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  • I had seen the sheaved corn carrying in the golden fields as I came down to the river; and the rosy farmer, watching his labouring men in the saddle on his cob, had told me how he had reaped his two hundred and sixty acres of long-strawed corn last week, and how a better week's work he had never done in all his days.

    The Uncommercial Traveller 1861

  • I had seen the sheaved corn carrying in the golden fields as I came down to the river; and the rosy farmer, watching his labouring-men in the saddle on his cob, had told me how he had reaped his two hundred and sixty acres of long-strawed corn last week, and how a better week's work he had never done in all his days.

    The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841

  • The proportion of grain to straw is greater in short than in long-strawed wheat.

    Essays in Natural History and Agriculture Thomas Garnett 1838

  • It will bear highly manuring without lodging, and with much less liability to mildew, than a long-strawed wheat.

    Essays in Natural History and Agriculture Thomas Garnett 1838

  • As it very rarely lodges, it will be far better suited to the reaping-machine than a long-strawed wheat; and no doubt other advantages will occur to the minds of experienced agriculturists.

    Essays in Natural History and Agriculture Thomas Garnett 1838

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