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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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The new complete English farmer; or, the whole body of husbandry made perfectly easy. Containing what every farmer ought to know and practise, in all the various useful branches of husbandry. Comprehending, among all the several articles treated of in this work, full directions and instructions, under the following heads, viz. The cultivation and proper management of wheat and barley. The culture of oats and rye. The whole art and management of all the different kinds of grass, and of making hay. Full description of the different soils, and of manuring and ploughing land. Instructions respecting the farmer's 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. Likewise several excellent receipts to cure the different disorders they are subject to. The best and most approved method of rearing pigs, fattening swine, and chusing the best sort for breeding, and for curing all their disorders. Directions for breeding rabbits to the best advantage. The whole art of rearing and managing fowls, ducks, geese, turkies, and pigeons, to make them turn out profitable to the farmer, with the choicest receipts to cure their several distempers. The whole management of bees, both for profit and pleasure. The cultivation of turnips, beans, pease, trees, hemp, and flax, &c. &c. &c. Together with other useful articles, too numerous to mention in this title page. The whole carefully revised, corrected, and improved, by Mr. William Hogg, farmer, near Lynn, in Norfolk. Assisted by several experienced gentlemen and farmers, who have made agriculture, &c. their particular study for many years. Embellished with an elegant frontispiece.
Hogg, William.Date: [1780?]- 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]- Books
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Reflections upon the evil effects of an increasing population, upon the present high price of provisions, particularly corn: Upon the Bounty Act, & Upon the Propriety of General Inclosures; In which a Mode is suggested Of relieving the present Necessities of the Poor, Upon the Principles of Equity. To Which is Added, an Appendix, Containing some Remarks upon the Subject of Tythes; Further Observations upon Population; and Animadversions Upon some late Publications on the Present Scarcity. By Edward Gardner.
Gardner, Edward, active 18th century.Date: 1800