10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CASCHROM»
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caschrom in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
caschrom and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
ing as a real cultivator, and as far ahead of the plough as the plough is preferable
to the caschrom. Now, I have never heard of an average family capable of spade-
cultivating properly in a year more than five acres of ordinary land, and I cannot ...
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The Celtic magazine, conducted by A. Mackenzie and A. MacGregor
We are glad to find the author in his text paying a high and deserved compliment
to the rude agricultural implement called the caschrom, or crooked spade, but the
woodcut intended to give the reader an idea of this primitive instrument is ...
Alexander Mackenzie, 1881
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Agricultural Surveys: Hebrides (1811)
and head, on which the labourers right foot applies the whole power of his body
for pushing with two jerks the head of the caschrom into the ground, previously to
his turning the clod, which he always docs from right to left, walking backward ...
Great Britain. Board of Agriculture, 1811
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General View of the Agriculture of the Hebrides, Or Western ...
and head, on. which the labourers right foot applies the whole power of his body
for pushing with two jerks the head of the caschrom into the ground, previously to
his turning the clod, which he1 always does from right to left, walking backward ...
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Enlightenment's Frontier: The Scottish Highlands and the ...
The caschrom represented the earliest form of agriculture in its most “uncultivated
” state, whereas the lazy bed cultivation of the potato was the outcome of recent
ecological exchange, albeit carried out “spontaneously,” without the intervention
...
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, 2013
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General view of the agriculture of the Hebrides, or western ...
and head, on which the labourers right foot applies the whole power of his body
for pushing with twp jerks the head of the caschrom into the ground, previously to
his turning the clod, which he always does from right to left, walking backward ...
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The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland, Containing ...
plough could not be used, even were the space greater ; and if the business is to
be conducted by the spade or the Highland caschrom, it is pretty nearly
indifferent whether there are twenty small patches to be dug, and sown, and
reaped, ...
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The highlands and western isles of Scotland, in letters to ...
plough could not be used, even were the space greater ; and if the business is to
be conducted by the spade or the Highland caschrom, it is pretty nearly
indifferent whether there are twenty small patches to be dug, and sown, and
reaped, ...
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Scottish Agricultural Implements
Isle ofSkye crofters, about 1880, planting potatoes in 'lazy beds' using the
caschrom or foot plough. It was said that twelve men with caschroms could
cultivate one acre (0.4 ha) per day. The women are manuring the beds with
seaweed, which ...
J. A one-piece caschrom from Ullapool, near Rhu. In the Highland Folk Museum,
Kingussie (5912, A 12). Ein caschrom aus einem Stuck aus Ullapool bei Rhu.
contrivance of man where the use of animals was unknown" (Macculloch 1824. III
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