Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 / translated by Joseph Lucas ; with two maps and several illustrations.

  • Pehr Kalm
Date:
1892
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Credit: Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 / translated by Joseph Lucas ; with two maps and several illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    open sky, and ferments together. On the top it is com- monly covered with straw-litter, halm-byssje. As a great part of the land round London is laid out in meadows and pastures, and the owners are very careful by all means to cover over the grass-lands with it, be- cause they can thus obtain a larger profit from them, so they commonly manure their meadows once a year, which is done thus. In September or October, or also later, when the cattle are no longer driven on to the meadows or pastures, they take the manure which has lain and rotted in the above-named heaps, carry it out on to the meadow, and there spread it out somewhat thinly. The rain, which at this season of the year commonly follows this, washes the manure down to the roots of the grass, so that it does not evaporate, at den ej svinner bårt i luften. Hence it happens that the meadows around London bear so luxuriant and abundant a grass-crop tha t they can be mown so early, and several times a year. [T. I. p. 426.] _ . This well rotted manure, the time of year when it is spread out on the meadows, and the English climate, in which not much snow falls at a .time in the winter to wash away the best and fattest of the manure in melting, cause the meadows to fare incomparably well on it, and accounts for no one here knowing much about what it is for the manure spread on the meadows to burn up the grass. Råg sällsynt omkring London. Rye rare around London. To-day for the first time we saw rye growing here in England, for in all the places we had been at before we had not seen one rye plant, råg-stånd, because it is wheat that is grown everywhere here. This rye now stood in the ear, everywhere, and was tolerably fine, so
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