein. Near some places, such as Bolton, besides the demand for lands under hay and grass,...
Page 564 - When the curds have been thus mixed, well pressed and closed with the hands in a cheese-vat, till they become one solid lump, it is put into a press for four or five hours, then taken out of the cheese-vat, and turned, by means of a cloth put into the same for this purpose, and again...
Page 2 - Issued out under his seal belonging to the office of Chancellor ; his justices both for holding the pleas of the crown, and for all other pleas relating to common law, and the cognizance thereof, and all executions by his writs and officers within the same , and all other liberties and royalties relating to the county palatine as freely and fully as the Earl of Chester is known to enjoy them within the county of Chester,
Page 2 - III. the earldom was erected into a duchy in favour of Henry Plantagenet, the then earl, and afterwards of John of Gaunt, who had married the heiress of Henry, and for whom the county was made a palatine county. Henry IV., son of John of Gaunt, procured an act of parliament 'that the title and revenues should remain to him and his heirs for ever, as a distinct and separate inheritance from the crown ; but in the time of Edward IV.
Page 428 - ... and which may not a little contribute to sobriety ; intemperance not unfrequently proceeding from want of recreation to fill up a vacant hour. This small space is devoted to nurturing his young seedlings, trimming his more matured plants, contemplating new varieties, in expectation of honours through the medium of gained premiums. Thus starting at...
Page 484 - Paring and bur ing has been too much pra&ifed *, its deftructive effects are hut too apparent upon many farms where it has been frequently repeated. Great crops may have been procured, by this means, for a few years; but the foil in the end is deftroyed. Upon ftrong bent, heath, fungous mofs, matted...
Page 434 - Take new cider from the press, mix it with honey till it bears an egg ; boil it gently for a quarter of an hour, (but not in an iron pot,) take off the...