Hints on agricultural subjects, and on the best means of improving the condition of the labouring classes / By J.C. Curwen.

  • John Christian Curwen
Date:
1809
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Credit: Hints on agricultural subjects, and on the best means of improving the condition of the labouring classes / By J.C. Curwen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    them (regular cart horses), with the assistance of two colts in ploughing the fallows, did the whole tillage of 70 acres, and for different crops led me 2400 bushels of lime and ISO of coal from a distance of 14 miles, besides doing all the extra work which a family in the country must require. I allowed each horse above 91b. of oats per day, but I think a great saving might be made in the article of potatoes, with advantage, and 1 intend to try it, by substituting a large proportion of straw. I neither weighed or mea- sured the green crops, but both potatoes and carrots were very fair, though the latter, being drilled at 30 inches, could not be very heavy by the acre. I am, dear Sir, Your very faithful Servant, John Spedding, To John Christian Cukwen, Esq. M. P. Clcalor Park, Nov. 10th, 1S07. Dear Sir, I return you many thanks for the favour of your letter, as also for the civilities you showed me when at Workington, where I much wished to have stayed longer had the weather proved fair. I think the weight mentioned in your letter must have been of your turnips, although mentioned at the top as potatoe produce. My potatoes were as follows: Early Manchester, on ten yards square, 7 bushels of customary measure, each bushel weighing c 4 ] lilb.j our