...exhibiting on its various soils the treatment which experience has taught in the management of »tiff clays, fens, warp-land, sands, wolds, and heath. In...above the vale, stretches a tract of dry turnip land running north and south of the city about 40 miles, and still known as Lincoln-heath. Nearly parallel...

...and heath. In this county, too, has chiefly risen into prominence that system of compen- f. sation to the outgoing tenant for unexhausted improvements,...the county from the south, an extensive district of feu land is traversed, reaching up to the city of Lincoln, where, on the summit of the hill, rise the...

...Lincoln presents many features of interest to the agriculturist. It embraces a great variety of soils and modes of cultivation, varying from the richest pastures...the county from the south, an extensive district of fen land is traversed, reaching up to the city of Lincoln, where, on the summit of the hill, rise the...

...to agriculture, we can do no better than record John Caird's statement in 1851 that the system was 'believed by many to have been the foundation of the agricultural progress of Lincolnshire '. ' The evolution of a local custom pregnant with such immense consequences for the farming community...