Agriculture improv'd: or, The practice of husbandry display'd. Chiefly shewn by facts, perform'd in all sorts of land, according to the old plain, and the new drill, way of farming. In two volumes: containing, a receipt how to improve an acre of barley for six-pence charge. How to improve that noble large fowl the bustard. The nature of pond-insects; also of serpents; and how to cure their venomous bites, &c. How to prevent the mischiefs done to farmers by sparrows. Of St. Timothy's Grass, (five feet long) which will mow four times a year. Of night as well as day fishing. Tench-broth, its restorative nature; and how to make it. Mr. Worlidge's notes on husbandry commented upon. Of improving of estates, soils, bogs, &c. Of the management of bees. How to prevent damage done to peas by pigeons, &c. Accounts of several new-invented engines and implements, of great use in husbandry. How farming may be carried on by the drill-plough, without dung, manure, or live cattle. How to preserve wheat in granaries, from damps, vermin, &c. How to desend crops of turnep-seed from field-fowls. Of encouragements from landlords to promote the industry of tenants. The present state of bad husbandry in Scotland; with proposals for remedying it. The Cheshire and Lancashire way of managing their wheat and barley crops. Of the bad consequences of wrong manuring, wrong ploughing, &c. Damage done by greedy tenants to themselves and landlords, by ploughing up the poor lands of woulds, downs, and commons. With many other curious and serviceable matters, never before published. ... By William Ellis, a farmer, of Little Gaddesden, near Hemsted, in Hertfordshire, author of the Modern husbandman.

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M DCC XLVI. [1746]