The modern farmers guide. In two volumes. A new System of Husbandry, from long experience in several Kingdoms; never before made public. With tables shewing the expence and profit of each Crop; how to stock Farms to the best advantage; how the Crops are to follow each other, by way of rotation; and how to maintain the poor well, and lower the poor-cess likewise, Some Hints, humbly offered to the Legislature, on inclosing commons and open town-fields. With Several Plans of new-invented Machines; some valueable Receipts for the Cure of Cattle, &c. &c. To which is prefixed a short Abstract of the author's Life and Travels. By a real farmer. ...

  • Varlo, Charles, approximately 1725-approximately 1795.
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M.DCC.LXVIII. [1768]
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Glasgow : printed for the author, by Robert and Andrew Foulis, M.DCC.LXVIII. [1768]

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2v.,plates,tables ; 80.

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ESTC T56257
Gaskell, 480

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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