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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![mcnts would ensue, and considerable quantities of ex- cellent hay be produced, for the support of the flocks in winter storms, in which seasons they are very often un- der the necessity of purchasing hay in the lowlands, and of having it conveyed on horse-back to the top of those hills, in the deepest snows, at a very great expense*. Lime—is found in many parts of this county, of an x- cellent quality. In Baniborough ward, where it has been long used, many intelligent farmers begin to doubt of its efiicacy, and the propriety of continuing to lay it upon their old tillage lands. U |3on the dry soils in Glen- dale ward, where it has not been used much above 4*0 yearsf, its effects are more conspicuous, especially upon ^uch lands as have been seldom or never limed. In its :natural state, the soil of this distri<ft is dry, duffy, light, full of fibrous roots; and when in fallow, on passing over it, you sink to the ancles: after being sufficiently limed, the fibrous roots disappear, the soil becomes denser, firm to the tread, retentive of moisture, and produces better and more abundant crops of grain than before ; when laid to grass, the eft'e^fs of the lime appear to an inch, by the superior verdure which takes place as far as it has gone j. Many of these dry soils, after being limed. * We were g!ai to see Mr Smith, Mr. Mars:ial l, and a few others, departing from this trait of barbarism, and applying their manure in a very pro- per manner. f Mr. J AM £ s H A L t., of Thornington, was the,first person that ever car- ried a cart-load of line across the river Til!, at Ford, for laying upon land : the first year he prevailed upon his father to allow liim to lead ten cart-loads, which had so wonderful an effedl, that the <puantity was increased next year, and in a few years after the use of it became general. + AbouC twelve years sinre, when looking over the farm of Thornington, with Mr. James Hall (the late tenant], 1 was surprized with the sudden alteration in the verdure of the land, which took place immediately at the ’’andtton of two ri Jges : one sKle was a fine dark green, ea/e» I'rrj/ bare, and . K z covered](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22037949_0171.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
