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 Farm. II. Of the Nature of the several Sorts of Wheat, and the Soil proper for each. III. Of the great Improvement of Barley, by Brineing the Seed, after an entire new Method, and without Expence. IV. Of encreasing Crops of Pease and Beans by Horse-Houghing. V. Of Trefoyle, Clover, Lucerne, and other Forreign 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 Plough'd Fields. By William Ellis, Of Little Gaddesden, in Hertfordshire.

  • Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.
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M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]
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Practical farmer. Part 1

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Dublin : printed by A Rhames, for R. Gunne near the Ram in Caple-Street, M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]

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iv,116p. ; 80.

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ESTC T16819

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