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 seveal sorts of wheat, and the soil proper for each. III. Of the great improvement of barley, by brineing the seed, after an entire new mehod, and without expence. IV. Of increasing crops of pease and beans by horse-houghing. 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 ploughed-fields. By William Ellis, of Little Gaddesden, in Hertfordshire.
- Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.
- Date:
- M.DCC.XXXVIII. [1738]
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Also known as
Practical farmer. Part 1
Publication/Creation
London : Printed for Thomas Astley, at the Rose; and Stephen Austen, at the Angel and Bible; in St. Paul's Church-Yard, M.DCC.XXXVIII. [1738]
Physical description
171,[5]p. ; 80.
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Edition
The third edition.
References note
ESTC T16822