 The loose white sand blown into irregular mounds is only kept together by the roots of the heath : a small spot only is levelled and surrounded by a ditch ; part of this is covered with young broom, part is planted with potatoes, and perhaps a small patch...  The Farmers' Register, 1841 - Page 402by Edmund Ruffin - 1841Full view - About this book
 | 1839 - 520 pages
...part is planted with potatoes, and perhaps a small patch of diminutive clover may show itself; _but there is a heap of dung and compost forming. The urine...lessee is trenching and levelling the surface, sowing broom seed, and planting young fir trees, which are to be cut down in a few years. In another the process... | |
 | 1838 - 528 pages
...most unpromising aspect. The loose white sand blown into irregular mounds is only kept together by the roots of the heath : a small spot only is levelled...broom-seed, and planting young fir-trees, which are to be cut down in a few years. In another, the process has gone on further, the firs or the broom are already... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - 1838 - 834 pages
...itself: but there is a heap of dung and compost forming. The urine of the cow is collected in a email tank, or perhaps in a cask sunk in the earth ; and...spot more extensive improvements are going on ; a weolihy proprietor or lessee is trenching and levelling the surface, sowing broomeeed, and planting... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - 1838 - 782 pages
...itself: but there is a heap of dung and compost forming. The urine of the cow is collected in a email tank, or perhaps in a cask sunk in the earth ; and this is the nucleus from which, in a lew years, a little farm will spread around. We are here describing the labor of bringing a soil absolutely... | |
 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - 1841 - 522 pages
...most unpromising aspect. The loose white sand blown into irregular mounds is only kept together by the roots of the heath: a small spot only is levelled...extensive improvements are going on; a wealthy proprietor qr lessee is trenching and levelling the surface, sowing broom-seed, and planting young fir-trees,... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - 1842 - 1364 pages
...levelled, and surrounded by a ditch. Part of this is covered with young broom; another part is covered with potatoes ; and perhaps a small patch of diminutive...in a few years, a little farm will spread around. (Outlines, p. 11.) Of their use of liquid manure, I shall hereafter, underthathead,haveoccasion to... | |
 | Luther Tucker - 1844 - 404 pages
...potatoes are planted, when a cow is kept. The urine is collected carefully in a small tank, or perhaps a cask sunk in the earth, and this is the nucleus from which, in a few yean, a little farm will spread around. W. SHEEP or THE LATE HD GROVE.—The wool from these sheep... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1848 - 622 pages
...small patch of diminutive clover may show itself:" but manures, both solid and liquid, are collecting, "and this is the nucleus from which, in a few years, a little farm will spread around. ... If there is no manure at hand, the only thing that can be sown on pure sand, at first, is broom:... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1849 - 638 pages
...patch of diminutive clover may show itself:" but manures, both solid and liquid, are collecting, " and this is the nucleus from which, in a few years, a little farm will spread around. ... If there is no manure at hand, the only thing that can be sown, on pure sand, at first, is broom... | |
 | Joseph Kay - 1850 - 680 pages
...small patch of diminutive clover may show itself ; but manures, both solid and liquid, are collecting, and this is the nucleus from which, in a few years, a little farm will spread around If there is no manure at hand, the only thing that can be sown on pure sand, at first, is broom : this... | |
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