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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![the sheep getting a daily, regular supply of fresh food, and the shells being kept clean, are eaten by young cattle, or those that are to be fattened next summer upon grass. Sometimes every other ridge is led off, and the remain- der eaten upon the ground where they grow. •When eaten upon the ground, the sheep are not turned upon the whole at once, but have it portioned out to them by hurdles, or nets ; so that they may have a fresh break once a week or ten days. < For seed, the turnips of the best form are selefted and transplanted in the month of O^fober, November, or De- cember, into a piece of ground properly prepared to re- ceive them: in Julv or August following it is generally reaped, tied up in sheaves, and when dry, put into*a long stack, where it is kept through the winter, and thrashed out in April or May. : The trouble of selecting and transplanting is sometimes dispensed with; but the seed raised in this manner is sold ■ for one-half or one-third the price of the transplanted seed ; that is, when the transplanted seed is sold for Ij. per lb. the other is sold for W. or Gd.' ■ The produce is variable, being subject to many casual- ties. The average crop may be reckoned about twenty bushels, or half a ton per acre. The land should be good, and well manured after the crop, as we iind the • soil much impoverished by it. KORTHUMB.] II! STOAT](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22037949_0137.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
