General Report of the Agricultural State: And Political Circumstances, of Scotland, Volume 1A. Constable & Company, 1814 - 460 pages |
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Page 85 - Burgage-holding is a tenure, by which royal burghs hold of the sovereign, the houses and lands that lie within the limits described in their several charters of erection.
Page 526 - ... established. Before the introduction of this root, it was impossible to cultivate light soils successfully, or to devise suitable rotations for cropping them with advantage. It was likewise a difficult task to support live stock through the winter and spring months ; and as for feeding and preparing cattle and sheep for market, during...
Page 97 - ... draining, or in erecting farm-houses and offices for the same, shall be a creditor to the succeeding heirs of entail, for three-fourths of the money laid out, provided that the amount claimed, shall not exceed four years' free rent of the estate, at the first term of Whitsunday, after the demise of the heir who ex6.
Page 5 - ... and these accounts will ever remain an extraordinary monument of the learning, good sense, and general information of the clergy of Scotland, It is to be regretted that the adjoining parishes are not put together in the work, which would have assisted the memory both in attaining and recollecting the state of particular districts. The repetitions and contradictory opinions which occur are not in my opinion so objectionable, as, to the result...
Page 545 - It admits of demonstration that an acre of potatoes will feed double the number of people that can be fed from an acre of wheat.
Page 526 - The benefits derived from turnip husbandry are, therefore, of great magnitude. Light soils are now cultivated with profit and facility ; abundance of food is provided for man and beast ; the earth is turned to the uses for which it is physically calculated ; and, by being suitably cleaned with this preparatory crop, a bed is provided for grass seeds, wherein they flourish and prosper with greater vigour than after any other preparation.
Page 399 - ... the ground, though absolutely necessary while the fallow process is going on, can never eradicate couch-grass or other root-weeds. In all clay soils, the ground turns up in lumps or clods, which the severest drought will not penetrate so sufficiently as to kill the included roots. When the land is again ploughed, these lumps are simply turned over and no more, and the action of the plough serves in no degree to reduce them, or at least very imperceptibly. It may be added that these lumps likewise...
Page 107 - In no country in Europe are the rights of proprietors so well defined and so carefully protected,' wrote Sir John Sinclair in 1814 (General Report of Scotland (1814), i.
Page 46 - A portion of them is clothed with green herbage, more especially where sheep farming prevails ; but in general they are covered with heath, vegetating above peat, rock, or gravel ; and they frequently terminate in mountain cups of solid rock, or in vast heaps or cairns of bare and weather-beaten stones.
Page 168 - Though we cannot enter ims aH the details which are presented to us in this luminous dissertation, we shall present our readers with the general result: • On the whole, there seems to be a regular progress in the size of farms. At first, when the art of agriculture is in its infancy, farms must be small, because there is neither capital to cultivate, nor »kill to manage, large occupations.