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The modern improvements in agriculture. Containing the principles of tillage and vegetation, and present practice of the most skilful husbandmen in the culture of corn and pulse, and of the grasses, plants and roots for feeding cattle: and a comparative view of their uses and advantages, from authentic experiments made by many ingenious persons, particularly in Britain and Ireland. Likewise the most approved methods of watering land, draining, and other valuable improvements. Illustrated with copper-plates, and descriptions of several new instruments; one a horse-hoe in vented by the author, of very general use, for hoeing all crops planted in rows, with wide or narrow spaces. Part I. By a Practiser of both the old and new husbandry.
Practiser of both the old and new husbandry.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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The practical farmer: or the Hertfordshire husbandman: containing many new improvements in husbandry. I. Of Meliorating the different Soils, and all other Branches of Business relating to a Farm. II. Of the Nature of the several Sorts of Wheat, and the Soil proper for each. III. Of the great Improvement of Barley, by Brineing the Seed, after an entire new Method, and without Expence. IV. Of encreasing Crops of Pease and Beans by Horse-Houghing. V. Of Trefoyle, Clover, Lucerne, and other Forreign Grasses. VI. A new Method to Improve Land at a small Expence, with Burnt Clay. Vii. Of the Management of Cows, Sheep, Suckling of Calves, Lambs, &c. with Means to prevent, and Remedies to cure Rottenness in Sheep. Viii. How to keep Pigeons and Tame Rabbits to Advantage. IX. A new Method of Planting and Improving Fruit-Trees in Plough'd Fields. By William Ellis, Of Little Gaddesden, in Hertfordshire.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]- Books
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The practical farmer: or, the Hertfordshire husbandman: containing many new improvements in husbandry. I. Of Meliorating the different Soils, and all other Branches of Business relating to a Farm. II. Of the Nature of the several Sorts of Wheat, and the Soil proper for each. III. Of the great Improvement of Barley, by Brineing the Seed, after an entire new Method, and without Expence. IV. Of increasing Crops of Pease and Beans by Horse-Houghing. V. Of Trefoyle, Clover, Lucerne, and other Foreign Graffes. VI. A new Method to Improve Land at a small Expence, with Burnt Clay. Vii. Of the Management of Cows, Sheep, Suckling of Calves, Lambs, &c. with Means to prevent, and Remedies to cure Rottenness in Sheep. Viii. How to keep Pigeons and Tame Rabbits to Advantage. IX. A new Method of Planting and Improving Fruit-Trees in Ploughed-Fields. By William Ellis, Of Little Gaddesden, in Hertfordshire.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]- Books
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The practical farmer: or, The Hertfordshire husbandman: containing many new improvements in husbandry. I. Of Meliorating the different Soils, and all other Branches of Business relating to a Farm. II. Of the Nature of the several Sorts of Wheat, and the Soil proper for each. III. Of the great Improvement of Barley, by Brineing the Seed, after an entire new Method, and without Expence. IV. Of increasing Crops of Pease and Beans by Horse-Houghing. V. Of Trefoyle, Clover, Lucerne, and other Foreign Grasses. VI. A new Method to Improve Land at a small Expence, with Burnt Clay. Vii. Of the Management of Cows, Sheep, Suckling of Calves, Lambs, &c. with Means to prevent, and Remedies to cure Rottenness in Sheep. Viii. How to keep Pigeons and Tame Rabbits to Advantage. IX. A new Method of Planting and Improving Fruit-Trees in Ploughed-Fields. By William Ellis, Of Little Gaddesden, in Hertfordshire.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]- Books
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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: 1739- Pictures
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A tea plantation in China: workers roll the caper tea into balls. Coloured lithograph.
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Letters by a farmer: originally published in the Belfast Evening post; with several alterations and additions.
Farmer.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]- Pictures
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Nine scenes showing tea cultivation and preparation on an Indian plantation. Engraving by T. Brown, c. 1850, after J. L. Williams.
Williams, Joseph Lionel, approximately 1815-1877.Date: 1850Reference: 25275i- Books
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The practical farmer: or, the Hertfordshire husbandman: containing many new improvements in husbandry. I. Of Meliorating the different Soils, and all other Branches of Business relating to a Farm. II. Of the Nature of the several Sorts of Wheat, and the Soil proper for each. III. Of the great Improvement of Barley, by Brineing the Seed, after an entire new Method, and without Expence. IV. Of increasing Crops of Peas and Beans by Horse-Houghing. V. Of Trefoyle, Clover, Lucerne, and other Foreign Grasses. VI. A new Method to Improve Land at a small Expence, with Burnt Clay. Vii. Of the Management of Cows, Sheep, Sugkling of Calves, Lambs, &c. with Means to prevent, and Remedies to cure Rottenness in Sheep. Viii. How to keep Pigeons and Tame Rabbits to Advantage. IX. A new Method of Planting and Improving Fruit-Trees in Ploughed Fields. X. Of the various Manures and Dungs proper for every Soil. XI. Of the Usefulness, Culture, Method of Raising, Drying, and the Virtues of Hops. XII. Of Foreign Wheats. XIII. General Observations on the Year 1734. XIV. A Comparison of different Methods of Farming in several Countries. By William Ellis, Of Little Gaddesden, in Hertfordshire. Part II.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]- 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- Pictures
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A wine-grower squirts sulphur on his crop. Pen and ink drawing by G. Ri.
Ri, G., 1853-1940.Reference: 17211i- Pictures
Farm workers ploughing a field for fodder-crops between two areas of harvested wheat (companion planting, intercropping) to exploit land resources fully. Colour lithograph, ca. 1950.
Date: [1950?]Reference: 5170i- Books
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Agriculture improv'd: or, The practice of husbandry display'd. Chiefly shewn by facts, perform'd in all sorts of land, according to the old plain, and the new drill, way of farming. In two volumes: containing, a receipt how to improve an acre of barley for six-pence charge. How to improve that noble large fowl the bustard. The nature of pond-insects; also of serpents; and how to cure their venomous bites, &c. How to prevent the mischiefs done to farmers by sparrows. Of St. Timothy's Grass, (five feet long) which will mow four times a year. Of night as well as day fishing. Tench-broth, its restorative nature; and how to make it. Mr. Worlidge's notes on husbandry commented upon. Of improving of estates, soils, bogs, &c. Of the management of bees. How to prevent damage done to peas by pigeons, &c. Accounts of several new-invented engines and implements, of great use in husbandry. How farming may be carried on by the drill-plough, without dung, manure, or live cattle. How to preserve wheat in granaries, from damps, vermin, &c. How to desend crops of turnep-seed from field-fowls. Of encouragements from landlords to promote the industry of tenants. The present state of bad husbandry in Scotland; with proposals for remedying it. The Cheshire and Lancashire way of managing their wheat and barley crops. Of the bad consequences of wrong manuring, wrong ploughing, &c. Damage done by greedy tenants to themselves and landlords, by ploughing up the poor lands of woulds, downs, and commons. With many other curious and serviceable matters, never before published. ... By William Ellis, a farmer, of Little Gaddesden, near Hemsted, in Hertfordshire, author of the Modern husbandman.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M DCC XLVI. [1746]- Books
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The description and use of the new invented patent universal sowing machine, for broad-casting or drilling every king of grain, pulse, and seed, Particularly beans, pease, tares, wheat, barley, clover, oats, rye, cole-seed, hemp, flax, canary, rape, lucerne, tresoil, turnips, &c. with anregularity not to be equalled by any other method; by which the produce of every crop will be greatly increased; and, at the same time a very considerable saving made in the seed, and in the expence attending the culture. By John Horn.
Horn, John, active 1784-1785.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- 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]- Pictures
Destruction of vermin and insect pests and crop diseases thanks to scientific advice to farmers from the "Land- und Hauswirtschaftlicher Auswertungs- und Informationsdienst". Colour lithograph, ca. 1950.
R., E. von (Graphic designer), active approximately 1950.Date: [1950?]Reference: 573157i- Books
The globalization of wheat : a critical history of the Green Revolution / Marci R. Baranski.
Baranski, MarciDate: [2022]- Books
The EU and GM foods : current regulations and future trends / Virginia Graham.
Graham, Virginia.Date: 2000- Books
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A complete body of husbandry: collected from the practice and experience of the most considerable farmers in Britain. Particularly setting forth The various Ways of Improving Land, by Hollow Ditching, Draining, Double Plowing, Grasing, Enclosing, Watering and Manuring. With Particular Directions for the fertilizing of Broom-Ground, Heath-Ground, Furz, Bushey, and Chilturn-Ground: Also the Method of Improvement, by assorting proper Plants to Lands, and of shifting of Crops. To which is added, Several Particulars relating to the Preservation of the Game; and stated Accounts of the Expence and Profits of Arable, Pasture, Meadow and Wood Lands. Adorn'd with cuts. By R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F.R.S.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: MDCCXXVII. [1727]- Books
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A complete body of husbandry; collected from the practice and experience of the most considerable farmers in Britain. Particularly setting forth the various ways of improving land, by hollow ditching, dreining, double plowing, grafing, enclosing, watering and manureing. With particular directions for the fertilising of broom-ground, heath-ground, furze, bushey, and chilturn-ground: Also the method of improvement, bu affortting proper plants to lands, and of shifting crops. To which is added several particulars relating to the preservation of the game; and stated accounts of the expence and profits of arable, pasture, meadow and wood lands. Adorn'd with cuts. By R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F.R.S.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: M.DCC.XXVII. [1727]- Books
Science, internationalization, and policy networks : regulating genetically-engineered food crops in Canada and the United States, 1973-1998 / by Elizabeth Louise Moore.
Moore, Elizabeth Louise.Date: 2000- Books
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Letters and papers on agriculture, planting, &c. selected from the correspondence-book of the Society instituted at Bath, for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce, within the Counties of Somerset, Wilts, Glocester, and Dorset, and the City and County of Bristol. To which is added, an appendix; containing, a proposal for the further improvement of agriculture; By a Member of the Society; and a translation of Mons. Hirzel's letter to Dr. Tissot, in Answer to Mons. Linguet's Treatise on Bread-Corn and Bread. By another Member of the Society.
Bath and West of England Society.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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Practical agriculture epitomized, and adapted to the tenantry of Ireland; with considerations upon the Dublin Society's premiums for husbandry, and a plan for an entire change of form therein; Interspersed with occasional Reflections, upon Variety of Interesting Subjects. Particularly. The French Nation near ruined by Colbert's rage for Manufactures. Wisdom of the English Nation at that Period. The astonishing Spirit now in France, amongst all Ranks of People to promote Agriculture. The spirited Exportation of Corn, a true Principle for increasing the Quantity and lowering the Price. Manufacturers working upon foreign Materials, burtful to the Nation. A Spirited Culture of the Land, the only source of Riches to the Kingdom. Misery of the Lower Tenantry. The present Course of Husbandry, and its unprofitableness to the Farmer, and lessening of Produce to the Nation. Improved Courses of Husbandry proposed. Ameliorating and impoverishing Crops distinguished. Instruction of Country Labourers in useful Arts of Cultivation, one capital Foundation of Improved Husbandry. Primary and Secondary Objects distinguished in a National View. The insufficient Population, and Hints for improving it. Waste Lands to be improved. Growth of Timber and Planting, whose immediate Province. Humbly Submitted to the Consideration of The Dublin Society. By John Wynn Baker, F. R. S.
Baker, John Wynn, approximately 1730-1775.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Pictures
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A tea plantation in China: workers water the young plants. Coloured lithograph.
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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]