A Short History of English Agriculture

by W. H. R. Curtler

[375] Smith, Memoirs of Wool, ii. 93.

[376] John Lawrence, New System of Agriculture, p. 45. In 1712, a normal season, 48 acres of wheat at Southwick in Hants produced 16 bushels per acre, 45 acres of barley 12 bushels per acre, 30 acres of oats 24 bushels per acre; at the same place 240 sheep realized 8s. each, cows 65s., calves £1, horses £6, hay 25s. a ton (Hampshire Notes and Queries, iii. 120).

[377] Worlidge, Systema Agriculturae, p. 42.

[378] Collections, iv. 142.

[379] Lawrence, New System of Agriculture, p. 109.

[380] Tour (ed. 1724), i. 87.

[381] Ellis, Chiltern and Vale Farming, p. 353.

[382] Bradley, General Treatise, i. 175.

[383] Ellis, Chiltern and Vale Farming, p. 260.

[384] J. Lawrence, New System of Agriculture, p. 112.