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Uniting and monopolizing farms, plainly proved disadvantageous to the land-owners, and highly prejudicial to the public. By a gentleman in the country.
Lewis, John, of Ipswich.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
Elements of modern gardening: or, the art of laying out of pleasure grounds, ornamenting farms, and embellishing the views round about our houses.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]- Books
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A general treatise of husbandry and gardening; containing a new system of vegetation: illustrated with many observations and experiments. In two volumes. Formerly publish'd monthly, and now methodiz'd and digested under proper heads, with additions and great alterations. In four parts. Part I. Concerning the Improvement of Land, by fertilizing bad Soils. Of stocking of Farms with Cattle, Poultry, Fish, Bees, Grasses, Grain, Cyder, &c. Part II. Instructions to a Gardener, wherein is demonstrated the Circulation of Sap, the Generation of Plants, the Nature of Soil, Air and Situation. Of the Profits arising from planting and raising Timber. Part III. Of the Management of Fruit Trees, with particular Observations relating to Graffing, Inarching and Inoculating. Part IV. Remarks on the Disposition of Gardens in general. Of the Method of managing Exotick Plants and Flowers, and naturalizing them to our Climate; with an Account of Stoves, and artificial Heats. Adorn'd with cuts. By R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S. ...
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: MDCCXXVI. [1726]- Archives and manuscripts
'Cayman Turtle Farm: Contract'
Date: 1981Reference: PP/AMO/F/2/12Part of: Amoroso, Professor Emmanuel Ciprian CBE, FRCP, FRS (1901-1982)- Books
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Ferme ornée; or, Rural improvements. A series of domestic and ornamental designs, suited to parks, plantations, rides, walks, rivers, farms, &c. Consisting of fences, paddock houses, a bath, a dog-kennel, pavilions, farm-yards, fishing houses, sporting-boxes, shooting-lodges, single and double cottages, &c. Calculated for landscape and picturesque effects. Engraved in aqua-tinta on thirty eight plates. With appropriate scenery, plans, and explanations. By John Plaw, architect. Author of rural architecture, and sketches for cottages, villas, &c.
Plaw, John, 1744 or 1745-1820.Date: 1800- Books
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An act for sale of divers messuages, farms, lands, and tenements, in the county of Essex, intailed by the will of Doctor John Bamber, ...
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1767]- Videos
A world apart.
Date: 2001- Videos
Man-made pigs.
Date: 2001- Videos
A risky business.
Date: 2001- Digital Images
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Helwan, Egypt; farm cultivation
Carole Reeves- Books
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Particulars of and conditions of sale for, a large and valuable estate, called Goldings; situate near Hertford, about 23 Miles distant from London: lately in the occupation of the Right Honourable the Lady Dowager St. John, deceased; Consisting of the Manors of Waterford Hall and Half Hyde, and the Demesne Lands thereunto belonging; together with a large and elegant Mansion House, with all necessary Out-Offices, a Pleasure Garden, and Wood of 10 Acres, a Kitchen Garden of about two Acres, all walled in, and bounded by about 14 Acres of Pasture Land; adjoining to which is a compact Farm, containing in the whole about 210 Acres; and several other Farms, all let to substantial Tenants, at an yearly Rent of about Six Hundred Pounds. Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford and Son, at their house in the Great Piazza, Covent garden, on Tuesday the 20th of March 1770, in seven distinct lots, Beginning punctually at Twelve O'Clock, viz. The said Mansion consists, on the attic story, of 7 convenient Bedchambers for Servants, a large Bedchambers neatly finished with Portland chimney pieces, closets, &c.
Mr. Langford and Son.Date: 1770]- Books
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Directions for taking alive or destroying rats and mice, either in houses, ships, mills, farms, &c. by a method hitherto unattempted, by John Middleton, late of Walthamstow.
Middleton, John, rat-catcher.Date: M,DCC,LXXX-IX. [1789]- Archives and manuscripts
Farm Accounts
Date: 1851Reference: RET/3/4/7Part of: The Retreat Archive- Books
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Farm buildings for Scotland / by a committee appointed by the secretary of state for Scotland.
Great Britain. Committee on Farm Buildings for Scotland.Date: 1946- Books
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The particulars of a capital and very valuable freehold estate, most desirably situate In a fine Sporting Part of the County of Leicester, Seven Miles from Grantham, Seven from Melton-Mowbray, and Twenty from the Town of Leicester; comprising The Reputed Manor or Lordship of Coston, and One Thousand, Four Hundred, and Ninety-Nine Acres, Three Rood, and Eleven Perch, be the same more or less, of ancient inclosed fertile Grazing Meadow and Arable Land. Subject to a small annual Payment in lieu of all Tythes, And divided into eligible Farms, lying compact, nearly within Ring Fences, and agreeably intersected by a Rivulet; With Dwelling-Houses, Barns, Stabling, and suitable Out-Buildings; A Water Corn Mill, and sundry small Messuages and Cottages; the whole let to Mess. Gilbert, Bullivant, & Richard Harris, as Joint Tenants at will; at very old rents, amounting to Nine Hundred and Fifteen Pounds per Annum; the yearly value upon a late survey, near Twelve Hundred Pounds: Which will be sold by Auction, By Mr. Skinner and Co. On Wednesday the 12th of April, 1786, At Twelve O'Clock, At Garraway's Coffee-House, 'change-Alley, London; in five lots.
Skinner and Co. (London, England)Date: 1786]- Books
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A six months tour through the North of England. Containing, an account of the present state of agriculture, manufactures and population, in several Counties of this Kingdom. Particularly, I. The Nature, Value, and Rental of the Soil. II. The Size of Farms, with Accounts of their Stock, Products, Population, and various Methods of Culture. III. The Use, Expence, and Profit of several Sorts of Manure. IV. The Breed of Cattle, and the respective Profits attending them. V. The State of the Waste Lands which might and ought to be cultivated. VI. The Condition and Number of the Poor, with their Rates, Earnings, &c. Vii. The Prices of Labour and Provisions, and the Proportion between them. Viii. The Register of many curious and useful Experiments in Agriculture, and general Practices in rural Oeconomics communicated by several of the Nobility, Gentry, &c. &c. Interspersed With Descriptions of the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry; and other remarkable Objects: Illustrated with Copper Plates of such Implements of Husbandry, as deserve to be generally known; and Views of some picturesque Scenes, which occurred in the Course of the Journey. In four volumes. ...
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
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Productive dairying / by R.M. Washburn ... 131 illustrations in the text.
Washburn, R. M. (Robert Mann), 1874-Date: [1917], ©1917- Books
Meats and meat products / William Henry Tomhave.
Tomhave, William Henry, 1881-Date: [1925], ©1925- Books
Composition of British feeding stuffs : technical review and tables.
Date: 1976- Books
An essay on the improvement to be made in the cultivation of small farms by the introduction of green crops and housefeeding the stock thereon ... / By William Blacker.
Blacker, William, 1777-1855.Date: [1834?]- Books
Prize essay, addressed to ... the Royal Dublin Society. On the management of landed property in Ireland ; the consolidation of small farms, employment of the poor / [William Blacker].
Blacker, William, 1777-1855Date: 1834- Archives and manuscripts
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Comparison of cost of production of potatoes with and without bran added to manure
Date: 1851Reference: RET/3/4/7/1Part of: The Retreat Archive- Books
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An act for vesting certain manors, messuages, farms, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, in the county of Surry, devised by the will of Sir William Clayton, baronet, ... in trustees, ...
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1766]- Film
Studying the landscape. A hill farm study.
Date: c.1975- Ephemera
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Life imprisonment : in the battery cage / Compassion in World Farming.
Date: [1992?]