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I believe they are thought to be low ; and upon the whole, 1vibram five fingers 4s. or 15s. per acre may be taken as about the average ; still I have no hesitation in saying that, under proper culture, very much of the land is capable of paying a much higher rent than is now paid for it."Having now arrived at the Vale of Glamorgan, it would be well just vibram five fingers sale to mention some of the distinguishing features between the East and the counties just quitted. The general style of husbandry resembles that of England. vibram fivefingers Waggons are common, implements good, fine Hereford cattle and large sheep in abundance, and the young stock are sheltered during the winter. The wheat-sheaves when bound are placed in stocks, while barley and oats are gathered in a loose state, and so taken to the ricks; the humidity of the air being less, this can be successfully practised. The hay is made carefully, being regularly cocked up at night, and kept fresh and green by this judicious treatment. five fingers shoes The large waggon-cocks vibram five fingers , perhaps, the finest istrict and as well farmed as any in South Wales. Although Mr. Davies mentions a few courses connected with turnips, it appears that the wheat, or fallow succeeded by many corn-crops, was the principal; and sometimes, skechers shape ups on the strong soils, wheat and beans for six years, and laid down for as many years. The fences, which were described "as capable of affording harbour for elephants," are now for the most part of moderate size, while the ricks still retain their superiority in neatness of construction. The entire absence of any system of cropping, so often mentioned, is here the same, and therefore renders the description of the improvement of its agriculture so difficult and complicated. After summing up all that I saw and the various information I obtained, it appears that vibram five fingers shoes some turnips are now grown by all farmers, vibram five fingers kso that wheat is taken on ley; spring wheat or barley succeeds turnips; that beans and oats are seldom grown, summer fallows are becoming rare, and the grass-seeds lie from one to four years. Those farmers who still cherish the remnants of the old system, take three or four corn-crops in succession, while the more enlightened are satisfied with two at the most. A portion of the turnips is usually consumed on the land by the sheep or young cattle. The Glamorgans are principally kept, and many are stall-fed on hay and turnips at four years old. The yearlings are fed in sheds during the winter ; in the day some turn them out to eat turnips in the fields, and take them in at night, while the two years old stock are treated in the same manner, but lodge in an open straw-yard. The Hereford cattle are more plentiful nearer Cardiff, and the general farming is of a very superior description in that locality. The labourers receive capital wages—from 10s. to 13s. per week, or from 10/. to 151. a-year, and board and lodging. The miners at their task-work earn from 18s. to 40*. per week. Few leases are now granted. The land in the Vale is injured by the large quantities of hay and straw sent to the mineral districts, the loss of which, in almost every instance, is inadequately supplied by manure not made on the farm.From the Brecknock Beacons Mr. Davies observed that the fallows in the Vale of the Ush were extremely numerous ; and he expre*ses a wish that instead of " such ruddy fields, they were clothed with luxuriant turnips." It certainly does appear strange that such a porous silicious soil, in a comparatively dry climate, should have been so long treated with a summer fallow, which rendered the land insufficiently solid for wheat. It is supposed that, in the original deposition of soil in this beautiful valley, water washed much of the clayey portion into Monmouth, and thus left the reddish sand to form the principal ingredient of the soil. The following were the principal courses in 1814:
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