 | Adam Smith - 1809 - 372 pages
...the different branches of agriculture. They make scarce any manure for their corn fields, he says ; but when one piece of ground has been exhausted by...cattle, are allowed to wander through the woods and other uncultivated grounds, where th.ey are half-starv. rd; having long ago extirpated almost all the... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1812
...they clear and cultivate another piece BOOK piece of frefh land ; and when that is exhaufted, _*-__ . proceed to a third. Their cattle are allowed to wander through the woods and other uncultivated grounds, where they are half-ftarved ; having long ago extirpated almoft all the... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1812 - 520 pages
...continual cropping, they clear and cultivate another BOOK piece of frefh land ; and when that is exhaufted, proceed to a third. Their cattle are allowed to wander through the woods and other uncultivated grounds, where they are half-ftarved ; having long ago extirpated almoft all the... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1822 - 522 pages
...manure for their corn-fields, he says ; but when one piece of ground has been exhausted by continually cropping, they clear and cultivate another piece of...cattle are allowed to wander through the woods and other uncultivated grounds, where they are half-starved ; having long ago extirpated almost all the... | |
 | Robert Bailey Thomas - 1860 - 628 pages
...a notion that it would kill them." A Swedish traveller, who visited the colony in 1740, write*, ** Their cattle are allowed to wander through the woods...are half starved, having long ago extirpated almost lull the animal grasses by cropping them too early in the spring, before they had time l to form their... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1858 - 772 pages
...the different branches of agriculture. They make scarce any manure for their corn fields, he says ; but when one piece of ground has been exhausted by...cattle are allowed to wander through the woods and other uncultivated grounds, where they are half-starved ; having long ago extirpated almost all the... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1859 - 546 pages
...scarce any mimure for their corn-fields: but when one piece of ground has been exhausted by constant cropping, they clear and cultivate another piece of...cattle are allowed to wander through the woods and other uncultivated grounds, where they are half-starved — having long ago extirpated almost all the... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1860 - 528 pages
...constant cropping, they clear and cultivate another piece of fresh bind; and, when that is exhansted, proceed to a third. Their cattle are allowed to wander through the woods and other uncultivated grounds, whore they are half-starved — having long ago extirpated almost all the... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1869 - 576 pages
...different branches of agriculture. They make scarce any manure for their own corn-fields, he says ; but when one piece of ground has been exhausted by...that is exhausted, proceed to a third. Their cattle arc allowed to wander through tho woods and other uncultivated grounds, where they are half-starved... | |
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They make scarce any manure for their corn fields, he says; but when one piece of ground has been exhausted by continual cropping, they clear and cultivate another piece of fresh land; and when that is exhausted, proceed to a third. Their cattle are allowed... 
