 | United States. Congress. House - 586 pagine
...green forage or root-crops in the field. The best means should be devised for converting grass-lands into tillage, without exhausting the soil, and of...returning the same to grass after a certain period in an amended i-tiite, or at least without injury. New plants should be adopted into the rotation of crops,... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1818 - 466 pagine
...Change- Alley. " I am, &c. "R. LANDAFF." Sir John Sinclair was the first president of the .. Board £>f Agriculture, and he was turned out of that office...the following answer to this communication, in hopes mat His Lordship might suggest something really useful to Mr. Pitt, with whom he was very intimate... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1818 - 494 pagine
...teach them not to range beyond the field of Change- Alley. " I am, &c. " R. LANDAFF." H •• • . Sir John Sinclair was the first president of the Board...period, in an improved state, or at least without injurjr. This subject had been recommended to the consideration of the Board by a committee of the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 814 pagine
...government, was long engaged in an enquiry 'into the best means of converting portions of grass lands into tillage, without exhausting the soil, and of...in an improved state, or at least, without injury : and, while the author of the supplemental article on Agriculture in the Encyclopedia Britannica thinks... | |
 | John Sinclair - 1837 - 816 pagine
...to them by the House of Lords, as to " the best means of converting certain portions of grass land into tillage, without exhausting the soil, and of...in an improved state, or at least without injury." To elicit information, the Board offered premiums to the amount of several hundred pounds, for the... | |
 | Francis S. Wiggins - 1840 - 512 pagine
...1800 a very particular and extensive inquiry "into the best means of converting certain grass lands into tillage, without exhausting the soil, and of...grass, after a certain period, in an improved state, or 22 at least without injury." An immense mass of the most important and satisfactory information was... | |
 | 534 pagine
...of several hundred pounds. It was for the best essay to describe ' the surest means of converting- grass-land into tillage, without exhausting the soil, and of returning the same to grass iu an improved state.' The number of competitors who sent in essays amounted to 350 ! About the same... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1853 - 48 pagine
...reward of several hundred pounds. It was for the best essay to describe ' the surest means of converting grass-land into tillage, without exhausting the soil, and of returning the same to grass iu an improved state. The number of competitors who sent in essays amounted to 350 ! About the same... | |
 | 1855 - 526 pagine
...reward of several hundred pounds. It was for the best essay to describe ' the surest means of converting grass-land into tillage, without exhausting the soil, and of returning the same to grass ia an improved state.' The number of competitors who sent in essays amounted to 350 ! About the same... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - 1858 - 728 pagine
...green forage or root-crops in the field. The best means should be devised for converting grass-lands into tillage, without exhausting the soil, and of...returning the same to grass after a certain period in an amended f-tate, or at least without injury. New plants should be adopted into the rotation of crops,... | |
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On the best means of converting certain portions of grassland into tillage without exhausting the soil, and of returning the same to grass, after a certain period, in an improved state, or at least without injury. 
