A course of experimental agriculture [electronic resource] : containing an exact register of all the business transacted during five years on near three hundred acres of various soils; including a variety of experiments on the cultivation of all sorts of grain and pulse, both in the old and ne methods; the raising large crops of turneps, cabbages, carrots, potatoes, &c. and several plants not usually cultivated, as food for cattle; and the application of them to feeding or fattening of oxen, cows, horses, hogs, sheep, &c. Also the management of the artificial grasses, particularly Clover, Lucerne, Sainfoine, Burnet, &c. in the Broad-Cast, Drilling, and Transplanting Methods; and their Uses in Feeding several Sorts of Cattle. The Culture of Madder. A particular Comparison between the Old and New Husbandry. The Management of Pasture Lands. On Ploughing, Harrowing, and other Operations of Tillage, relative to the Season, Number, Depth, &c. On the general Feeding and Fattening of Cattle on various Articles of Food; the Expences, Profit, Quantity eat, &c. The Implements of Husbandry, their Defects, Improvements, &c. With other subjects of importance to the country gentleman and farmer. The whole stated in near two thousand original experiments. In two volumes.
1770
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A course of experimental agriculture [electronic resource] : containing an exact register of all the business transacted during five years on near three hundred acres of various soils; including a variety of experiments on the cultivation of all sorts of grain and pulse, both in the old and ne methods; the raising large crops of turneps, cabbages, carrots, potatoes, &c. and several plants not usually cultivated, as food for cattle; and the application of them to feeding or fattening of oxen, cows, horses, hogs, sheep, &c. Also the management of the artificial grasses, particularly Clover, Lucerne, Sainfoine, Burnet, &c. in the Broad-Cast, Drilling, and Transplanting Methods; and their Uses in Feeding several Sorts of Cattle. The Culture of Madder. A particular Comparison between the Old and New Husbandry. The Management of Pasture Lands. On Ploughing, Harrowing, and other Operations of Tillage, relative to the Season, Number, Depth, &c. On the general Feeding and Fattening of Cattle on various Articles of Food; the Expences, Profit, Quantity eat, &c. The Implements of Husbandry, their Defects, Improvements, &c. With other subjects of importance to the country gentleman and farmer. The whole stated in near two thousand original experiments. In two volumes.
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London : printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, M.DCC.LXX. [1770]
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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English
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2 v. ; 4⁰.
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Dedication signed: Arthur Young.
With a half-title to each vol.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
With a half-title to each vol.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
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English Short Title Catalog, T80851.
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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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