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A Short History of English Agriculture · W. H. R. Curtler — chapter 18 of 29 · ~133 words · public domain

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Annals of Agriculture, iii. 366.

Baker, Seasons and Prices, pp. 224 et seq.

A. Stirling, Coke of Holkham, i. 249.

But in other parts of it the cultivation of turnips was well understood, for the Complete Farmer, s.v. Turnips (ed. 3), says that about 1750 Norfolk farmers boasted that turnips had doubled the value of their holdings, and Norfolk men were famous for understanding hoeing and thinning, which were little practised elsewhere. Further, Young, Southern Tour, p. 273, says: 'the extensive use of turnips is known but little of except in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex. I found no farmers but in these counties that understood anything of fatting cattle with them; feeding lean sheep being the only use they put them to.'

A. Stirling, op. cit. i. 264.

R.A.S.E. Journal (1895), p. 12.

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