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Agriculture - Animal industry - Early works to 1800
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Profit and pleasure united; or, the husbandman's magazine. Being a most exact treatise of bulls, oxen, cows, calves, horses, ... with directions for their breeding ... Together with easie plain rules and methods for improving arrable and pasture-lands. To which is added, the art of hawking, hunting, angling, and the noble recreation of ringing. By J. Smith Gent.
Smith, John, active 1684-1704.Date: 1704- Books
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A collection for the improvement of husbandry and trade. Consisting of many valuable materials relating to corn, cattle, coals, hops, wool, &c. With a compleat catalogue of the several sorts of earths, and their proper product; the best sorts of manure for each; with the art of draining and flooding of lands; as also full and exact histories of trades, as malting, brewing, &c. the description and structure of instruments for husbandry, and carriages, with the manner of their imrovement; an account of the rivers of England, &c. and how far they may be made navigable; of weights and measures, of woods, cordage, and metals; of building and stowage the vegetation of plants, &c. with many other useful particulars, communicated by several eminent members of the Royal Society, to the collector, John Houghton, F.R.S. Now revised, corrected, and published, with a preface and useful indexes, by Richard Bradley, F.R.S. and professor of botany in the University of Cambridge. In three volumes.
Houghton, John, 1640-1705.Date: M,DCC,XXVII. [i.e. 1727 - 1728]