The farmer. Comprehending the several most interesting objects and beneficial practices in the culture of wheat, rye, Barley, Oats, Buckwheat, Peas, Beans, Tares, Rape, Hemp, Flax, Weld, Turnips, Carrots, Potatoes, Cabbages, Clover, Lucerne, Saintfoin, &c. &c. &c. With the Application and Value of their Products, &c. Together with the Cultivation of Hops, Vines, Forest Trees, Fruit Trees, Kitchen and Flower Garden Productions. Likewise, directions in the breeding and improvement of horses, oxen, Cows, Calves, Sheep, Lambs, and Hogs; With Remarks for Purchasing, Feeding and Disposing of them to greatest Advantage; and the Methods of Preventing and Removing their most fatal Disorders. Also, rules for the treatment and rearing of poultry, viz. Pheasants, Turkeys, Geese, Fowl, Tame Rabbits, Pigeons, &c. And the ordering of bees, and their Labors. To which is prefixed, an introductory essay, calculated to give a clear and perspicuous view of the theory of agriculture, and its Progress from earliest Antiquity to the present Time. By Josiah Ringsted, Esq; Author of the Cattle Keeper's Assistant, or Complete Directory for Country Gentlemen, Sportsmen, Farmers, Graziers, Farriers, Game and Cow Keepers, Horse Dealers, Carriers, &c. and a Diary, containing Tables for the easier Arrangement of the Accounts, of the Business of Gardening, Cattle Keeping, Game Keeping, &c. &c.
- Ringsted, Josiah, -1812.
- Date:
- [1781?]
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London : printed for J. Dixwell, No. 148, St. Martin's Lane, Charing Cross , [1781?]
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166,[6]p. ; 80.
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ESTC N18545
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