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Agriculture delineated: or, the farmer's complete guide; being a treatise on lands in general: shewing the best methods of cultivating and improving the different soils, for the raising of Wheat, Barley, Oats, Pease, Beans, Vetches, Lentils, Turnips, &c. &c. Also, Remarks ON The Management Of Natural And Artificial Grasses, and Directions for plowing, sowing, manuring, &c. according to the New and Old Husbandry. With comparisons made from Experimental Observations. By Gustavus Harrison, Esq. The Whole methodized in a plain and familiar Stile, for the Use of the Country Gentleman and Farmer.
Harrison, Gustavus.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]
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Annals of agriculture, and other useful arts. Collected and, published by Arthur Young, Esq. F.R.S. secretary to the Board of Agricuture, honoary member of the societies of Dublin, Bath, York, Saford, Odham, South Hants, Kent and Essex; the Philosophical and Literary Society of Manchester; the Veterinary College of London; the Economical Society of Berne; the Physicial Society of Zurich; the American Society of Massachuesetts; the Pataline Academy of Agriculture at Manheim; the Imperial Economical Society established at Petersburgh; the Royal and Electoral Economical Society of Celle; associate of the Society of Agriculture at Paris; and corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Agriculture at Florence; and of the Patriotic Society at Milan. Vol. XXIX.
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: 1797
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Annals of agriculture, and other useful arts. Collected and published by Arthur Young, Esq. F.R.S. honorary member of the societies of Dublin, Bath, York and Manchester; Œconomical Society of Berne; the Physical Society of Zurich; the Palatine Academy of Agriculture at Manheim; and the Imperial Œconomical Society established at Petersburg. Vol. I.
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]
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Annals of agriculture, and other useful arts. Collected and published by Arthur Young, Esq. F.R.S. honorary member of the societies of Dublin, Bath, York Salford, and Odiham; the Philosophical and Literary Society of Manchester; the Œconomical Society of Berne; the Physical Society of Zurich; the Palatine Academy of Agriculture at Manheim; the Imperial Œconomical Society established at Petersburgh; and corresponding member of the Royal Society of Agriculture at Paris; of the Royal Academy of Agriculture at Florence; and of the Patriotic Society at Milan. Vol. XII.
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]
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Additional remarks on the hoeing husbandry, with a description and plate of the drill and horse hoe plough. By Sir John Anstruther, Bart.
Anstruther, John, Sir, 1718-1799.Date: MDCCXCVIII. [1798]
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A view of agricultural oppressions: and of their effects upon society. By Thomas Marsters, Junior.
Marsters, Thomas.Date: 1798
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The three books of M. Terentius Varro concerning agriculture. Translated by the Rev. T. Owen, M. A. of Queen's College in the University of Oxford, and Rector of Upton Scudamore in the County of Wilts.
Varro, Marcus Terentius.Date: 1800
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The theory and practice of the drill-husbandry; founded upon philosophical principles, and confirmed by experienf [sic]. Containing I. A dissertation on the natural food of plants. ... VI. Full directions for making several kinds of horse and hand hoes, ... Illustrated ... By William Amos.
Amos, William, -1824.Date: 1794
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Prospectus of a new work to be entitled Recreations in agriculture, natural-history, arts, & miscellaneous literature. By James Anderson, ...
Anderson, James, 1739-1808.Date: 1799]
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A synopsis of husbandry. Being cursory observations in the several branches of rural economy. Adduced from a long and practical experience in a farm of considerable extent. By John Banister, Gent. Of Horton Kirby, in Kent.
Banister, John.Date: 1799
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Horse-Hoeing husbandry: or, an essay on the principles of vegetation and tillage. Designed to introduce a new method of culture; whereby the produce of the land will be increased, and the usual expence lessened. Together with Accurate Descriptions and Cuts of the Instruments employed in it. By Jethro Tull, Esq; Of Shalborne in Berkshire. To which is prefixed, A New preface by the Editors, addressed to all concerned in Agriculture.
Tull, Jethro, 1674-1741.Date: M.DCC.LXII. [1762]
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The complete gardener & farmer, containing a new gardener's kalendar, Directing The Necessary Works To BE Done Every Month, In The Kitchen, Fruit, And Pleasure Gardens; AS Also In The Conservatory And Nursery: Shewing The Particular Seasons For Propagating Esculent Plants & Fruits, With The Time When Each Sort IS Proper For Table-And The Proper Season For Transplanting Trees, Shrubs & Plants, With The Time Of Their Flowering, together with a copious index. By P. Miller, F.R.S. To which is now added, The new farmer's kalendar; or monthly remembrancer, For All Kinds Of Country Business: Containing All The Material Improvements In The New Husbandry, With Treatises on Irrigation, or Watering grass Lands and Draining. By an experienced farmer.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: 1800
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Outlines of agriculture addressed to Sir John Sinclair, Bart. President of the Board of Agriculture. By A. Hunter, M. D. F. R. S. L. & E.
Hunter, A. (Alexander), 1729-1809.Date: Anno 1795
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Agriculture, the primary interest of Great Britain. By David Young, author of National improvements.
Young, David, of Perth.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]
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Essays on the spirit of legislation, in the encouragement of agriculture, population, manufactures, and commerce. Containing observations on the political systems at present pursued in various Countries of Europe, for the Advancement of those essential Interests. Interspersed with various remarks on the practice of Agriculture. Societies of Agriculture. Rewards. Bounties. The Police. Luxury. Industry. Machines. Exportation. Taxes. Inoculation. Marriage. Naturalization, &c. Translated from the original French, which gained the premiums offered by the Society of Berne in Switzerland, for the best compositions on this subject.
Société oeconomique de Berne.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]
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Experiments in agriculture, made under the directions of the Right Honourable and Honourable Dublin Society, in the year 1772. In which, further comparative methods are carried on in the culture of wheat, and the importance to the community and the farmer of [s]owing wheat, upon Clover-Lay, confirmed by further experiments; the same compared with beans, as a preparation for wheat; the culture of carrots and parsnips, horse-beans, clover and cabbages, with a numerous set of minute experiments, taking in all articles of cultivation within the farmers department, ultimately tending to discover the most advantageous courses of crops, for the production of wheat and other grain, independent of fallow. By John Wynn Baker, F.R.S. member of the Agriculture Society, for the hundred of Salford in the county Palatine of Lancaster, and experimenter in agriculture to the Dublin Society.
Baker, John Wynn, approximately 1730-1775.Date: M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]
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Essai sur les mœurs du tems.
Reboul.Date: 1768
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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]
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The farmer's director; or, a compendium of English husbandry. Concisely describing the management of land, and cultivating the several kinds of corn and pulse. Of grasses and plants for the food of cattle, and their several feeding qualities. Of meadows and pastures, and a new system of applying the grass-lands of a farm. With various improvements interspersed through the work. Also an appendix. Containing general observations and directions on various subjects of husbandry. Such as difference of soils, and the manner of treating them. Of the cattle necessary for different farms. Of the improvement of heath lands and marshes. Of the manner of improving a new farm. Of the servants necessary, and the various implements of husbandry. Of the expence of stocking, &c. &c. By Thomas Bowden, of the county of Kent.
Bowden, Thomas.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]
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Experiments in agriculture, made under the direction of the Right Honourable and Honourable Dublin Society, in the year 1769. In which the cabbage husbandry is particularly explained, and the cheap maintenance of cattle, both in summer and winter largely treated upon, with several other interesting subjects. By Mr. John Wynn Baker, F.R.S. and experimenter in agriculture to the Dublin Society.
Baker, John Wynn, approximately 1730-1775.Date: MDCCLXXI [1771]
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A survey of the ancient husbandry and gardening, collected from Cato, Varro, Columella, Virgil, and others the most eminent writers among the Greeks and Romans: Wherein many of the most difficult Passages in those Authors are explain'd, and the whole render'd familiar to our Climate; with Variety of new Experiments. Adorn'd with Cuts. With a Preface, shewing the Use of Husbandry, and the Necessity of erecting Publick Gardens. By R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: M.DCC.XXV. [1725]
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Observations in husbandry. By Edward Lisle, Esq; Late of Crux-Easton, in Hampshire. The second edition. In two volumes. ...
Lisle, Edward, 1666?-1722.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]
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A new system of agriculture. Being a complete body of husbandry and gardening in all the parts of them. Viz. Husbandry in the field, and its several improvements. Of forest and timber trees, great and small; with ever-greens and flow'ring shrubs, &c. Of the fruit-garden. Of the kitchen-garden. Of the flower-garden. In five books. Containing all the best and latest, as well as many new improvements, useful to the husbandman, grazier, planter, gardener and florist. Wherein are interspersed many curious observations on vegetation; on the diseases of trees, and the general annoyances to vegetables, and their probable cures. As also a particular account of the famous silphium of the antients. By John Laurence, M.A. Rector of Bishops-Weremouth in the Bishoprick of Durham, and prebendary of the Church of Sarum.
Laurence, John, 1668-1732.Date: MDCCXXVI. [1726]
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Some hints for the better improvement of husbandry, and reducing it to a rational and intelligible system. In a letter humbly submited [sic] to the consideration of His Excellency the Right Honorable the Earl of Halifax ...
Baker, John Wynn, approximately 1730-1775.Date: 1762
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The practical farmer: being a new and compendious system of husbandry, adapted to the different soils and climates of America. Containing the mechanical, chemical and philosophical elements of agriculture. With many other useful and interesting subjects. By John Spurrier an old experienced farmer, late of the county of Herts, in Great-Britain: and now of Brandywine Hundred, County of New-Castle, and state of Delaware.
Spurrier, John.Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]