Volume 3

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.

  • Mills, John, -1784?
Date:
1762-1765
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    Paftures, taken in a much more extenfive fenfe than the generality of writers on agri¬ culture have hitherto confidered them, are the fubjeft of my third part; in which, com¬ prehending under that name whatever is, or may be, properly ufed for the food of cattle, I begin my firft chapter with treating of fuch plants as may bt> cultivated interchangeably with corn or pulfe. Almoft the whole of this is new? in the light here reprefented, gnd therefore will, I hope, be of proportiona¬ lly greater fervice; becanfe it creates a fund of pafture, hitherto little known in this country. —— The fecond chapter treats of what is commonly called artificial graft : an article from which our farmers have of late experienced many great advantages, but which they have not yet carried to near the perfection of which the experiments here related prove it to be fufceptible. In the third chapter of this part, I have endeavoured to draw a fair comparifon be¬ tween the old hufbandry and the new, by re¬ lating fadts, which fpeakfor themfelves, and feern plainly to jfhew, that though the ad¬ vantages of the horfe-hoeing method may not be immediate, or very finking, in the culture of corn 5 they are indifputable in that of pulfe, of roots, and of various articles which have lately enriched the eflential article pf Paftures® Thus much is evident, even from the few trials that have been made of it in this king¬ dom*