The modern improvements in agriculture. [electronic resource] : Containing the principles of tillage and vegetation, and present practice of the most skilful husbandmen in the culture of corn and pulse, and of the grasses, plants and roots for feeding cattle: and a comparative view of their uses and advantages, from authentic experiments made by many ingenious persons, particularly in Britain and Ireland. Likewise the most approved methods of watering land, draining, and other valuable improvements. Illustrated with copper-plates, and descriptions of several new instruments; one a horse-hoe in vented by the author, of very general use, for hoeing all crops planted in rows, with wide or narrow spaces. Part I. By a Practiser of both the old and new husbandry.