A practical treatise of husbandry: wherein are contained many useful and valuable experiments and observations in the new husbandry ... Also the approved practice of the best English farmers in the old method of husbandry / [M. Duhamel du Monceau].

  • Duhamel du Monceau, M., 1700-1782.
Date:
1759
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Credit: A practical treatise of husbandry: wherein are contained many useful and valuable experiments and observations in the new husbandry ... Also the approved practice of the best English farmers in the old method of husbandry / [M. Duhamel du Monceau]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4k Leguminous Plants* There was great plenty of garden beans this year : but the crop of peas, lentils, and kidney-beans, was but middling, Pot-He rbs, Turneps of all kinds abounded. Some, of which I had the feed from Scotland, were 29 inches in circumference. Cabbages were very plenty, but their hearts were fmall. The beet-roots, carrots, and fcorzoneras which we cultivated with the horfe-hoe, grew to a furprizing bignefs -, far beyond any in the beft kitchen gardens. Artichoaks yielded plenty of fine heads in the fpring, and again in autumn, fo that we had them till December, H a v. As the fainfoin bloffomed in the dry feafons, it remained : but its quality was very good. The meadows in general yielded but little hay ; and even that, being wet in moft places after it was cut down, was fcarcely good for any thing. Our meadows, which are extremely well cultivated, were as well covered as in the beft of years \ and as we got our hay in dry, its quality was very good. Hemp. Hemp did not grow high this year : but, that excepted, it was very good. What was fovvn in grounds bordering upon water, fucceeded much better than any other. WINE, The vines that were nipped by the frofts in the fpring, yielded but little wine, and that fharp and flat. Other vines yielded the value of a good half year. The grapes fermented as loon as they were put into the tub, and as the froth fubfided very quickly after, the wines were made in a few days. Moft of thel'e wines have colour enough * but, in general, the old wines deferve the preference. F r u 1 T. The caterpillars having devoured all the verdure of the apple, pear, and plum trees, we had none of thole fruits this year. Our oak 0^*3c] trees