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A new treatise of husbandry, gardening, and other matters relating to rural affairs: shewing, a plain and practical method of improving all sorts of land, viz. meadow, pasture, arable, &c. And of making them produce greater Crops of all Kinds, at much less Expence than it now costs. With Many New, Useful, and Curious Improvements, never before published. The whole founded upon many Years Experience. By Samuel Trowell, Gent. To which are added, Several Letters to Mr. Thomas Liveings, concerning his Compound Manure for Land.
Trowell, Samuel.Date: [1738]- Books
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A new treatise of husbandry, gardening, and other curious matters relating to county affairs: containing, a plain and practical method of improving all sorts of meadow, pasture and arable land, &c. and making them produce greater Crops of all Kinds, and at much less than the present Expence. Under the following Heads: I. Of Wheat, Rye, Oats, Barley, Pease, Beans, and all other Sorts of Grain. II. Turnips, Carrots, Buckwheat, Clover, Hemp, Rape, Flax and Coleseed, &c. III. Weld or Would, Woad or Wade, Madder, Saffron, &c. IV. Meadow, Pasture Grounds, and the different Manner of Feeding Cattle and making other Improvements agreeable to the Soil of the several Counties in Great Britain. V. Hops, Forest and Fruit Trees Vine and Garden Plants of all Sorts. VI. All Kinds of Flowers, Shrubs in general, and Greenhouse Plants. Vii. A Curious Scheme of a Farm, the Annual Expence of it, and its Produce. With Many New, Useful, and Curious Improvements, never before published. The Whole founded upon many Years Experience. By Samuel Trowell, Gent. To which are added, Several Letters to Mr. Thomas Liveings, concerning his Compound Manure for Land, with some Practical Observations thereon.
Trowell, Samuel.Date: 1739- Books
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The modern husbandman, for the month of March, Containing the following Particulars, Viz. I. An Account of sowing Wheat-Seed in March. II. How to improve late-sown Crops of Wheat. III. Several necessary Ways to prepare, sow, and improve, different Sorts of Barley. IV. Of Sowing Oats, Pease, Thetches, and Tills different Ways in March. V. Of Sowing artificial Grass-Seeds in different Manners. VI. A Description of an excellent new-invented Swing-Plough, now in Use for plowing dry Soils. Vii. The Benefit of Rolling Corn and Grass-Grounds in this Month. Viii. The Copy of a Letter for sending Aylesbury pirky Wheat-Seed to a Gentleman, with the Author's Answer to the same. IX. The late Sir John Dalrymple's Character, and the Copy of his first Letter to the Author. X. Copy of a Letter from a very learned Gentleman, with the Author's Answer. XI. An Account of a new-invented; cheap, small Tool, that prepares the finest and most profitable Wheat-Seed, that can be sown; which was invented by an unknown Gentleman, and lately sent to this Author as a Present, who now furnishes the same Sort to any Person that will buy it; being a Tool of great Profit to all Farmers and Gentlemen, who occupy Arable Land, and which will effectually supply the Use of the great Round Wire Worm - Screen, that costs Thirty Pounds. To which are added, Many other Curious and Serviceable Matters, never before published. By William Ellis, A Farmer, of Little Gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M.DCC.XLIV. [1744]- Books
Genetically engineered crops : interim policies, uncertain legislation / Iain E.P. Taylor, editor.
Date: [2007], ©2007- Books
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The farmer's kalendar; or, a monthly directory for all sorts of country business: containing, plain instructions for performing the work of various kinds of farms, in every season of the year. Respecting Particularly The buying, feeding, and selling Live Stock. The whole Culture of Arable Crops. The Management of Grasses. The oeconomical Conduct of the Farm, &c. By an experienced farmer.
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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The guide of reason, or floating ideas of nature, suited to the philosopher, farmer, & mechanic, a miscellany, containing 65 different subjects, viz. Several new Crops and their Management. The First Volume treats chiefly on Agriculture. On raising Indian Corn, which may be brought to Perfection in England. On Siberian Wheat, and its Management. On Dibbling Wheat, as practised in Norfolk, which clears 2l. 10s. per Acre above the common Method. How to stock and manage 150 Acres Farm, so as to clear 400l. a Year. On a general Act to inclose Commons, &c. How to improve them by Crops that will pay the Expence. How to manage Horses in Stables without Litter, as practised in America. By. C. Varlo, Esq. In two volumes, Price 13s. ...
Varlo, Charles, approximately 1725-approximately 1795.Date: 1800- Books
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The farmer's kalendar; or, a monthly directory for all sorts of country business: containing, plain instructions for performing the work of various kinds of farms, in every season of the year, Respecting Particularly The buying, feeding, and selling Live Stock. The whole Culture of Arable Crops. The Management of Grasses. The oeconomical Conduct of the Farm, &c. By an experienced farmer, second edition, greatly enlarged and improved.
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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The farmer's instructor; or, the husbandman and gardener's useful and necessary companion. Being a new treatise of husbandry, gardening, and other curious matters relating to country affairs. Containing A Plain and Practical Method of improving all Sorts of Meadow, Pasture, and Arable Land, &c. and making them produce greater Crops of all Kinds, and at much less than the present Expence. With Many New, Useful, and Curious Improvements, never before Published. First begun by Samuel Trowell, gent. and now compleated with a Supplement to every Chapter on Husbandry; giving an Account how poor Land, not worth above Five Shillings an Acre, may be made to bear as good Crops of Grain, Grass, &c. as the richest, after a very cheap Manner of Performance, by the Use of a New-Invented Excellent Four-Wheel Drill-Plough, which carries on it a Seed-Hopper and a Manure-Hopper, with a little Harrow; all which are so light, that a Man may easily draw it. By William Ellis, Farmer, At Little-Gaddesden, in Hertfordshire.
Trowell, Samuel.Date: 1747- Books
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The essence of agriculture, being a regular system of husbandry, through all its branches; suited to the climate and lands of Ireland. A Table delineated that 150 Acres will clear yearly Four Hundred and Two Pounds sterling; With the author's twelve months tour thro' America: likewise How to raise the valuable Crops; of Tobacco, India-Corn, and Siberian Barley. On Flax, Hemp, Rape and all Grass-Seeds, &c. &c. With an address to the legislature and gentlemen of Ireland. How to levy taxes on luxury, provide for the Poor, &c. &c. &c. In two books, bound in one volume. By C? Varlo, Esq;
Varlo, Charles, approximately 1725-approximately 1795.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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The farmer's instructor; or, the husbandman and gardener's useful and necessary companion. Being a new treatise of husbandry, gardening, and other curious matters relating to country affairs. Containing A Plain and Practical Method of improving all Sorts of Meadow, Pasture, and Arable Land, &c. and making them produce greater Crops of all Kinds, and at much less than the present Expence. Giving an Account how poor Land, not worth above 5 s. an Acre, may be made to bear as good Crops of Grain, Grass, &c. as the richest, at the most reasonable Expence, by a new Manure, and the Use of a New Invented Excellent Four-Wheel-Drill-Plough, and Horse-Break, both so light, that a Man may easily draw either of them, which are here exhibited, and the Uses and Manner of working them fully explained. Also, The Seedsman's Monthly Kalendar, shewing the best and most easy Method for raising and cultivating every Sort of Seed belonging to a Kitchen and Flower-Garden, with necessary Instructions for sowing of Berries, Masts and Seeds, Ever-Greens, Forest-Trees, and such as are proper for improving of Land. With many New, Useful, and Curious Improvements, never before Published. First begun by Samuel Trowell, Gent. and now compleated with a Supplement to every Chapter on Husbandry; by William Ellis, Farmer, At Little Gaddesden, in Hertfordshire.
Trowell, Samuel.Date: 1750- E-journals
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Field crops research
Date: 1978-- Books
Better crops for food.
Symposium on Better Crops for Food (1982 : London, England)Date: 1983- Books
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The modern farmers guide. In two volumes. A new System of Husbandry, from long experience in several Kingdoms; never before made public. With tables shewing the expence and profit of each Crop; how to stock Farms to the best advantage; how the Crops are to follow each other, by way of rotation; and how to maintain the poor well, and lower the poor-cess likewise, Some Hints, humbly offered to the Legislature, on inclosing commons and open town-fields. With Several Plans of new-invented Machines; some valueable Receipts for the Cure of Cattle, &c. &c. To which is prefixed a short Abstract of the author's Life and Travels. By a real farmer. ...
Varlo, Charles, approximately 1725-approximately 1795.Date: M.DCC.LXVIII. [1768]- E-journals
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Industrial crops and products
Date: 1992-- Books
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The country gentleman and farmer's monthly director. Containing necessary instructions for the management and improvement of a farm, in every month of the year. Wherein is directed the Times and Seasons proper for Ploughing and Sowing of all sorts of Corn for Grain; the Planting and Managing of Hops, Liquorice, Madder, Saffron, and such other Crops as stand more than one Year on the Ground. The Times of Planting and Cutting of Coppice or Springs of Wood, and Felling of Timber, the Breeding and Feeding of Poultry, Rabbits, Fish, Swine, and all sorts of Cattle. With several Particulars relating to the Improvement of Bees, never before made publick. By R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]- Books
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The country gentleman and farmer's monthly director. Containing necessary instructions for the management and improvement of a farm, in every month of the year. Wherein is directed the Times and Seasons proper for Ploughing and Sowing of all sorts of Corn or Grain; the Planting and Managing of Hops, Liquorice, Madder, Saffron, and such other Crops as stand more than one Year on the Ground. The Times of Planting and Cutting of Coppice or Springs of Wood, and Felling of Timber; the Breeding and Feeding of Poultry, Rabbits, Fish, Swine, and all sorts of Cattle. With several Particulars relating to the Improvement of Bees, never before made publick. By R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: M.DCC.XXVI. [1726]- Books
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The country gentleman and farmer's monthly director. Containing necessary instructions for the management and improvement of a farm, in every month of the year. Wherein is directed the Times and Seasons proper for Ploughing and Sowing of all sorts of Corn for Grain; the Planting and Managing of Hops, Liquorice, Madder, Saffron, and such other Crops as stand more than one Year on the Ground. The Times of Planting and Cutting of Coppice or Springs of Wood, and Felling of Timber, the Breeding and Feeding of Poultry, Rabbits, Fish, Swine, and all sorts of Cattle. With several Particulars relating to the Improvement of Bees, never before made publick. By R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S. Particularly some Rules for Breeding Pheasants, by a Gentleman: And an Alphabetical Index.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: M.DCC.XXXVI. [1736]- Books
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The land steward's and farmer's assistant: containing the most useful and correct tables for shewing the contents of any piece of land in Acres and Rods, from One Rod to One Hundred in Length, and from Two Feet to Twenty Rods in Breadth. With a Table For the Price of Labour or Crops, from Two Shillings and Sixpence to Twenty Pounds per Acre. To which is Added, The true Method of measuring a Field, and to take the Contents of the Crooks or Bonds. With a Table for the setting of an Acre or Acres of Ground, from One Rod to Eighty Rods in Length. Also, A Table for the Purchase of Leases, from One Year to One Hundred. With an easy Method for measuring of Trling or Thatching, and proper Tables for finding the Contents of the same at any Dimensions. With a Table for valuing the Work, from One Shilling to Thirty Shillings per Acre. The Whole laid down in so plain and easy a Method, as to suit all Persons who have the least Knowledge of Figures, and to prevent Disputes between the Employer and Workman. By Michael Searles, Land-Surveyor, of Greenwich in Kent; Author of the Surveyor's Assistant, and Inventor of the Universal Plane, Table.
Searles, Michael, 1751-1813.Date: [1779]- Books
Old crops in new bottles? : six thoughts on the science of genetically modified crops.
Royal Agricultural Society of England. Communications Department.Date: [1998?]- Books
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Sketches on rotations of crops.
Bordley, J. B. (John Beale), 1727-1804.Date: M,DCC,XCII. [1792]- Books
Non-food crops : response to the House of Lords Select Committee Inquiry on non-food crops.
Date: 1999- Books
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Outdoor salad crops.
Date: 1948- Books
Biotechnology : enhancing research on tropical crops in Africa / edited by G. Thottappilly [and others].
Date: [1992], ©1992- Books
Code of practice on the provision of information relating to genetically modified crops.
Date: [1997]- Books
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Non-food crops / Select Committee on Science and Technology.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Science and Technology Committee.Date: 1999