Six Months Tour Through the North of England, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from Six Months Tour Through the North of England, Vol. 2: Containing, an Account of the Present State of Agriculture, Manufactures and Population, in Several Counties of This Kingdom From Beverley to Driffield is, I think, by much the best turnpike road I have met with in Yorkshire, it is an open wold country, cultivated in a very indifferent manner. Around the latter named town, the soil is chiefly clay, lets at about 10 s. an acre. Farms, from 30 l. to 120 l. Their course is, 1. Fallow 2. Wheat or barley 3. Pease or beans 4. Oats. They plough four times for wheat, sow two bushels and a peck, and reap at an average twenty-four. For barley they give five ploughings, sow three bushels, and gain in return about three quarters and an half. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.