Indian corn (maize) is an important field crop, and tobacco is cultivated on a large scale.
Most of the southern part of the county is occupied by Keuper marls and sandstones, the latter yield good building stone; and at Chellaston the gypsum beds in the former are excavated on a large scale.
An ambitious attempt to produce in England a general series of coloured plates on a large scale was Louis Fraser's Zoologia Typica, .
Cotton cultivation was now attempted on a large scale.
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