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The farmers harvest companion. Containing, a table, shewing the area, or content of any cant, or piece of land, ... Also, a table, shewing the charge of workmanship of any quantity of land, ... Designed chiefly for the use of farmers and husbandmen in harvest; ... The second edition. With the addition of a table, shewing the value of any number of perches from one perch to forty; ... Very useful for those persons who buy or sell wood by the acre. ... By Tho. Jarvis.
Jarvis, Tho. (Thomas).Date: 1750- Books
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Nouveaux & anciens principes [sic] du commerce, comparés: ou traité sur les principles du commerce entre les nations; avec un appendice, ... Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois. ...
Date: 1789- Books
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Practical husbandry; or, the art of farming, with a certainty of gain: as practised by judicious farmers in this country. The Result of Experience and Long Observation. By Dr. John Trusler, of Cobham, Surry. In this Work is contained all the Knowledge necessary in the plain Business of Farming, unincumbered with Theory, Speculation, or Experimental Enquiry; also, a Number of Estimates of the Expences and Profits of different Crops in the common Way, taken from Minutes kept; and a Variety of useful Remarks, not to be met with in any Books of Agriculture. Together with Directions for Measuring Timber.
Trusler, John, 1735-1820.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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Suggestions for rendering the inclosure of common fields and waste lands a source of population and riches. By Thomas Stone, Land and tythe surveyor, Bedford.
Stone, Thomas, -1815.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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Uniting and monopolizing farms, plainly proved disadvantageous to the land-owners, and highly prejudicial to the public. To which are added, several observations shewing the Causes of the present high prices of all kind of Provisions. The second edition, much enlarged and improved, by John Lewis.
Lewis, John, of Ipswich.Date: [1772]- Books
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Britain's commercial interest explained and improved; in a series of dissertations on several important branches of her trade and police: Containing A Candid Enquiry into the secret Causes of the present Misfortunes of the Nation. With Proposals for their Remedy. Also The great Advantages which would accrue to this Kingdom from an Union with Ireland. By Malachy Postlethwayt, Esq; Author of the Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, &c. ...
Postlethwayt, Malachy, 1707?-1767.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- 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 complete English farmer: or, Husbandry made perfectly easy in all its useful branches. Containing what every farmer ought to know and practice. Among the various articles treated of in this work, are the following, viz. The management and qualities of the different kinds of grass, and making hay. Description of the different soils and of manuring and ploughing land. The cultivation and management of wheat and barley. The culture of oats and Rye. Of the farmer's stock, &c. The best methods of breeding and rearing colts, managing horses and mares, and of curing their numerous diseases. The art of rearing calves and lambs, together with the best methods of managing bulls, oxen, cows and sheep, to make them turn out to the greatest advantage. Also several excellent receipts to cure the different disorders they are subject to. The best and most approved method of rearing pigs, fatening swine, and chusing the best sort for breeding, and for curing all their disorders. Of breeding rabbits to the best advantage. The whole art of rearing and managing fowls, ducks, geese, turkies and pigeons, to make them turn out profitable to the farmer, with choice receipts to cure their several distempers. The management of bees, both for profit and pleasure. The cultivation of turnips, beans, peas, tares, flax, and hemp, &c. &c. &c. And other useful articles, too numerous to mention in a title page. By George Cooke, farmer, at West-End, in Hertfordshire.
Cooke, George.Date: [1772?]- Books
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Tracts on practical agriculture and gardening. Particularly addressed to the gentlemen-farmers in Great-Britain. With several useful improvements in stoves and green-houses. To which is added, a chronological catalogue of English authors on agriculture, botany, gardening, &c. By R. Weston, Esq. Author of the Universal Botanist.
Weston, Richard, 1733-1806.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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The practice of farming and husbandry in all sorts of soils, according to the latest improvements, very useful for all landlords and tenants, of Ploughed, Grass, or Wood Lands, 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, Horn-Beam, Maple, Lime, Sycamore, Horse and sweet Chesnut, Walnut, Hazel. White-Older, and the Case of the Black-Cherry. And also of the 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 Esqr; of Clarkenwel, 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 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 or Ridging up and Casting down: With Descriptions and Dimensions of the Wheel Ploughs; also of the Foot, Creeper, Kentish, Newmaker, and a new invented light Plough that does almost double work with the same Horses that draws 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-Hoeing its Advantages and Disadvantages. XII. Of Turneps, and how to save them from the Slug, Fly and Caterpillar. XIII. Salt, 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.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M.DCC.XXXV. [1735]- Books
UK bioscience : helping to safeguard the future supply of our daily bread / BBSRC.
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (Great Britain)Date: 2014- Books
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Essays on husbandry. Essay I. A general introduction; Shewing That Agricultre is the Basis and Support of all flourishing Communities;-The antient and present State of that useful Art;-Agriculture, Manufactures, Trade, and Commerce justly harmonized;-of the right Cultivation of our Colonies;-Together with the Defects, Omissions, and possible Improvements in English Husbandry. Essay II. An account of some experiments tending to improve the culture of lucerne by transplantation: Being the first Experiments of the Kind hitherto made and published in England: From whence it appears, that Lucerne is an Article of great Importance in English Husbandry. The Whole illustrated with Copper-Plates and Representations cut on Wood.
Harte, Walter, 1709-1774.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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Agricultura: or the good husbandman, being a tract of antient and modern experimental observations on the green vegetable system. Interspersed with exemplary Remarks on the Police of other Nations: To promote industry, self-love, and public good, by reducing forests, chaces, and heaths into farms. Together with some Observations on the large Exports that must unavoidably arise from thence, as well as the increase of Population. Depopulation considered. Tables calculated for the Use and Ease of the Good Husbandman, for Enclosing Land, Degrees in strength of various Food for Cattle, and Strength of Dungs, &c. with many interesting Instructions, in order to stimulate Industry, and accumulate Wealth. By Matthew Peters, Member of the Dublin Society for the Encouragement of Husbandry and other useful Arts. Author of the Rational Farmer, and Winter Riches.
Peters, Matthew.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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A compleat body of husbandry. Containing rules for performing, in the most profitable manner, the whole business of the farmer and country gentleman, in Cultivating, Planting and Stocking of Land; In judging of the several Kinds of Seeds, and of Manures; and in the Management of Arable and Pasture Grounds: Together with The most approved Methods of Practice in the several Branches of Husbandry, From sowing the Seed, to getting in the Crop; and in Breeding and Preserving Cattle, and Curing their Diseases. To which is annexed, The whole Management of the Orchard, the Brewhouse, and the Dairy. Compiled from the original papers of the late Thomas Hale, Esq; And enlarged by many new and useful Communications on Practical Subjects, From the Collections of Col. Stevenson, Mr. Randolph, Mr. Hawkins, Mr. Storey, Mr. Osborne, the Reverend Mr. Turner, and others. A Work founded on Experience; and calculated for general Benefit; consisting chiefly of Improvements made by modern Practitioners in Farming; and containing many valuable and useful Discoveries, never before published. Illustrated with a great number of cuts, containing Figures of the Instruments of Husbandry; of useful and poisonous Plants, and various other Subjects, engraved from Original Drawings. Published by his Majesty's Royal Licence and Authority. ...
Hale, Thomas, Esq.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]-59- Books
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An essay, proving, that inclosing commons, and common-field-lands, is contrary to the interest of the nation: In which some Passages in the New System of Agriculture, by J. Laurence M.A. and in the Duty and Office of a Land-Steward, by E. Laurence, Land-Surveyor, are examined. Dedicated to James Oglethorpe Esq; Member of Parliament for Haslemere in the County of Surrey.
Cowper, John, farmer.Date: 1732- Books
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A compleat body of husbandry. Containing rules for performing, in the most profitable manner, the whole business of the farmer, and country gentleman, in Cultivating, Planting, and Stocking of Land; in Judging of the several Kinds of Seeds, and of Manures; and in the Management of Arable and Pasture Grounds: together with The most approved Methods of Practice in the several Branches of Husbandry, From Sowing the Seed, to Getting in the Crop; and In Breeding and Preserving Cattle, and Curing their Diseases. To which is annexed, The whole Management of the Orchard, the Brewhouse, and the Dairy. Compiled from the original papers of the late Thomas Hale, Esq; And enlarged by many New and Useful Communications on Practical Subjects, From the Collections of Col. Stevenson, Mr. Randolph, Mr. Hawkins, Mr. Storey, Mr. Osborne, the Rev. Mr. Turner, and others. A Work founded on Experience; and calculated for general Benefit; consisting chiefly of Improvements made by modern Practitioners in Farming; and containing many valuable and useful Discoveries, never before published. Illustrated with a great number of cuts, containing Figures of the Instruments of Husbandry; of useful and poisonous Plants, and various other Subjects, engraved from Original Drawings. Published by his Majesty's Royal Licence and Authority.
Hale, Thomas, Esq.Date: M.DCC.LVI. [1756] [1755-56]