An essay on the weather; with remarks on the shepherd of Banbury's rules for judging of it's [!] changes; and directions for preserving lives and buildings from the fatal effects of lightening. Intended chiefly for the use of husbandmen / By John Mills.

  • John Mills
Date:
1773
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Credit: An essay on the weather; with remarks on the shepherd of Banbury's rules for judging of it's [!] changes; and directions for preserving lives and buildings from the fatal effects of lightening. Intended chiefly for the use of husbandmen / By John Mills. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    what time each tree expands it’s buds, and unfolds it’s leaves ; imagining, and. not without good reafon, that his country, and the fame is equally appli- cable to every other, would, fome time or other, reap fome new, and perhaps unexpected benefit, from obfervations of this kind made in different places. As one of the apparent advantages, he advifes the prudent hufbandman to watch with the greateft care the proper time for fowing; becaufe this, with the divine affiftance, produces plenty of provifion, and lays the foundation of the public welfare of the ftate, and of the private happinefs of the people. ‘The ignorant farmer, continues he, te- nacious of the ways and cuftoms of his anceftors, fixes his fowing-feafon generally to a month, and fometimes to a particular day, without confidering whether the earth be prepared to receive the feed: from whence it frequently happens, that the fields do not return what might be expected, and that what the fower fows with f{weat, the reaper reaps with forrow. The wife cecono- mift fhould therefore fix certain. figns