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A new and complete system of practical husbandry; containing all that experience has proved to be most useful in farming. Either in the old or new method; with a comparative view of both; and whatever is beneficial to the husbandman, or conducive to the ornament and improvement of the country gentleman's estate / By John Mills.

  • John Mills
Date:
1762-1765
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Credit: A new and complete system of practical husbandry; containing all that experience has proved to be most useful in farming. Either in the old or new method; with a comparative view of both; and whatever is beneficial to the husbandman, or conducive to the ornament and improvement of the country gentleman's estate / By John Mills. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 PREFACE. Hi Th is renders him minutely exa£l in all h\s defcriptions; and that exadtnefs here is fo much elucidated by the accuracy of his draw¬ ings, that his explanation of the conftruilion and mechanifm of his Drill cannot but be highly ufeful; were it only to fuggeft hints to ingenious artifts, who may from thence en¬ deavour to ftrike out new improvements, as M. de la Levrie has done'^. M. de Chateauvieux, whofe genius is fingu-r- larly fertile in whatever concerns the adrr vancement of Agriculture, has likewife in¬ vented Horfe hoes, or what he calls Cultiva-^ tors, of an entirely new conftrudtion, I have* given his defcriptions of them, together with that of another Cultivator invented by M. de Villiers. Thefe inftruments, with their au¬ thors diredtions for uling them^^ are'the fub-* jedt of my fecond Article. In the third Article of this volume, I relate a feries of Experiments on the culture of Grain and Pulfe in the Horfe-hoeing Hufbandry; in which M. de Chateauvieux continues to be my principal guide The judgment, accuracy, and candour which reign throughout all his accounts, would be injured by any attempt to abridge his narrative. I havo^ therefore given the whole of what he has pub-^ llfhed on this fubjedt. The mor€^ exadlly to afcertain the value of his experin^nts, this illuftrious .^ufbandman * Sec p. 54, ■ Step. izj. not
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