Report On The Breaking Up Of Grass Land In England And Wales In The Harvest Year 1916 17

Author : Great Britain Food Productio Department
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333576790
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Report on the Breaking Up of Grass Land in England and Wales in the Harvest Year, 1916 17 (Classic Reprint) written by Great Britain Food Productio Department and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report on the Breaking Up of Grass Land in England and Wales in the Harvest Year, 1916 17 Good Grass on Deep Rich Alluvial Soil - Land of the type last considered may shade into a rich deep loam or, as in Lincolnshire, there may be fine silt or warp land now used for fattening cattle, but known to be so well adapted for arable farming, that under present circumstances it should be broken up. In the coming autumn it will be necessary to sow wheat on a large part of the stubble land which, in ordinary circumstances, would be planted with potatoes, and to replace the area lost it will be necessary to grow potatoes on this rich grass land, which experience has proved to be so well suited to the crop. Deep alluvial land may best be prepared for growing potatoes by ploughing to a depth of from 10 to 12 inches. This depth is secured by employing two ploughs following each other in the same furrow. One takes Off the surface to a depth of 2 inches or 4 inches, turning the turf into the bottom of the deep furrow left by the other plough, which opens a furrow of from 6 to 8 inches. The thick turf of this rich land is thus buried at a depth at which it will rot and will not dry out the soil, and, in contrast with the medium land last referred to, the potatoes are grown in the rich loam which underlies the turf, not in a mixture of turf and loam. 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.