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by webweaver
30 Dec 2021, 17:23
Forum: Agricultural history
Topic: Identification sought of insect pest attacking cabbages etc in 1803
Replies: 1
Views: 14480

Re: Identification sought of insect pest attacking cabbages etc in 1803

It sounds like an aphid - funny how they don't actually say how big it is! Have you tried LIBRAL? I must say that nothing actually leapt out at me, but you can search for two words such as cabbage and insect within a specified number of words, e.g,. "cabbage insect ~10" would be look for cabbage and...
by webweaver
22 Nov 2021, 19:26
Forum: Agricultural history
Topic: Bull Breed - Corvo, Azores
Replies: 5
Views: 27936

Re: Bull Breed - Corvo, Azores

Ah, I see, Alan. Thanks for, er, clarifying that!
C.
by webweaver
22 Nov 2021, 17:27
Forum: Agricultural history
Topic: Bull Breed - Corvo, Azores
Replies: 5
Views: 27936

Re: Bull Breed - Corvo, Azores

Hi Sara
Could you say what the name of the breed was? That might give more of a clue!
Catherine
by webweaver
24 Oct 2021, 18:20
Forum: Agricultural history
Topic: Help with information on farm machinery
Replies: 7
Views: 34478

Re: Help with information on farm machinery

I've also received this on the Rural Museums Network: Engine powered horse drawn mower The engine on the mower is a Petter of Yeovil of about 1.5 horsepower Looks to me as if a clever farmer/engineer has made a conversion as the engine appears to be very heavy. The engine also appears to have no sil...
by webweaver
23 Oct 2021, 18:35
Forum: Agricultural history
Topic: Help with information on farm machinery
Replies: 7
Views: 34478

Re: Help with information on farm machinery

I have a reply from the Rural Museums Network: Hello the mower may be a bamford judging from it's toolbox very late production to be on rubber tyres. I have a couple one an Albion without its engine, a Honda had been cobbled on to it, also a bamlett with a French manufactured engine the name escapes...
by webweaver
23 Oct 2021, 09:42
Forum: Agricultural history
Topic: Help with information on farm machinery
Replies: 7
Views: 34478

Re: Help with information on farm machinery

No need to apologise. This is what the Forum is for. Let's see if anyone knows...
by webweaver
18 Jul 2021, 20:10
Forum: Agricultural history
Topic: Where are Jonas Webb's notebooks now?
Replies: 3
Views: 28453

Re: Where are Jonas Webb's notebooks now?

I don't know but there is a painting of Jonas Webb in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-a ... ridgeshire
by webweaver
06 Jul 2021, 16:18
Forum: Agricultural history
Topic: MAFF leaflet from late 60s/early 70s
Replies: 2
Views: 23972

Re: MAFF leaflet from late 60s/early 70s

We have now uploaded three versions of the MAF (and MAFF) sectional lists to LIBRAL.
Web Weaver
by webweaver
25 May 2021, 15:21
Forum: Agricultural history
Topic: MAFF leaflet from late 60s/early 70s
Replies: 2
Views: 23972

MAFF leaflet from late 60s/early 70s

Spottydog posted this in the Read this First forum and I have re-posted it here; I'm trying to track down a MAFF information leaflet from the late 60s/early 70s for an article I am writing. A colleague showed it to me many years ago, but he no longer has it. I think it was urging farmers to take up ...
by webweaver
17 May 2021, 17:59
Forum: Agricultural history
Topic: Painted Wagons
Replies: 6
Views: 41554

Re: Painted Wagons

Hi David I don't know which Victorian Farm you are volunteering at, but I wonder whether they are a member of the Rural Museums Network. If so, it might be worth them posting your question on the RMN's Discussion Group. Ask them about this and if you don't get a positive response, I can post your qu...