237 results filtered with: Agriculture - Early works to 1800
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An abstract of an essay on tillage and vegetation, being the horse-hoing husbandry explained, and made easy to be understood by the practising farmer: Containing Many Useful Observations in Husbandry, which Very greatly increase the Product of the Corn-Fields, and at the same time very much lessen the common Expences. By Peter Vallavine, Vicar of Preston, near Wingham, in Kent.
Vallavine, Peter.Date: [1747]- Books
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Georgical essays: by A. Hunter, M. D. F. R. S.
Hunter, A. (Alexander), 1729-1809.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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A thesis, wrote upon the most noble and now universally interestive science of agriculture: With those, the humble author's public assertions of possess'd abilities, for changing all sorts of the most spuriously forbidding sour lands (even with, or without tillage) into exceeding milky, mellusive, or otherwise more gregitatively delightful fattening pastures. Together with the very same mutaveal alternative, for as favourably profitable a metamorphose, and that for advantage to all sorts of coarse, or otherwise defectively degenerated meadows, &c. &c. By Abraham Fry.
Fry, Abraham.Date: M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]- Books
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The honour and advantage of agriculture. Translated from the Spanish of Feijos. By a farmer in Cheshire.
Feijoo, Benito Jerónimo, 1676-1764.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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Essays relating to agriculture and rural affairs. ... . The second edition, with large additions. By James Anderson, Farmer At Monks-Hill, Aberdeenshire.
Anderson, James, 1739-1808.Date: M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]- Books
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Dictionaire oeconomique: or, The family dictionary. Containing the most experienced methods of improving estates and of preserving health, with many approved remedies for most distempers of the body of man, cattle and other creatures, and the best means for attaining long life. The most advantageous ways of breeding, feeding and ordering all sorts of domestick animals, as horses, ... The different kinds of nets, snares and engines for taking all sort of fish, birds, and other game. Great variety of rules, directions, and new discoveries, relating to gardening, husbandry, soils and manures of all sorts; ...The best and chespest ways of providing and improving all manner of meats and drinks; ... Means of making the most advantage of the manufactures of soap, starch, spinning, cotton, thread, &c. The methods to take or destory vermin and other animals, injurious to gardening, husbandry, and all rural occonomy; ... An account of the several weights, measures, &c. of metals and minerals, with their preparations and uses. All sorts of rural sports and exercises, conducing to the benefit and innocent enjoyments of life, as also painting in miniature, and divers other arts and terms of art explained, for the entertainment and amusement of gentlemen, ladies, &c. The whole illustrated thoughout with very great variety of figures, for the readier understanding and practising of things to which they belong. Done into English from the second edition, lately printed at Paris, in two volumes, folio, written by M. Chomel: with considerable alterations and improvements. Revised and recommended by Mr. R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F.R.S. In two volumes.
Chomel, Noel, 1632-1712.Date: M.DCC.XXV. [1725]- Books
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A treatise on the culture of the cucumber: shewing a new and advantageous method of cultivating that plant, with full directions for the management thereof, and the Degree of Heat it Requires on Every Day of the Year; and a Meteorological Journal of the Weather and Temperature of the Climate in Lat. 51° 20' North, Long. 0° 1' East of London. To which are Added, Hints and Observations on the Improvement of Agriculture. By James Mcphail, Gardener to the Right Hon. Lord Hawkesbury.
MacPhail, James, active 1785-1805.Date: 1794- Books
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Geographical essays: In which the food of plants is particularly considered, several new composts recommended, and other important articles of husbandry explained, upon the principles of vegetation.
Hunter, A. (Alexander), 1729-1809.Date: 1773- Books
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Geōponika. Geoponicorum, sive de re rustica, libri XX. Cassiano Basso scholastico collectore. Antea Constantino Porphyrogenneto a quibusdam adscripti. Græce & Latine. Græca cum Mss. contulit, prolegomena, notulas, & indices adjecit Pet. Needham Coll. D. Joannis Cantabrig. Socius.
Date: MDCCIV. [1704]- Books
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Annals of agriculture, and other useful arts. Collected and published by Arthur Young, Esq. F.R.S. secretary to the Board of Agriculture, honorary member of the societies of Dublin, Bath, York, Salford, Odiham, South Hente, Kent, and Essex; the Philosophical and Literary Society of Manchester; the Veterinary College of London; the Economical Society of Berne; the Physical Society of Zurich; the American Society of Massachusetts; the Palatine Academy of Agriculture at Manheim; the Imperial Economical Society established as Petersburgh; the Royal and Electoral Economical Society of Celle; associate of the Society of Agriculture at Paris; and corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Agriculture at Florence; and of the Patriotic Society at Milan. Vol. XXXI.
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: 1798- Books
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La seule richesse du peuple, ou moyen de faire baisser le prix de toutes les subsistances, projet utile aux grands comme aux petits, avec un plan de culture.
Date: 1778- Books
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Letter addressed to Sir John Sinclair bart. president of the Board of Agriculture and internal improvement. Respecting the important discovery lately made in Sweden, of a method to extinguish fire, with an Account of the Process Adopted for that Purpose; and Hints of Means for Preserving Timber Used Either in Houses, or in Ship Building, from that Destructive Element. By Mr William Knox, Merchant in Gothenburg.
Knox, William, merchant in Gothenburg.Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]- Books
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The elements of agriculture. By M. Duhamel du Monceau, ... Translated from the original French, and revised by Philip Miller, ... In two volumes. ... Illustrated with fourteen copper-plates.
Duhamel du Monceau, M., 1700-1782.Date: 1764- Books
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Certain ancient tracts concerning the management of landed property reprinted.
Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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Profit and pleasure united; or, the husbandman's magazine. Being a most exact treatise of bulls, oxen, cows, calves, horses, ... with directions for their breeding ... Together with easie plain rules and methods for improving arrable and pasture-lands. To which is added, the art of hawking, hunting, angling, and the noble recreation of ringing. By J. Smith Gent.
Smith, John, active 1684-1704.Date: 1704- Books
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Opuscoli interessanti l'agricoltura.
Paoletti, Ferdinando, 1717-approximately 1801.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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L. Junius Moderatus Columella of husbandry. In twelve books: and his book concerning trees. Translated into English, with several illustrations from Pliny, Cato, Varro, Palladius, and other antient and modern authors.
Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus.Date: M.DCC.XLV. [1745]- Books
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Annals of agriculture, and other useful arts. Collected and published by Arthur Young, Esq. F.R.S. secretary to the Board of Agriculture. Honorary member of the societies of Dublin, Bath, York, Salford, Odiham, Kent, and Essex; the Philosophical and Literary Society of Manchester; the Veterinary College of London; the Economical Society of Berne; the Physical Society of Zurich; the Palatine Academy of Agriculture at Manheim; the Imperial Economical Society established at Petersburgh; the Royal and Electoral Economical Society of Celle; associate of the Royal Society of Agriculture at Paris; and corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Agriculture at Florence; and of the Patriotic Society at Milan. Vol. XXV.
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: 1796- Books
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The country gentleman's vade mecum. Containing an account of the best methods to improve lands, plowing and sowing of corn; reaping, mowing, &c. Hedging, Ditching, and all Sorts of Husbandry. Of Horses, Cattle, Receipts to cure Diseases incident to them, and Instructions in buying and selling of Cattle, breeding of Horses, &c. Of Deer and Parks; Game, Fish and Fishing, Fish-Ponds, &c. Prices of Timber and all Sorts of Building and Workmanship, with the Art of measuring the same, &c. Rules for Management of a Family, Expences in Eating and Drinking; Duty and Places of Servants, &c. Account of Gardening in general, as Soil, Fruit-Trees, Greens, Flowers, and Forrest-Trees, Coppice-Woods, &c. and their Culture. And of Natural Philosophy, &c. in several distinct Chapters. To which is added, a general description of England, and particularly of London, with an Account of the Taxes, Revenues, Government, Great Offices, and Courts of Judicature of England, &c. And legal Observations on the several Chapters throughout the whole. By G. Jacob, Gent.
Jacob, Giles, 1686-1744.Date: [1717]- Books
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Annals of agriculture and other useful arts. Collected and published by Arthur Young, Esq. F.R.S. secretary to the Board of Agriculture, honorary member of the societies of Dublin, Bath, York, Salford, Odiham, South Hants, Kent, and Essex; the Philosophical and Literary Society of Manachester; the Veterinary College of London; the Economical Society of Berne; the Physical Society of Zurich; the American Society of Massachuestts; the Palatine Academy of Agriculture at Manheim; the Imperial Economical Society established at Petersburgh; the Royal and Electorical Economical Society of Celle; associate of the Society of Agriculture at Paris; and corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Agriculture at Florence; and of the Patriotic Society at Milan. Vol. XXXIII.
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: 1799- Books
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Memoirs of agriculture, and other oeconomical arts. By Robert Dossie. ...
Dossie, Robert, -1777.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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The elements of agriculture. By M. Duhamel du Monceau. Of the Royal Academy of Sciences in France, and Fellow of the Royal Society in London, &c. &c. &c. Translated from the original French, and revised by Philip Miller, F.R.S. Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries at Chelsea, and Member of the Botanick Academy at Florence. In two volumes. .... Illustrated with fourteen copper-plates.
Duhamel du Monceau, M., 1700-1782.Date: M DCC LXVII. [1767]- Books
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Agriculture. Roger Treffry, of Beer Barton, near Plymouth, Hath discovered the real cause, with the method of preventing what is commonly called smut-balls, coal-brands, or blacks, amongst wheat, barley, and oats; ...
Treffry, Roger.Date: [1792]- Books
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Annals of agriculture, and other useful arts. Collected and published by Arthur Young, Esq. F.R.S. secretary to the Board of Agriculture; honorary member of the societies of Dublin, Bath, York, Salford, Odiham, and Kent; the Philosophical and Literary Society of Manchester; the Veterinary College of London; the Economical Society of Berne; the Physical Society of Zurich; the Palatine Academy of Agriculture at Manheim; the Imperial Economical Society established at Petersburgh; the Royal and Electoral Economical Society of Celle: associate of the Royal Society of Agriculture at Paris; and corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Agriculture at Florence; and of the Patriotic Society at Milan. Vol. XXIII.
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]- Books
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A review of the corrected agricultural survey of Lincolnshire, by Arthur Young, Esq. Published, in 1799, by authority of the Board of Agriculture; Together with an address to the board, a letter to its secretary, and remarks on the recent publication of John Lord Somerville, and on the subject of inclosures. By Thomas Stone.
Stone, Thomas, -1815.Date: 1800