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The complete English farmer: Or, Husbandry made perfectly easy, in all its useful branches, containing what every farmer ought to know and practice. Among the various articles treated of in this work, are the following, viz. The management and quality of the different kinds of grass, and making hay. Description of the different sods and of manuring and ploughing land. The cultivation and management of wheat and barley. The culture of oats and rye. Of the farmers stock, &c. The best methods of breeding and rearing Colts, managing horses and mares, and of curing their numerous diseases. The art of rearing calves and lambs, together with the best methods of managing bulls, oxen, cows and sheep, to make them turn out to the greatest advantage. Also several excellent receipts to cure the different disorders they are subject to. The best and most approved method or rearing pigs, fattening swine, and chosing the best sort for breeding and for curing all their disorders. Of breeding rabbits to the best advantage. The whole art of rearing and managing fowls, ducks, goose, tuckies and pigeons, to make them turn out profitable to the farmer, with choice receipts to cure their several distempers. The management of bees, both for profits and pleasure. The cultivation of turnips, beans, peas, tares, flax, plums, &c. &c. &c. And other useful articles, too numerous to mention in a title page. By George Cooke, farmer, at West-End, in Herfordshire.
Cooke, George.Date: [1770?]- Books
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Enclosures, A cause of improved agriculture, of plenty and cheapness of provisions, of population, and of both private and national wealth; being an examination of two pamphlets, entitled, the one, A political enquiry into the consequences of enclosing waste lands, and the Cause of the present high Price of Butcher's Meat, &c. The other, Cursory remarks upon enclosures, by a country farmer; together with Some slight observations upon the Report of the London committee, appointed the 16th of July, 1786, to consider the causes of the present high prices of provisions. By the Rev. J. Howlett, Vicar of Great Dunmow, Essex.
Howlett, John, 1731-1804.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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A general treatise of agriculture, both philosophical and practical; displaying the arts of husbandry and gardening: in two parts. Part I. Of husbandry; Treats of the Nature of the Soil, Air, and Situation proper for the Production of Vegetables; the different Methods of Improving Lands; the Manner of Planting and Raising Timber; the Stocking of Farms with Cattle, Poultry, Fish, Bees, Grass, Grain, &c. with Estimates of the Profits arising thereon, &c. Part II. Of gardening; Treats of the Circulation of the Sap in Vegetables; the Generation of Plants, and their Distribution into Genera; the different Kinds and particular Management of Fruit and Fruit-Trees; the Methods of Grafting, Inarching, and Inoculating; the Dispositions of Gardens in General; the Cultivation and Improvement of the Kitchen and Pleasure Gardens; the Manner of managing Exotic Plants and Flowers, and naturalizing them to our Climate; together with an Account of Stoves, Artificial Heats, &c. Originally written by R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F.R.S. And now not only corrected and properly methodised, but adapted to the present practice, and improved with the late Theories, in many large Notes, wherein the several Methods of Culture, and the different Systems of Botany and Vegetation, according to the most approved Writers of the present Period upon these Subjects, are delivered. With a Compleat Index of all the Matters contained in the Book. Illustrated with twenty copper-plates.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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Rural improvements: or, essays on the most rational methods of improving estates; accomodated to the soil, climate, and circumstances of England: In which it is clearly demonstrated, that the Landed Estates of this Kingdom may with certainty, and at a very moderate Expence, be increased to double their present Value. The Method of doing which is clearly pointed out, and evinced from undeniable Principles, deduced from a Series of real Practice and Experience. Essay First; Shewing the Improvements that respect the Occupier. Essay Second; The Improvements that respect the Land-Owner. The whole interspersed with a Variety of interesting Reflections and Observations, on the Poor, Poor-Laws, high Prices of Provisions, Labour, decay of Foreign Trade, Population, Corn-Trade, Bounty on Exportation; with rational and proper Measures respecting the same. Also, Remarks On Messrs. Harte, Tull, Miller, Chateauvieux, Compleat English Farmer, Young, Peters, Weston, &c. By a land owner.
Wimpey, Joseph, 1739-1808.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Books
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Chiltern and vale farming explained, according to the latest improvements. Necessary for all landlords and tenants of either ploughed-grass, or wood-grounds. Containing, I. The Nature and Improvement of the four Clays, four Loams, four Gravels, four Chalks and three Sands, with an Account of the Nature and Use of Stones in the common Fields. II. The Nature and Improvement of the Oak, shewing seven several ways to obtain a Wood thereof; also of the Beech, the manner of extracting its Sap after three different Methods for its long duration. The Ash, Elm, Witch-Elm, Hornbeam, Maple, Lime, Sycamore, Horse and Sweet Chesnut, Walnut, Hazel, White-Elder, and the Case of the Black-Cherry. And also of Asp, Sallow, Poplar, Alder, and other Aquaticks. III. Of the Excellency of the Whitelamas-Wheat, and all other Wheats, Barley, Rye, Oats, Peas, Beans, Thetches and Tills; with a Copy of two Letters from William Hayton Esq; of Clerkenwell, and the Author's Answer concerning the Propagating of Wheat and Rye in Northumberland. Also an Estimate of the Loss and Profit of Crops for the Year 1732. IV. Of Natural and Artificial Grasses, being Remarks on a late Author's Writings on Trefoyl, Clover, St. Foyne, Lucern, Rye-Grass and Cow-Grass: Also a method how to save the difficult Seed of Lucern. V. Of the Blights and Blasts, their Origin and Nature, their Mischiefs and Preventions. VI. Of Ploughing in general, being a full Explanation of broad Land-Ploughing, Bouting-up, Thoroughing down, Four-Thoroughing, Hacking or Combing; also the Vale way of Ridging up and Casting down: With Descriptions and Dimensions of the Wheel-Ploughs, also of the Foot, Creeper, Kentish, Newmarket, and a New-Invented light Plough that does almost double work with the same Horses that draw a single one. Vii. Of Sowing in general. Viii. Of Seeds, and to know the Good from the Bad. IX. Of Weeds in general, their Mischiefs and Cures. X. Of an Invaluable Liquor never before published, to steep Grain in for Sowing. XI. Of a new Method of Horse-Houghing, its Advantages and Disadvantages. XII. Of Turneps, and how to save them from the Slug, Fly and Caterpillar. XIII. Its several Uses on Ploughed and Sward-Grounds, and of the Quantities that may be necessarily consumed in one Year, by a fifty Pound a year Farmer. XIV. Of Manures in general, their Nature and Uses on proper Soils, &c. By William Ellis, Of Little Gaddesden in Hertfordshire, Author of The Practical Farmer, or Hertfordshire Husbandman.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: [1733]