General view of the agriculture of the county of Northumberland ; with observations on ... its improvement / Drawn up for ... the Board of Agriculture.
- John Bailey
- Date:
- 1805
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: General view of the agriculture of the county of Northumberland ; with observations on ... its improvement / Drawn up for ... the Board of Agriculture. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![CHAP. VII. ARABLE LAND. SECT. I. TILLAGE. THE arable lands of this county being under vari- ous systems, and diredled by various opinions, the ma- nagement of the tillage must differ considerably. In the operation of ploughing, it is generally agreed that the breadth of the furrow should be about nine inches, and the depth from four to six or seven inches. It was formerly the general practice, not to plough the lands intended for fallow till after spring seed-time (and very often delayed till May, or even June); but now the fallows are ploughed before winter, to meliorate by the frost. In the middle of April, or beginning of May, those that are intended lur turnips or potatoes^ are harrowed and ploughed across, and, where necessary, rolled with a heavy roller; the same operations are repeated two, three, or more times, until it is thought sufficiently fine and clean for sowing or planting. ^ Those that are intended to be naked fallow for wheat, receive three, four, or five ploughings through the sum- mer ; but are seldom harrowed, it being thought an ad- vantage to wheat to have the land cloddy. On those fallows where quickens or couch-grass, &c. are found, every exertion is used to extirpate them, by harrowing, gathering and burning, or leading off, so long as the smallest remains are visible. The lime and manure are mostly laid on before the last ploughing. NORTHUMB.] S For](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22037949_0105.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
