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Identifier: freefarmerinfree00robe (find matches)
Title: A free farmer in a free state: a study of rural life and industry and agricultural politics in an agricultural country
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Robertson Scott, J. W. (John William), 1866-1962
Subjects: Agriculture -- Netherlands Peasantry -- Netherlands Agricultural laws and legislation -- Netherlands
Publisher: London : W. Heinemann
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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r wetpeaty bog covered with a vegetation of tufted grass, bracken, heather,and stunted birches and pines, practically without value for agricultureA company is engaged in digging the peat. It passes through a disin-tegrator and the coarser part of the result is pressed up into the well-known bales of peat moss litter. The dust and smaller fragments arereduced to a still finer powder and used as an absorbent for molasses inorder to make a cattle food. These Yorkshire litter works had been founded on Dutch models,and were for a time largely worked by Dutch labour, but the labourersfirst brought over, like the drainage adventurers two centuries ago,have been merged in the country population and the workers are nowEnglish enough. After the peat has been cut out a bank is built roundthe area to enclose about 200 acres and a connexion is made with thewarping drain, a straight channel which leads to the estuary, with power-ful sluice gates at the entrance. At high tide the sluices are opened
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ERS, CANALS AND RAILWAYS als are shown, and nothing of the remarkableP. stand for the sites of the Haarlemmer,, now farm and market garden land SKETCH MAPS NETHERLANDS The cxircme length at ihc couniry ii about as far uriom London to KicIct; theditMncc from lUe Hook to UcTiniuiy nbout the lame as rrora llic Mctroi>»lii ■ Rriiiol

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  • booksubject:Agriculture____Netherlands
  • booksubject:Peasantry____Netherlands
  • booksubject:Agricultural_laws_and_legislation____Netherlands
  • bookpublisher:London___W__Heinemann
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  • booksponsor:MSN
  • bookleafnumber:437
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