A Farmers Year Being His Commonplace book for 1898
The book A Farmers Year Being His Commonplace book for 1898 was written by author Haggard Henry Rider Here you can read free online of A Farmers Year Being His Commonplace book for 1898 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A Farmers Year Being His Commonplace book for 1898 a good or bad book?
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A single nest of them in a barley field will destroy the yield of quite a large area of the corn ; indeed, I am inclined to think that they do even more damage to 294 A FARMER'S YEAR growing corn than to root crops. Perhaps, however, they are most troublesome in the case of young trees, for, wire these in as one will, they manage to burrow beneath the fence and to kill the saplings by gnawing the sweet bark off their stems. August 6. Last Wednesday Hood went to Harleston market, which is a very... good one, in the hope of picking up some young home-bred beasts at a moderate figure. This he did not succeed in doing, but he reports that fat cattle were selling as low as six shillings a stone. This is an utterly unremunerative price, caused by the plentiful root-crop of last year ; but now the beet is done, and poor farmers have to empty their yards and take what they can get. Yesterday and the day before we were horse- and hand-hoeing the root, and to-day, which is dull with heavy showers of rain, we are carting house coal as well.
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