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Two grazing cattle with a man and a woman, and men ploughing land. Etching by J. Visscher after N. Berchem.
Berchem, Nicolaas Pietersz, 1620-1683.Date: [1700?]Reference: 2803342i- Books
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[The new horse-houghing husbandry: or, an essay on the principles of tillage and vegetation. Wherein is shewn, a method of introducing a sort of vineyard-culture into the corn-fields, ...]
Tull, Jethro, 1674-1741.Date: 1731]- Books
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The new horse-houghing husbandry: or, an essay on the principles of tillage and vegetation. Wherein is shewn, a method of introducing a sort of vineyard-culture into the corn-fields, in order to increase their product, and diminish the common expence, by the use of instruments lately invented.
Tull, Jethro, 1674-1741.Date: in the Year M.DCC.XXXI. [1731]- Pictures
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Burma: members of the royal family accompanied by courtiers and drummers drive oxen through a rice paddy to inaugurate the annual crop. Gouache painting.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 727623iPart of: Burma: courtly ceremonies, amusements and sports. Gouache paintings.- Books
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Additional remarks on the hoeing husbandry, with a description and plate of the drill and horse hoe plough. By Sir John Anstruther, Bart.
Anstruther, John, Sir, 1718-1799.Date: MDCCXCVIII. [1798]- Books
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A table shewing the charge on the several plowlands in the county Kildare, and also the charge on the plowlands in each distinct barony, from 2l. to 20l. per plowland. Published for the Anna Liffy Club.
Anna Liffy Club.Date: 1774]- Books
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People of the plow : an agricultural history of Ethiopia, 1800-1990 / James C. McCann.
McCann, James, 1950-Date: [1995], ©1995- Books
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The husband man's manual spiritualized. Plow, sow, reap, and eat the fruit of thy labour with Thanksgiving.
Jones, John, Rev.Date: M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]- Archives and manuscripts
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M0003214: Man pushing a four wheel drill plow with a donkey pulling in front / M0003214EB: "View of Barton Bridge"
Date: 02 November 1932Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/26/30Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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The irish girl's garland, Containing two excellent New songs. I. The Farmer and his Plow. II. The Irish Girl.
Date: [1785?]- Books
The stork and the plow : the equity answer to the human dilemma / Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich, and Gretchen C. Daily.
Ehrlich, Paul R.Date: [1995], ©1995- Books
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Directions for managing the iron-plow, and ventilator (or fanners,) made at Robert Bull's new smith and wright-work manufactory, foot of Leith-Walk.
Bull, Robert, manufacturer.Date: 1757?]- Books
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The modern husbandman: or The practice of farming: As it is now carried on by the most accurate farmers in several counties of England. For the month of February. Containing the following particulars, viz. I. The author's discovery of four sorts of new excellent wheats, two whereof exceed the common Red Lammas, for making the finest flour and bread. II. The good and bad properties of sowing wheat in February. III. Several accounts of sowing and setting of beans and pease. IV. Crops of corn, how they may be got seven years together, without dung or manure. V. How farming may be carried on to great profit in many places, without any other live cattle than horses. VI. Copies of several curious letters relating to husbandry, with the author's answers. VII. An account of an excellent new invented horse-break, that plows and houghs all at once. VIII. The Irish and English ways of improving potatoe-plantations. IX. A new account of grass-seeds. X. How arable lands are to be improved by converting them into meadow. XI. How the last new drill-husbandry employs poor men, and eases parish rates. With many other curious, serviceable matters, never before published. By William Ellis, of little Gaddesden, near Hampstead, in Hartfordshire.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M,DCC,XLIV. [1744]- Books
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An address to the public; shewing, the damage done to plowed lands by stripping them of stones, &c.
Hertfordshire Farmer.Date: [1750?]- Books
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The anvil and the plow : a history of the United States Department of Labor [1913-1963] / by W.B. Wilson ... [and others] ; compiled and edited by O.L. Harvey, chief of publications, with the assistance of Sylvia G. Miller [and others].
United States. Department of Labor.Date: [1963]- Pictures
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Cybele, Bacchus, Ceres and Flora on a chariot drawn by lions surrounded by all forms of natural abundance and cherubs: symbolising the element earth. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1796, after F. Albani.
Albani, Francesco, 1578-1660.Date: Jan.y 1st 1796Reference: 23950i- Pictures
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Cybele, Bacchus, Ceres and Flora on a chariot drawn by lions surrounded by all forms of natural abundance and cherubs, symbolising the element earth. Engraving by E. Baudet, 1695, after F. Albani.
Albani, Francesco, 1578-1660.Date: 1695Reference: 23641i- Books
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The modern husbandman: Or, The practice of farming: as it is now carried on by the most accurate farmers in several counties of England. For the month of July. Containing. I. The several sorts of plowings necessary to be performed in this month, in different soils and countries. II. How several farmers broke in one farm by wrong plowing their ground, and how a present tenant thrives by plowing it right; with cases relating thereto. III. A sure method to secure an acre of turneps, coleworts, weld, and many other vegetables, from the damages of flies, for three-pence charge, by only preparing the seed. IV. Several experienced ways to make rapes or coleworts answer to great profit. ... XIV. What is necessary to be done in the hop garden in this month; in which several curious and profitable matters are discovered. XV. How three several farmers pay their rents by breeding tame pheasants; wherein, by large accounts, are shewn their ingenious cheap methods of doing it. XVI. The method of breeding mottled or white-peacocks. XVII. How to discover where peat is to be found, with ample accounts of the vast improvements that have accrued by its cheap ashes, [made] at Newbury, Langley, &c. by which thousands of acres may be put to the great advantage of farmers, and to the immense profit of Great Britain, Ireland, and our plantations abroad. By William Ellis, of Little Gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M,DCC,XLIII. [1743]- Ephemera
In Grays-Inn-Lane in Plow-Yard, the third door, lives Dr. Thomas Kirleus, a collegiate physician, and sworn physician in ordinary to King Charles the second, until his death : who with a drink and a pill (hindring no business) undertakes to cure any ulcers, sores, swellings in the nose, face, or other parts, scabs, itch, scurfs, leprosies, and venereal disease, expecting nothing until the cure be finished ... a better purger than which was never given, for they cleanse the body of all impurities, which are the causes of dropsies, gouts, scurvies, stone or gravel, pains in the head, and other parts ... he cures all fevers and hot distempers without bleeding, except in few bodies. He gives his opinion to all that writes or comes for nothing.
Kirleus, ThomasDate: 1693- Books
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God the great ruler of mighty waters, Being a full and particular account, of the great damages, done by that prodigious spring-tide, which happened on the 16th. of this instant Feb. 1735-6. Also an extract of a letter, from the hundred of How in Kent, to a gentleman in town. Giving a deplorable account of the total overflowing of that hundred. With a dreadfull relation how several of the farmer's wives and others, had the shocking sight, to behold from their upper appartments, their husbands, sons, and servants drowned, as they were in the Fields at Plow; with a vast number of cattle, of all sorts. With the text of an excellent sermon, preach'd on this dismal occasion, from Psalms the 77th 19th. Verse.
Date: [1736]- Books
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Agriculture delineated: or, the farmer's complete guide; being a treatise on lands in general: shewing the best methods of cultivating and improving the different soils, for the raising of Wheat, Barley, Oats, Pease, Beans, Vetches, Lentils, Turnips, &c. &c. Also, Remarks ON The Management Of Natural And Artificial Grasses, and Directions for plowing, sowing, manuring, &c. according to the New and Old Husbandry. With comparisons made from Experimental Observations. By Gustavus Harrison, Esq. The Whole methodized in a plain and familiar Stile, for the Use of the Country Gentleman and Farmer.
Harrison, Gustavus.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Books
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A complete body of husbandry: collected from the practice and experience of the most considerable farmers in Britain. Particularly setting forth The various Ways of Improving Land, by Hollow Ditching, Draining, Double Plowing, Grasing, Enclosing, Watering and Manuring. With Particular Directions for the fertilizing of Broom-Ground, Heath-Ground, Furz, Bushey, and Chilturn-Ground: Also the Method of Improvement, by assorting proper Plants to Lands, and of shifting of Crops. To which is added, Several Particulars relating to the Preservation of the Game; and stated Accounts of the Expence and Profits of Arable, Pasture, Meadow and Wood Lands. Adorn'd with cuts. By R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F.R.S.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: MDCCXXVII. [1727]- Books
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A complete body of husbandry; collected from the practice and experience of the most considerable farmers in Britain. Particularly setting forth the various ways of improving land, by hollow ditching, dreining, double plowing, grafing, enclosing, watering and manureing. With particular directions for the fertilising of broom-ground, heath-ground, furze, bushey, and chilturn-ground: Also the method of improvement, bu affortting proper plants to lands, and of shifting crops. To which is added several particulars relating to the preservation of the game; and stated accounts of the expence and profits of arable, pasture, meadow and wood lands. Adorn'd with cuts. By R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F.R.S.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: M.DCC.XXVII. [1727]- Books
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New experiments in husbandry, for the month of April. Containing Several Processes of Plowing various Lands. The Transcendent Uses of the late invented Hertfordshire-Dourle-Plough. The Improvements of Grain, Grasses, Manures, and Trees. The Prevention and Cure of Rotten-Sheep; also of the Red-Water Foot-Rot, &c. Keeping of Hogs, Cows, and Horses, from Diseases. The Bites of Jockeys, exposed. Of Pickling Pore, and the proper Vessels to keep it in. The Breeding of Fowls. A New invented Rowl. Several Letters concerning Husbandry, and the Author's Answers. With other Beneficial Matters tending to the Improvement of this most Useful Science. By William Ellis, of Little-Gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M.DCC.XXXVI. [1736]- Books
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The modern husbandman: or, The practice of farming: As it is now carried on by the most accurate farmers in several counties of England. For the month of May. Containing the following particulars: viz. I. Of ploughs and plowing. II. Of barley, wheat, &c. III. Of weeds, and their cure. IV. Of manures and dressings proper for this month. V. Of artificial grasses. VI. Of bulls, cows, and calves. VII. Of cheese. VIII. Of butter. IX. Of hogs. X. Of sheep. XI. Miscellaneous matters in husbandry. XII. Of turneps; a farther account of them. XIII. Of making and repairing roads. XIV. Of horses, mares, and colts. XV. Of trees and insects. By William Ellis, of Little Gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: MDCCXLII [1742]