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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 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, A Farmer, of Little Gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: MDCCXLI. [1741] [1744]- Books
Lesser beasts : a snout-to-tail history of the humble pig / Mark Essig.
Essig, Mark, 1969-Date: [2015]- Books
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A new system of husbandry. From experiments never before made public. With tables shewing the expence and profit of each crop. How to stock Farms to the best Advantage. How the Crops are to follow each other by the Way of Rotation. Of Trench-Plowing, shewing how to raise good Crops without Manure. On Rearing, Breeding, and Feeding Cattle. Of a new discovered cheap Food for Cattle. A Description of a most valuable moving Sheep-House for eating Turnips on the Ground. Of Cabbage Husbandry. Of the Naked Wheat, &c. Of all Sorts of Manures, Marles, Clays, Sands, &c. With many chosen Receipts for the Cure of all Sorts of Cattle. All which are calculated both for the Profit and Amusement of the Country Gentleman and Farmer. To which are Annexed a few Hints particularly and humbly offered for the Perusal of the Legislature. By C. Varlo, Esq. In three volumes. ...
Varlo, Charles, approximately 1725-approximately 1795.Date: [1774]- Books
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A new system of husbandry. From experiments never before made public. With tables shewing the expence and profit of each crop. How to stock Farms to the best Advantage. How the Crops are to follow each other by the Way of Rotation. On Trench - Plowing, shewing how to raise good Crops without Manure. On Rearing, Breeding, and Feeding Cattle. On a new discovered cheap Food for Cattle. A Description of a most valuable moving Sheep-House for eating Turnips on the Ground. On Cabbage Husbandry. On the Naked Wheat, &c. On all Sorts of Manures, Marls, Clays, Sands, &c. With many chosen Receipts for the Cure of all Sorts of Cattle. All which are calculated both for the Profit and Amusement of the Country Gentleman and Farmer. To which is Annexed, A few Hints particularly and humbly offered for the Perusal of the Legislature. By C. Varley, Esq; The third edition. In three volumes. ...
Varlo, Charles, approximately 1725-approximately 1795.Date: 1772- 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]- Archives and manuscripts
Drawings of mosaics produced by patients in Bellsdyke Hospital (male wartime psychiatric casualties): Large format material
Date: 1945Reference: PP/LOW/W/22aPart of: Margaret Lowenfeld- Archives and manuscripts
Drawings of mosaics produced by patients in Bellsdyke Hospital (male wartime psychiatric casualties)
Date: 1945Reference: PP/LOW/W/22Part of: Margaret Lowenfeld- 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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The school of arts; or new book of Useful Knowledge. Containing the management and breeding of canary birds. Monthly Observations in the Orchard, Kitchen and Flower Gardens Observations in Husbandry, in the Manuring, Plowing, Weeding, and Enriching of Land. The Vermin Killer; teaching how to destroy Bugs, Lice, Fleas, Mice, Rats, Moles, Weasels, Pole-Cats, Badgers, Foxes, Otters, Wasps, Worms, Snails, Flies, Pisinires, Caterpillars, Spiders, &c. Those rare secrets how to catch Fish, and make Bird Lime, together with a valuable collection of receipts, for the cure of most disorders incident to horse and beasts, with the management of Horses on Journies, by J. Cundall, late of Brandsby. To which is added, the whole art of painting in oil & water colours. Gilding with Gold and Silver. The Method of colouring Maps. The curious Art of Varnishing and Japanning, with Receipts for making Varnish and Japan. To stain Wood, Horn, Bone, Ivory, Leather, Paper and Parchment, different Colours. To take Spots out of Silks, Stuffs, Linen, or Woollen, and many other Things worthy of Note.
Cundall, J.Date: [1790?]- Archives and manuscripts
"Other people's contributions re: Margaret Lowenfeld and her work"
Date: Late 20th CenturyReference: PP/LOW/E/73Part of: Margaret Lowenfeld- Books
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For the benefit of all people that keep cattle: being approved of by all those that have ever experienc'd or seen it, to be the cheapest and most lasting Thing of the Kind that ever yet was made; a new-invented toil, four Foot and a half high, for folding of sheep, or parting of any piece of land, much cheaper than Waddle Gates or Hurdles, more durable, and is strong enough for keeping in either Horses or Bullocks, made in quite a different Manner, and of a more durable Cordage than ever yet was made; being a very small Mash, bare three Inches and a half square, so small that neither Sheep nor Lamb can get their Head through, nor Fox creep through it; and so light, that a Man may with ease carry on his Back twenty Rods in length of it. Also all sorts of hop-bagging, sacks and sacking, Home-Made Sheeting Cloth, Ditto Hair Cloth, And Ash Cloths, Rough Hemp, Flax, Tippilings, and Towe, Fine drest Hemp and Flax for Shoe-Makers, And all sorts of Cloth, All sorts of Ropes, Rope Yarn, And Spun Yarn for Thatching, Plow Traces, Halters, Halter Reins, Foddering Lines, Hair Lines, Towing Lines, Packing Lines, Marline, Cloth Lines, Jack Lines, Clock Lines, Wall Lines, Garden Lines, and Fishing Lines, Whip-Cord of all sorts, Bed Cords, Would Cord, Box Cord, Sash Cord, Pack Thred, Shop Thred, Hair Thread, Coller-Makers Thred, Sealing Thred, Hemp and Flax Thred, Bedlam Twine, Fly Nets for Horses, And every sort of Netting Twine. Wholesale or Retail, as cheap as in London, by the maker, John Flaxman, in Stone-Street, Maidstone, in Kent. Note, He likewise sells Russia Yarn, Spinnell, Machine, Black Balls, Cat Gut, and Fish Hooks of all sorts; and gives Ready Money for any Quantity of Cow Tails or Horse Hair.
Flaxman, John.Date: [1760?]- Archives and manuscripts
Drawings of mosaics, USA adults and children: Large format material
Date: late 1940s-early 1950sReference: PP/LOW/W/26aPart of: Margaret Lowenfeld- Archives and manuscripts
Drawings of mosaics, USA adults and children
Date: late 1940s-early 1950sReference: PP/LOW/W/26Part of: Margaret Lowenfeld- 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 June. Containing the following particulars, viz. I. A description of, and the uses of the excellent three-wheel and pulley drill ploughs, several sorts of horse-breaks, and hand instruments, as they are now employed by common farmers, for improving their crops of wheat, barley, pease, beans, rapes, weld, coriander, carraway, canary, seeds of trees, turneps, hops, and other vegetables, in the cheapest and most profitable manner. ... IV. Of proper plowings, necessary to be done in this month, in high or low, wet or dry lands. V. A large account of making natural hay, and its preservation from firing, and other damage. VI. Of sheering sheep. The nature and value of the several sorts of wooll of Great Britain; and how it is run to France. ... X. The improvement of corn, hops, cows, calves, sheep, lambs, and bees. XI. Eighteen ways of keeping off and destroying rats and mice; and the case of an horse, who was near being killed by rats poisoned with mercury: with many other curious cases, and serviceable matters. By William Ellis, of Little Gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M,DCC,XLIII. [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 August. Containing, I. The present practice of the best managers in getting in wheat crops. II. Curious cases relating to wheat crops. III. Six several ways of curing wettish or damp wheat ears. IV. How farmers may advance their corn four pence or six pence a bushel. V. Experienced cases in the improvement and getting in of rye, barley, oats, peace, beans, canary, coriander, carraway, and other crops of grain. VI. Of a flax crop, and how to improve it, after it is got in, to the greatest advantage. VII. A new method of greatly improving a crop of clover, while it is seeding in the field. VIII. Plowings necessary to be performed in several countries in this month. IX. Of hop plantations for August, and the middlesex farmers management of their second crop of hay. X. A large account of managing bees in this month. XI. How cattle died of the Murrain in 1736, and a famous receipt to cure or prevent it, with many other serviceable matters never before published. By William Ellis, of little gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M,DCC,XLIII. [1743]- 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 fram. II. Of the nature of the several sorts of wheat, and the soil proper for each. III. Of the great improvement of barley, by brining the seed, after an entire new method, and without expence. IV. Of incerasing crops of peas and beans by horse-hoeing. 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 plowed 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. XII General observations on the year 1734. XIV. A comparison of different methods of farming in several countries. Part II. By William Ellis, of Little Gaddesdell, in Hertfordshire.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M.DCC.XXXV. [1735]- Books
The evolution explosion : how humans cause rapid evolutionary change / Stephen R. Palumbi.
Palumbi, Stephen R.Date: [2001], ©2001- Archives and manuscripts
Drawings of mosaics, boys and girls, 10-17 years (pre-1939): Large format material
Date: 1930sReference: PP/LOW/W/29aPart of: Margaret Lowenfeld- Archives and manuscripts
Drawings of mosaics, boys and girls, 10-17 years (pre-1939)
Date: 1930sReference: PP/LOW/W/29Part of: Margaret Lowenfeld- Archives and manuscripts
Drawings of mosaics classified by Mary Boucher (Europe and America)
Date: 1940s-1950sReference: PP/LOW/W/25Part of: Margaret Lowenfeld- Archives and manuscripts
Drawings of mosaics classified by Mary Boucher (Europe and America): large format material
Date: 1940s-1950sReference: PP/LOW/W/25aPart of: Margaret Lowenfeld- Books
Rain : a natural and cultural history / Cynthia Barnett.
Barnett, Cynthia, 1966-Date: [2015]- Books
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The modern husbandman, for the month of March, Containing the following Particulars, Viz. I. An Account of sowing Wheat-Seed in March. II. How to improve late-sown Crops of Wheat. III. Several necessary Ways to prepare, sow, and improve, different Sorts of Barley. IV. Of Sowing Oats, Pease, Thetches, and Tills different Ways in March. V. Of Sowing artificial Grass-Seeds in different Manners. VI. A Description of an excellent new-invented Swing-Plough, now in Use for plowing dry Soils. Vii. The Benefit of Rolling Corn and Grass-Grounds in this Month. Viii. The Copy of a Letter for sending Aylesbury pirky Wheat-Seed to a Gentleman, with the Author's Answer to the same. IX. The late Sir John Dalrymple's Character, and the Copy of his first Letter to the Author. X. Copy of a Letter from a very learned Gentleman, with the Author's Answer. XI. An Account of a new-invented; cheap, small Tool, that prepares the finest and most profitable Wheat-Seed, that can be sown; which was invented by an unknown Gentleman, and lately sent to this Author as a Present, who now furnishes the same Sort to any Person that will buy it; being a Tool of great Profit to all Farmers and Gentlemen, who occupy Arable Land, and which will effectually supply the Use of the great Round Wire Worm - Screen, that costs Thirty Pounds. 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]