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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 unparrellel'd issue plaisters and pease for issues, that has been so often advertised in the publick news for these many years past, and have been sold with good success for above 30 years, by Mr. John Bowden, the sole author, at the Plow and Harrow in Chancery-Lane, next Fleet-Street, viz.
Bowden, John, at the Plow and Harrow in Chancery-Lane.Date: 1701?]- Books
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A letter on the construcion and use of the improved foot ploguh. By an essex farmer.
Essex Farmer.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Pictures
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A team of oxen being made to pull a plough. Engraving by M. van der Gucht.
Gucht, Michael van der, 1660-1725.Reference: 497692i- Books
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The modern husbandman: Or, The practice of farming: as it is now carried on by the most accurate farmers in several counties of England. For the month of July. Containing. I. The several sorts of plowings necessary to be performed in this month, in different soils and countries. II. How several farmers broke in one farm by wrong plowing their ground, and how a present tenant thrives by plowing it right; with cases relating thereto. III. A sure method to secure an acre of turneps, coleworts, weld, and many other vegetables, from the damages of flies, for three-pence charge, by only preparing the seed. IV. Several experienced ways to make rapes or coleworts answer to great profit. ... XIV. What is necessary to be done in the hop garden in this month; in which several curious and profitable matters are discovered. XV. How three several farmers pay their rents by breeding tame pheasants; wherein, by large accounts, are shewn their ingenious cheap methods of doing it. XVI. The method of breeding mottled or white-peacocks. XVII. How to discover where peat is to be found, with ample accounts of the vast improvements that have accrued by its cheap ashes, [made] at Newbury, Langley, &c. by which thousands of acres may be put to the great advantage of farmers, and to the immense profit of Great Britain, Ireland, and our plantations abroad. By William Ellis, of Little Gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M,DCC,XLIII. [1743]- Pictures
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A team of oxen being made to pull a plough. Engraving by P. Moran after R. Bonheur.
Bonheur, Rosa, 1822-1899.Reference: 40002i- Pictures
Two grazing cattle with a man and a woman, and men ploughing land. Etching by J. Visscher after N. Berchem.
Berchem, Nicolaas Pietersz, 1620-1683.Date: [1700?]Reference: 2803342i- Pictures
The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the agricultural machinery exhibit of the Oliver Chilled Plow Works company, Indiana. Photograph, 1904.
Date: 1904Reference: 572662iPart of: 1904 World's Fair (or Louisiana Purchase Exposition), St. Louis.- Books
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[The new horse-houghing husbandry: or, an essay on the principles of tillage and vegetation. Wherein is shewn, a method of introducing a sort of vineyard-culture into the corn-fields, ...]
Tull, Jethro, 1674-1741.Date: 1731]- Books
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The new horse-houghing husbandry: or, an essay on the principles of tillage and vegetation. Wherein is shewn, a method of introducing a sort of vineyard-culture into the corn-fields, in order to increase their product, and diminish the common expence, by the use of instruments lately invented.
Tull, Jethro, 1674-1741.Date: in the Year M.DCC.XXXI. [1731]- Pictures
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Burma: members of the royal family accompanied by courtiers and drummers drive oxen through a rice paddy to inaugurate the annual crop. Gouache painting.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 727623iPart of: Burma: courtly ceremonies, amusements and sports. Gouache paintings.- Books
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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]- Books
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A table shewing the charge on the several plowlands in the county Kildare, and also the charge on the plowlands in each distinct barony, from 2l. to 20l. per plowland. Published for the Anna Liffy Club.
Anna Liffy Club.Date: 1774]- 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
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The modern husbandman: or, The practice of farming: As it is now carried on by the most accurate farmers in several counties of England. For the month of May. Containing the following particulars: viz. I. Of ploughs and plowing. II. Of barley, wheat, &c. III. Of weeds, and their cure. IV. Of manures and dressings proper for this month. V. Of artificial grasses. VI. Of bulls, cows, and calves. VII. Of cheese. VIII. Of butter. IX. Of hogs. X. Of sheep. XI. Miscellaneous matters in husbandry. XII. Of turneps; a farther account of them. XIII. Of making and repairing roads. XIV. Of horses, mares, and colts. XV. Of trees and insects. By William Ellis, of Little Gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: MDCCXLII [1742]- Books
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The modern husbandman: Or, The practice of farming: as it is now carried on by the most accurate farmers in several counties of England. For the month of May. Containing the following particulars; viz. I. Of ploughs and plowing. II. Of barley, wheat, turneps, &c. III. Of weeds, and their cure. IV. Of manures and dressings proper for this month. V. Of artificial grasses. VI. Of bulls, cows, and calves. VII. Of cheese. VIII. Of butter. IX. Of hogs. X. Of sheep. XI. Miscellaneous matters in husbandry. XII. Of turneps; a farther account of them. XIII. Of making and repairing roads. XIV. Of horses, mares, and colts. XV. Of trees and insects. By William Ellis, of Little Gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertforshire.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M,DCC,XLIII. [1743]- Books
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The horse-Hoing husbandry; compleat in four parts: or, an essay on the principles of tillage and vegetation. Wherein, Among many Curious and Useful Improvements, the following are treated of; Viz. 1. Of Roots. 2. Of Leaves. 3. Of Food of Plants. 4. Of Pasture of Plants. 5. Of Dung. 6. Of Tillage. 7. Of Hoing. 8. Of Weeds. 9. Of Turneps. 10. Of Wheat. 11. Of Smuttiness. 12. Of Blight. 13. Of St. Foin. 14. Of Lucerne. 15. Of Change of Species. 16. Of Change of Individuals. 17. Of Plows. 18. Of Drill-Boxes. 19. Of the Turnep-Drill. 20. Of the Ho-Plow, &c. AS Also, A Method of introducing a Sort of Vineyard-Culture into the Corn-Fields, in order to increase their Product, and diminish the common Expence; By the Use of Instruments described in Cuts. The second edition. By Jethro Tull, of Shalborne in the County of Berks, Esq;
Tull, Jethro, 1674-1741.Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]- Books
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The modern husbandman: or, The practice of farming: As it is now carried on by the most accurate farmers in several counties of England. For the month of April. Containing, I. Several processes of plowing various lands. II. The transcendant uses of the late-invented Hertfordshire double plough. III. Of sowing barley, pease and thetches, by the drill plough. IV. Why it is too late to sow wheat in this month. V. A description of the new-invented spiky roll. VI. The prevention and cure of rotten sheep, also of the red-water, foot-rot, &c. VII. Keeping of cows, horses, &c. from diseases. VIII. The bites of jockies exposed. VIII. How a gentleman made several improvements in his estate by this author's directions. IX. Of the uses of burnt clay; and the mischief done to land by burning grass surfaces. With other beneficial matters, tending to the improvement of this useful science. By William Ellis, of little Gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M,DCC,XLIV. [1744]- Books
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The country gentleman's vade mecum. Containing an account of the best methods to improve lands, plowing and sowing of corn; reaping, mowing, &c. Hedging, Ditching, and all Sorts of Husbandry. Of Horses, Cattle, Receipts to cure Diseases incident to them, and Instructions in buying and selling of Cattle, breeding of Horses, &c. Of Deer and Parks; Game, Fish and Fishing, Fish-Ponds, &c. Prices of Timber and all Sorts of Building and Workmanship, with the Art of measuring the same, &c. Rules for Management of a Family, Expences in Eating and Drinking; Duty and Places of Servants, &c. Account of Gardening in general, as Soil, Fruit-Trees, Greens, Flowers, and Forrest-Trees, Coppice-Woods, &c. and their Culture. And of Natural Philosophy, &c. in several distinct Chapters. To which is added, a general description of England, and particularly of London, with an Account of the Taxes, Revenues, Government, Great Offices, and Courts of Judicature of England, &c. And legal Observations on the several Chapters throughout the whole. By G. Jacob, Gent.
Jacob, Giles, 1686-1744.Date: [1717]- Books
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The modern husbandman, for the month of April, Containing the following Particulars, Viz. I. A Case, shewing how a large Field was sown with Barley in a wrong Manner, and how a Farmer lost most of his Crop by it. II. Of Sowing Barley, Pease, and Thetches, &c. by the Drill-Plough. III. How a Gentleman made several Improvements in his Estate, by this Author's Directions. IV. The Value and Use of the Draught-Plough, for plowing Marsh-Lands and other Soils. V. Of a famous, small, cheap Tool, for cleaning Wheat, Barley, Pease, common Horse-Beans, and Tick-Beans, that supply the Place of the great Thirty Pounds Wire Screen, whereby a Person may obtain the Best of any of these [d]eeds. VI. Several Accounts and Improvements, from divers Parts of this Kingdom, published for the Imitation of others. Vii. Why it is too late to sow Wheat in this Month. 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
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People of the plow : an agricultural history of Ethiopia, 1800-1990 / James C. McCann.
McCann, James, 1950-Date: [1995], ©1995- Books
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The husband man's manual spiritualized. Plow, sow, reap, and eat the fruit of thy labour with Thanksgiving.
Jones, John, Rev.Date: M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]- Books
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An address to the public; shewing, the damage done to plowed lands by stripping them of stones, &c.
Hertfordshire Farmer.Date: [1750?]- Archives and manuscripts
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M0003214: Man pushing a four wheel drill plow with a donkey pulling in front / M0003214EB: "View of Barton Bridge"
Date: 02 November 1932Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/26/30Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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The irish girl's garland, Containing two excellent New songs. I. The Farmer and his Plow. II. The Irish Girl.
Date: [1785?]