Cottage Economy: Containing Information Relative to the Brewing of Beer, Making of Bread, Keeping of Cows, Pigs, Bees, Ewes, Goats, Poultry and Rabbits, and Relative to Other Matters Deemed Useful in the Conducting of the Affairs of a Labourer's Family; to which are Added, Instructions Relative to the Selecting, the Cutting and the Bleaching of the Plants of English Grass and Grain, for the Purpose of Making Hats and Bonnets |
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... half of his earnings , was what no industry and care could make head against . I do not pretend , that this system was adopted by design . But , no matter for the cause ; such was the effect . 8. Better times , however , are approaching ...
... half of his earnings , was what no industry and care could make head against . I do not pretend , that this system was adopted by design . But , no matter for the cause ; such was the effect . 8. Better times , however , are approaching ...
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... make us cease to wonder at seeing labourers ' children with dirty linen and holes in the heels of their stockings ? Observe , too , that the time thus spent , is , one half of # it , the best time of the day . BREWING .
... make us cease to wonder at seeing labourers ' children with dirty linen and holes in the heels of their stockings ? Observe , too , that the time thus spent , is , one half of # it , the best time of the day . BREWING .
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... half an ounce every morning and evening . I allow for each mess half a pint of milk . And I allow three pounds of the red dirty sugar to each pound of tea . The account of expenditure would then stand very high ; but to these must be ...
... half an ounce every morning and evening . I allow for each mess half a pint of milk . And I allow three pounds of the red dirty sugar to each pound of tea . The account of expenditure would then stand very high ; but to these must be ...
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... half hogshead , with one end taken out for a tun tub , about four nine gallon casks , and a couple of eighteen gallon casks . This is an ample supply of utensils , each of which will last with proper care a good long lifetime or two ...
... half hogshead , with one end taken out for a tun tub , about four nine gallon casks , and a couple of eighteen gallon casks . This is an ample supply of utensils , each of which will last with proper care a good long lifetime or two ...
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... half feverish thirst at the pump or the brook . To the wretched tea kettle he has to return at night with legs hardly sufficient to maintain him ; and thus he makes his miserable progress towards that death which he finds ten or fifteen ...
... half feverish thirst at the pump or the brook . To the wretched tea kettle he has to return at night with legs hardly sufficient to maintain him ; and thus he makes his miserable progress towards that death which he finds ten or fifteen ...
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acre amongst bacon bake barley bees better boil bonnets bread brewing bushel of malt bushel of wheat cabbages called cask clean colour common Connecticut cost cottage Crested Dog's-tail cutting and bleaching drink eight England expense farmers feed Fiorin fire flitches flitches of bacon flour four gallons garden give goats grain half heap Hertfordshire hive hops inches Italian Italy keep labour labourer's family Leghorn liquor living loaves manure mashing-tub matter means milk mill miserable Miss Woodhouse never observe Paragraph pigs plants Poa Pratensis potatoes pounds pounds weight public house quantity quarter rods of ground scalding seed shillings small beer Society sorts of grass stick suppose Swedish turnips taken taste thing tun-tub utensils weather week winter wort yeast Yellow Oat-grass young