Practical observations on the culture of lucerne, turnips, burnet, timothy grass, and foul meadow grass, communicated by letters to Dr. Templeman ... To which is added, an appendix, containing comparative estimates of the expence and profit in drill and broadcast husbandry ... And an account of some new instruments in husbandry / [Peter Templeman].

  • Peter Templeman
Date:
1766
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Credit: Practical observations on the culture of lucerne, turnips, burnet, timothy grass, and foul meadow grass, communicated by letters to Dr. Templeman ... To which is added, an appendix, containing comparative estimates of the expence and profit in drill and broadcast husbandry ... And an account of some new instruments in husbandry / [Peter Templeman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    .[ 4« ] <The Broad-caft Tillage of One Acre of Land., In Cumberland. The Second Year for Fallow, and the Third Year for Wheat. F.x pences. 1. s. d. Four Ploughings —• — c 14 0 Four Harrowings and Sowing — 026 Seed Wheat — — —— 0 12 O Total Expence i 8 6 The Value of the Crop, viz, 3 Quarters of Wheat at 4s. per Bufhel 4I. 16s. ... . • 4 i N. B. In this County the Broad-cad Tillage does not ad¬ mit a fourth Year’s Crop without a confiderable Lois : 'J herefore after the Third Year the Land is again manured, and the fame Procefs repeated for three Years more, and fo on from three Years to three Years. Note alfo, 24 Bufhels (in Cumberland') make a Quarter : Put in Yorkjhire eight Bufhels make a Quarter, and four Pecks, or nine Gallons make a Bufhel. So that the Bufhel tiled in Cu?nberland is but one Third of that ufed in York- Jhirc* / 1 V The 1 .1:
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