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Uniting and monopolizing farms, plainly proved disadvantageous to the land-owners, and highly prejudicial to the public. By a gentleman in the country.
Lewis, John, of Ipswich.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
Elements of modern gardening: or, the art of laying out of pleasure grounds, ornamenting farms, and embellishing the views round about our houses.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]- Videos
A world apart.
Date: 2001- Books
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A new system of husbandry. From experiments 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 the Way of Rotation. On Trench-Ploughing, shewing how to raise good Crops without Manure. On Rearing, Breeding, and Feeding Cattle, shewing the Sorts of Food that lays on Fat and Lean. On a new discovered cheap Food for Cattle. A Description of a most valuable moving Sheep-House for eating Turnips on the Ground without waste. How to raise Cabbages for feeding Cattle. On all Sorts of Manures, Marls, Clays, Sands, &c. Likewise A few Chapters humbly offered for the Perusal of the Legislature in regard to two or three Acts of Parliament which might be passed for the Good of the Public. With many chosen Receipts for the Cure of all Sorts of Cattle. All which are calculated both for Profit and Amusement of the Country Gentleman and Farmer. By C. Varley, Esq; In three volumes. ...
Varlo, Charles, approximately 1725-approximately 1795.Date: [1770]- Videos
Man-made pigs.
Date: 2001- Videos
A risky business.
Date: 2001- Archives and manuscripts
Farm Accounts
Date: 1851Reference: RET/3/4/7Part of: The Retreat Archive- Books
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An act for sale of divers messuages, farms, lands, and tenements, in the county of Essex, intailed by the will of Doctor John Bamber, ...
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1767]- Books
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Ferme ornée; or, Rural improvements. A series of domestic and ornamental designs, suited to parks, plantations, rides, walks, rivers, farms, &c. Consisting of fences, paddock houses, a bath, a dog-kennel, pavilions, farm-yards, fishing houses, sporting-boxes, shooting-lodges, single and double cottages, &c. Calculated for landscape and picturesque effects. Engraved in aqua-tinta on thirty eight plates. With appropriate scenery, plans, and explanations. By John Plaw, architect. Author of rural architecture, and sketches for cottages, villas, &c.
Plaw, John, 1744 or 1745-1820.Date: 1800- Digital Images
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Helwan, Egypt; farm cultivation
Carole Reeves- Books
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A general treatise of husbandry and gardening; containing a new system of vegetation: illustrated with many observations and experiments. In two volumes. Formerly publish'd monthly, and now methodiz'd and digested under proper heads, with additions and great alterations. In four parts. Part I. Concerning the Improvement of Land, by fertilizing bad Soils. Of stocking of Farms with Cattle, Poultry, Fish, Bees, Grasses, Grain, Cyder, &c. Part II. Instructions to a Gardener, wherein is demonstrated the Circulation of Sap, the Generation of Plants, the Nature of Soil, Air and Situation. Of the Profits arising from planting and raising Timber. Part III. Of the Management of Fruit Trees, with particular Observations relating to Graffing, Inarching and Inoculating. Part IV. Remarks on the Disposition of Gardens in general. Of the Method of managing Exotick Plants and Flowers, and naturalizing them to our Climate; with an Account of Stoves, and artificial Heats. Adorn'd with cuts. By R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S. ...
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: MDCCXXVI. [1726]- Books
Composition of British feeding stuffs : technical review and tables.
Date: 1976- Books
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Productive dairying / by R.M. Washburn ... 131 illustrations in the text.
Washburn, R. M. (Robert Mann), 1874-Date: [1917], ©1917- Books
Meats and meat products / William Henry Tomhave.
Tomhave, William Henry, 1881-Date: [1925], ©1925- Archives and manuscripts
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Comparison of cost of production of potatoes with and without bran added to manure
Date: 1851Reference: RET/3/4/7/1Part of: The Retreat Archive- Books
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Directions for taking alive or destroying rats and mice, either in houses, ships, mills, farms, &c. by a method hitherto unattempted, by John Middleton, late of Walthamstow.
Middleton, John, rat-catcher.Date: M,DCC,LXXX-IX. [1789]- Books
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Particulars of and conditions of sale for, a large and valuable estate, called Goldings; situate near Hertford, about 23 Miles distant from London: lately in the occupation of the Right Honourable the Lady Dowager St. John, deceased; Consisting of the Manors of Waterford Hall and Half Hyde, and the Demesne Lands thereunto belonging; together with a large and elegant Mansion House, with all necessary Out-Offices, a Pleasure Garden, and Wood of 10 Acres, a Kitchen Garden of about two Acres, all walled in, and bounded by about 14 Acres of Pasture Land; adjoining to which is a compact Farm, containing in the whole about 210 Acres; and several other Farms, all let to substantial Tenants, at an yearly Rent of about Six Hundred Pounds. Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford and Son, at their house in the Great Piazza, Covent garden, on Tuesday the 20th of March 1770, in seven distinct lots, Beginning punctually at Twelve O'Clock, viz. The said Mansion consists, on the attic story, of 7 convenient Bedchambers for Servants, a large Bedchambers neatly finished with Portland chimney pieces, closets, &c.
Mr. Langford and Son.Date: 1770]- Books
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Farm buildings for Scotland / by a committee appointed by the secretary of state for Scotland.
Great Britain. Committee on Farm Buildings for Scotland.Date: 1946- Books
An essay on the improvement to be made in the cultivation of small farms by the introduction of green crops and housefeeding the stock thereon ... / By William Blacker.
Blacker, William, 1777-1855.Date: [1834?]- Books
Prize essay, addressed to ... the Royal Dublin Society. On the management of landed property in Ireland ; the consolidation of small farms, employment of the poor / [William Blacker].
Blacker, William, 1777-1855Date: 1834- Archives and manuscripts
Farm Statistics and History
Date: 1974Reference: DGH1/3/4/3Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Books
The husbandry and diseases of calves.
Date: [1955?]- Books
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Draining and embanking : a practical treatise embodying the most recent experience in the application of improved methods / by John Scott.
Scott, John.Date: 1883- Archives and manuscripts
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Valuation Book, Farm and Household Stock
Date: 1824 - 1837Reference: RET/3/4/5/2Part of: The Retreat Archive- Books
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Plant life / by Maxwell T. Masters.
Masters, Maxwell T. (Maxwell Tylden), 1833-1907.Date: 1885