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Article: Perfection won Royal award
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- Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
- Article date:
- January 9, 2008
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Acurious help in fattening beasts was a lean horse or two kept
with them, for the beasts delighted to feed with them. Fattening
cattle were to have first bite at the pastures, then draught cattle
and then sheep. After Midsummer, when there is an extraordinary
sweetness in the grass, suffer the cattle to eat the grass closer
till Lammas (August 1).
Landlords derived a good income from their woods and coppices. An
acre of underwood of 21 years' growth was at this time (1635) worth
pounds25, of 12 years' growth pounds5.10s, but on many of the best
lands it was only cut every 30 years.
A country gentleman could keep up a good establishment on an
income which today would compel him to live ...