10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STONEBRASH»
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1
Reports from Commissioners
Regularity of cropping is scarcely to be found on any two adjoining farms
between the chalk downs and the stonebrash, a natural consequence of the
frequent and very marked changes in the nature of the soil. The most noticeable
features in ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1869
2
The Farming of Somersetshire
Lms FORMATION. Stonebrash and C'lay.—On the south-east of King's
Sedgemoor is a district of table-land on the lias formation. It presents a steep
escarpment to the moor, of which it forms the boundary. This boundary has all the
appearance ...
Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, W. Sturge, 1851
3
View of the Agriculture of Oxfordshire: Drawn Up for the ...
Average of the stonebrash around Coversfield, estimated at 20s. Westcot Barton,
stonebrash 20s. per acre, tithe- free. Average of the county, 25s. Duns Tew 24s. ;
was before enclosing 12s. or 13s. In general, in the whole stonebrash district, ...
The proportionate extent of these soils, taking the total of the county at 450,000
acres, may thus be stated in the estimation of Mr. Neele, Map Engraver to the
Board : Aaes, Red-land 79,635 Stonebrash 164,023 Chiltern 64,778
Miscellaneous ...
Mr. Marshall (William), 1818
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View of the agriculture of Oxfordshire. By the secretary of ...
Average of the stonebrash around Coversfield, estimated at 20s. Westcot Barton,
stonebrash 20s. per acre, tithe- free. Average of the county, 25s. Duns Tew 21s. ;
was before enclosing 12s. or 13s. In general, in the whole stonebrash district, ...
6
Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England
There is hardly any real development of the stonebrash in the county, but
principally cornbrash and forest marble, which latter is worked at Olney, Newport,
Thornton, and Buckingham. The top soil of the forest marble is mostly clay, and
forms ...
7
A Selection of Papers Relative to the County of Lincoln: ...
Conybcarc in his “ Geology of England and \Valcs,” makes use of the term
Stonebrash, as applied to one of the Oolite series; and to me it does convey a
meaning which is intelligible, and implies the idea of a Brashy Stone. Our upper
beds are ...
Lincolnshire Topographical Society, Lincoln, England, 1843
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The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England ...
Some good stonebrash land is found in the neighbourhood of Chipping Norton
and Burford, but about the Bartons, the Enstones, the Astons, and Sandford the
soil varies from a cold and weak sand to a stiff ungrateful clay. The chief part of
the ...
9
The Rural Cyclopedia, Or A General Dictionary of ...
Straw. Straw. Chaff. Chaff Inches. 1 Hopeton, Stonebrash and clay, 36 1107-2
204-3 1311-5 2 Hopeton, Stonebrash, 38 986-8 206-1 1192-9 3 April Wheat,
Stonebrash, . 28 996-8 278-5 1275-3 4 Spring Wheat, Bristol Red, Calcareous
clav, .
10
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Zoology, Botany, ...
Stonebrash, Inferior Oolite 7*. to 20s. 2. Stonebrash, Great Oolite 14s. to 25s. 3.
Cornbrash 20s. to 40s. This great difference in the productive powers of soils,
which a cursory examination only would lead to the conclusion were nearly alike
in ...
Sir William Jardine, 1853
