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Fertilizers - Great Britain - Early works to 1800
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Idea agriculturæ. The principles of vegetation asserted and defended. Being an essay on the theory and practice of husbandry: Proceeding on the three noted mediums of improvement, viz. marle, lime, and shells, principally relating to the Isle of Anglesey. With rules and directions to find out the latter (wonderful in fertilizing the barrenest land) on other shores of Great-Britain and Ireland, where the like beds of broken shells, the winnowings of the sea, must naturally lye, if the like vast plenty of shellfish, do breed on the coasts, and in all probability, will be found, if they be fought for, according to these directions. By Henry Rowlands, vicar of Llanjdan, in the Isle of Anglesey; author of Mona antiqua: wrote in the year 1704.
Rowlands, Henry, 1655-1723.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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The practice of farming and husbandry in all sorts of soils, according to the latest improvements, very useful for all landlords and tenants, of ploughed, grass, or wood lands. 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, witchelm, horn-beam, maple, lime, sycamore, horse and sweet chesnut, walnut, hazel, white-elder, and the case of the black-cherry. And also of the asp, sallow, poplar, alder, and other aquaticks. ... 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 or 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 draws 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-hoeing, its advantages and disadvantages. XII Of turneps, and how to save them from the slug, fly and caterpillar. XIII. Salt, 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.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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A dissertation on the true Cythisus of the ancients. Proving that the Medicago, or Cythisus Maranthoe, (not the Bastard Sena, as asserted by a late Author) Is the Plant that was held in so great Esteem among the Romans. Also that it may be successfully made Use of for the Improvement of the most dry, barren, hilly Land, as Lucerne has been for that which is moister and nearer a Level; and in every respect answer the Excellent Character given of it by Columella, Pliny, Virgil, &c. In a Letter to a Nobleman, who favour'd this Enquiry. To which is added, An Account of the Great Profits which arise (if carefully managed) from sowing the Lucerne, and Burning of Clay, the bad Success of which in some few Places, may be entirely attributed to the Unskillfulness of those appointed to manage it. Also a Catalogue of the Best Seeds, the Season of sowing them, and the Time of their Persection. By Stephen Switzer.
Switzer, Stephen, 1682-1745.Date: [1735]