The practical farmer [electronic resource] : or, the Hertfordshire husbandman: containing many new improvements in husbandry. I. Of Meliorating the different Soils, and all other Branches of Business relating to a Farm. II. Of the Nature of the several Sorts of Wheat, and the Soil proper for each. III. Of the great Improvement of Barley, by Brineing the Seed, after an entire new Method, and without Expence. IV. Of increasing Crops of Pease and Beans by Horse-Houghing. V. Of Trefoyle, Clover, Lucerne, and other Foreign Graffes. VI. A new Method to Improve Land at a small Expence, with Burnt Clay. Vii. Of the Management of Cows, Sheep, Suckling of Calves, Lambs, &c. with Means to prevent, and Remedies to cure Rottenness in Sheep. Viii. How to keep Pigeons and Tame Rabbits to Advantage. IX. A new Method of Planting and Improving Fruit-Trees in Ploughed-Fields. By William Ellis, Of Little Gaddesden, in Hertfordshire.
1732
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The practical farmer [electronic resource] : or, the Hertfordshire husbandman: containing many new improvements in husbandry. I. Of Meliorating the different Soils, and all other Branches of Business relating to a Farm. II. Of the Nature of the several Sorts of Wheat, and the Soil proper for each. III. Of the great Improvement of Barley, by Brineing the Seed, after an entire new Method, and without Expence. IV. Of increasing Crops of Pease and Beans by Horse-Houghing. V. Of Trefoyle, Clover, Lucerne, and other Foreign Graffes. VI. A new Method to Improve Land at a small Expence, with Burnt Clay. Vii. Of the Management of Cows, Sheep, Suckling of Calves, Lambs, &c. with Means to prevent, and Remedies to cure Rottenness in Sheep. Viii. How to keep Pigeons and Tame Rabbits to Advantage. IX. A new Method of Planting and Improving Fruit-Trees in Ploughed-Fields. By William Ellis, Of Little Gaddesden, in Hertfordshire.
Uniform Title
Practical farmer. Part 1
Edition
The second edition; with additions, which those who bought the former, may have gratis.
Publication Details
London : printed for Weaver Bickerton, at Lord Bacon's Head, without Temple-Bar; Thomas Astley, at the Rose; and Stephen Austen, at the Angel and Bible, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]
Place of Publication or Printing
Great Britain -- England -- London.
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English
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171,[5]p. ; 8⁰.
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The ornaments are those used by Henry Woodfall.
P.98 misnumbered 8.
Price from imprint: price Two Shillings, Stitch'd.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
P.98 misnumbered 8.
Price from imprint: price Two Shillings, Stitch'd.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
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English Short Title Catalog, T16818.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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