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Report of the Joint FAO/WHO technical meeting on methods of planning and evaluation in applied nutrition programs : Rome, Italy, 11-16 January 1965.
Date: 1966- Books
The insects attacking stored wheat in the Punjab, and the methods of combat[sic]ing them : including a chapter on the chemistry of respiration / by J.H. Barnes and A.J. Grove.
Barnes, J. H.Date: 1916- Books
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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]- Books
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The extensive practice of the new husbandry, exemplified on different sorts of land, for a course of years; in which the various methods of ploughing, hoeing, harrowing, and Manureing; and every other Process in Agriculture, Recommended by Mr. Tull, Sir Digby Legard, Mr. Duff, Mr. Randall, of York; Arthur Young, Esq; and the Complete Farmer, Etc. are considered and examined. To which is added an appendix, Containing Particular Directions for Practising Husbandry in the Best Manner, and Where the Drill-Plough May be had that is Used in it. The second edition. By Mr. Forbes.
Forbes, Francis, active 18th century.Date: [1786]- Books
Methods for the detection of the viruses of certain diseases in animals and animal products / [Agricultural Research Council of the UK].
Agricultural Research Council (Great Britain)Date: [1976]- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence between Heatley and Robert D Coghill, Director Fermentation Division, Northern Regional Research Laboratory, US Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural and Industrial Chemistry, Peoria, Illinois, USA
Date: 1943-1944Reference: PP/NHE/B/1/12Part of: Heatley, Norman George, OBE (1911- 2004)- Books
Pesticides in the diets of infants and children / Committee on Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children, Board on Agriculture and Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Commission on Life Science, National Research Council.
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children.Date: 1993- Books
Methods of communicating biotechnology with the public : United States-Commission of the European Communities Workshop, March 22-25, 1992, Dublin, Ireland : final report.
Date: [1992]- Books
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A dissertation on the chief obstacles to the improvement of land, and introducing better methods of agriculture throughout Scotland.
Date: MDCCLX. [1760]- Books
Training manual for tsetse control personnel / edited by J.N. Pollock.
Date: [1982?]- Books
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A course of experimental agriculture: containing an exact register of all the business transacted during five years on near three hundred acres of various soils; including a variety of experiments on the cultivation of all sorts of grain and pulse, both in the old and new methods; the raising large crops of turneps, cabbages, carrots, potatoes, &c. and several plants not usually cultivated, as food for cattle; and the application of them to feeding or fattening of oxen, cows, horses, hogs, sheep, &c. Also the management of the artificial grasses, particularly clover, lucerne, sainfoine, burnet, &c. in the broad-cast, drilling, and transplanting methods; and their uses in feeding several sorts of cattle. The culture of madder. A particular comparison between the old and new husbandry. The management of pasture lands. On ploughing, harrowing, and other operations of tillage, relative to the season, number, depth, &c. On the general feeding and fattening of cattle on various articles of food; the expences, profit, quantity eat, &c. The implements of husbandry, their defects, improvements, &c. With other subjects of importance to the country gentleman and farmer. The whole stated in near two thousand original experiments. In two volumes. ...
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: M.DCC.LXX. [1770]- Books
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Practical agriculture; or, a complete system of modern husbandry : with the methods of planting, and the management of live stock / By R.W. Dickson.
Dickson, R. W.Date: 1805- Books
Tropical agriculture : the climate, soils, cultural methods, crops, live stock, commercial importance and opportunities of the tropics / by Earley Vernon Wilcox.
Wilcox, Earley Vernon, 1869-Date: 1916- Books
Statistical methods : applied to experiments in agriculture and biology / by George W. Snedecor.
Snedecor, George W. (George Waddel), 1881-1974.Date: 1946- Books
Biotechnology : enhancing research on tropical crops in Africa / edited by G. Thottappilly [and others].
Date: [1992], ©1992- Books
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Experiments in agriculture, made under the direction of the Right Honourable and Honourable Dublin Society, in the year 1770. In which the cabbage husbandry is further pursued; the culture of rape in various methods as food for cattle; the Culture of Clover, and its prodigious Value to the Farmer, exemplified by Experiments; the Culture of Wheat, by different Methods, and other Interesting Subjects. By John Wynn Baker, F. R. S. And Experimenter in Agriculture to the Dublin Society.
Baker, John Wynn, approximately 1730-1775.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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The complete steward: or, The duty of a steward to his lord. Containing several new methods for the improvement of his lord's estate ... Also a new system of agriculture and husbandry ... With tables for the measurment of timber, interest of money ... Together with several law precedents relating to the duty and office of a steward / By John Mordant.
Mordant, John.Date: 1761- Books
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A six weeks tour, through the southern counties of England and Wales. Describing, particularly, I. The present state of agriculture and manufactures. II. The different Methods of cultivating the Soil. III. The Success attending some late Experiments on various Grasses, &c. IV. The Prices of Labour and Provisions. V. The state of the working poor in those Counties, wherein the Riots were most remarkable. With descriptions and copper-plates, of such newly invented Implements of Husbandry as deserve to be generally known: interspersed With Accounts of the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, and other Objects worthy of Notice. By the author of the Farmer's letters.
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
The tropical crops : a popular treatment of the practice of agriculture in tropical regions, with discussion of cropping systems and methods of growing the leading products / by Otis Warren Barrett.
Barrett, O. W. (Otis Warren), 1872-Date: 1928- Books
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The New handmaid to arts, sciences, agriculture, &c. Containing 1. Prognostications for the weather, by the moon, stars, rainbow, &c. 2. Monthly observations in the orchard, kitchen-garden and flower-garden. 3. Observations in husbandry. 4. Complete farriery, or Rules for the management of horses. 5. The vermin killer, containing methods to prevent and destroy bugs, fleas, lice, pismires, flies, and all other kinds of vermin. 6. The most rare secret how to catch fish; also the method to make bird-lime. Together with the whole art of limning and painting, in oil and water-colours. Also the art of gilding wilth [sic] gold and silver, wood, metals, leather, &c. with an oily size, and water gold. The method of colouring maps, with directions for laying metzotinto prints on glass. The curious art and mystery of japanning, to imitate the Indian way, with receipts for making the several varnishes. The mystery of dying silks, stuffs, cloth, thread, and other things. To stain wood, horn, bone, leather, &c. of various colours. To extract lake, and other curious colours from flowers, herbs, seeds, &c. The art of making glass of christal of all sorts and colours. To take spots or stains pitch, tar, rosin, wax, and ironmoulds out of silks, stuffs, linen or wollen, and recover faded, silks: with many other things worthy of note. To which are added, many curiosities and rare secrets, known to few, but exceeding useful.
Date: In the 1789- Books
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A six weeks tour, through the southern counties of England and Wales. Describing, particularly, I. The present state of agriculture and manufactures. II. The different methods of cultivating the soil. III. The success attending some late experiments on various grasses, &c. IV. The various prices of labour and provisions. V. The state of the working poor in those counties, wherein the riots were most remarkable. With descriptions and models of such new invented implements of husbandry as deserve to be generally known: interspersed with accounts of the seats of the nobility and gentry, and other objects worthy of notice. In several letters to a friend. By the author of the farmer's letters.
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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The complete steward: or, The duty of a steward to his Lord. Containing several new methods for the improvement of his Lord's estate, and shewing the indirect practices of Stewards, tending to lessen any estate. Also a new system of agriculture and husbandry, wherein are laid down general rules and directions for the management and improvement of farms. With tables for the measurement of timber, interest of money; and the value of ancient and modern coin compared. Together with several law precedents relating to the duty and office of a steward. By John Mordant. In two volumes.
Mordant, John.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
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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 invented by the Author, Of very general Use, for hoeing all Grops planted in Rows, with wide for narrow Spaces. By Mr. Forbes.
Forbes, Francis, active 18th century.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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Considerations on agriculture: treating Of the several Methods practised in different Parts of the Kingdom of Ireland, with Remarks thereon. New Improvements on the Manures proper for different Soils, particularly Lime, (with the several Ways of burning it) Sea-Sand, Shells, Clay, and Marle; with what Kinds of them are fittest for Use. Of the Culture of Wheat, and a New Method for preventing a late Harvest, and the evil Consequences thereof. To which is added, Mr. Pierson's two Tracts of the present state of the Tillage in Ireland, with some Methods offer'd for its Improvements, with a Description of several Kinds of Ploughs, and their Usefulness proved on Tryal.
Rye, George.Date: MDCCXXX. [1730]- Books
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The modern husbandman, complete in eight volumes. Containing I. The practice of farming, as it is now carried on by the most experienced Farmers in the several Counties of England, for every Month in the Year. II. The Timber and Fruit-Tree improved, or, the best practical Methods of improving different Lands with proper Timber. III. Agriculture improved, or, the Practice of Husbandry displayed, shewn by Facts performed on all sorts of Land, according to the Old Plain, and the New Drill Way of Ploughing. IV. Chiltern and Vale Farming explained, according to the latest Improvements. Necessary for all Landlords and Tenants of either Ploughed, Grass, or Wood Grounds. By William Ellis, Farmer, at Little Gaddesden, in Hertfordshire. ...
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: MDCCL. [1750]