A treatise on Cobbett's corn

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William Cobbett, 1828 - 292 pages
 

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Page 11 - AT that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungered, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.
Page 47 - Cobbett's, er the dwarf corn is, however, only four feet high ; he planted his in rows three feet apart, which distance he is inclined to think is too small. " Three feet do not give room for good, true, and tolerably deep ploughing : and that is the main thing in the cultivation of corn, which indeed will not thrive well, if the ground be not deeply moved, and very near to the plants to which they are growing. You will see in America a field of corn late in June, perhaps, which has not been ploughed,...
Page 16 - And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Page 16 - When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel. When thou comest into thy neighbour's standing corn...
Page 83 - ... a ploughing from the plants, and another to turn the earth back. This second double ploughing must be regulated, in point of time, not so much by the lime of the year as by the age, the height, and the state of the plants.

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