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The results of a quick newspaper search.

The Chester Chronicle on 29 Sept. 1843 reported that the annual meeting of Denbighshire and Flintshire Agricultural Society had been shown an Annan Plough. This suggests novelty, but it also appears to be the only reference in the newspapers in 1840-1844!

LIBRAL would like to enlarge the run of its volumes of Dairy World. The BL holdings run from 1898 through to 1939: one assumes that that is the total period the journal published. MERL at Reading has a set from 1912 to 1939. Can anyone point us to a run which we can borrow to scan? If any survive, t...

It is a very intractable problem as there is no international trade in cattle and so no customs figures. No one attempted to measure the size of the internal domestic market. The most recent discussion will in Steve Broadberry et al, British Economic Growth (2015) although this may well not be fine-...

I think that there are two possible reasons. The first is that these are tree which stood in parkland. You don't say what the current land use is, but it is not uncommon to see standard trees in arable fields. The alternative, as you suggest, is that they mark the lines of hedges which have been rem...

Dear Professor Stampfer, Webweaver has pointed out to me that no one has answered your query, which is a good one, and so like a fool I will plunge in. I am a little handicapped in that I am on holiday and so have no access to my books, so I could perhaps add more to this when I get home. I fear tha...

I think that the interest in pests might reflect George Ordish, who was long gone before I was involved in the Society but I think I am right in saying was in the pest control business - perhaps totally misrecollected, but fruit tree sprays comes to mind. Ted Collins may well know.

I am afraid that I am not sure that the book you are hoping for exists. The whole area is, to the best of my knowledge, unexplored, so it is into the grey literature. You might find something of use in a report of 1964: Committee of inquiry into fatstock and carcase meat marketing and distribution c...

Leave open the possibility that it derives from a surname.

Richard

At last! An easy question on the forum! The lady in question is Louisa/Louise Cresswell who published an autobiography (which it is claimed the estate tried to buy all of the copies of). She published as Mrs Gerard Cresswell, Eighteen years on the Sandringham estate (1887). The most recent account i...

Jane Roberts: see what you can find on www.bookfinder.com (which you might already have done).