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The complete English farmer: Or, Husbandry made perfectly easy, in all its useful branches, containing what every farmer ought to know and practice. Among the various articles treated of in this work, are the following, viz. The management and quality of the different kinds of grass, and making hay. Description of the different sods and of manuring and ploughing land. The cultivation and management of wheat and barley. The culture of oats and rye. Of the farmers stock, &c. The best methods of breeding and rearing Colts, managing horses and mares, and of curing their numerous diseases. The art of rearing calves and lambs, together with the best methods of managing bulls, oxen, cows and sheep, to make them turn out to the greatest advantage. Also several excellent receipts to cure the different disorders they are subject to. The best and most approved method or rearing pigs, fattening swine, and chosing the best sort for breeding and for curing all their disorders. Of breeding rabbits to the best advantage. The whole art of rearing and managing fowls, ducks, goose, tuckies and pigeons, to make them turn out profitable to the farmer, with choice receipts to cure their several distempers. The management of bees, both for profits and pleasure. The cultivation of turnips, beans, peas, tares, flax, plums, &c. &c. &c. And other useful articles, too numerous to mention in a title page. By George Cooke, farmer, at West-End, in Herfordshire.
Cooke, George.Date: [1770?]
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Enclosures, A cause of improved agriculture, of plenty and cheapness of provisions, of population, and of both private and national wealth; being an examination of two pamphlets, entitled, the one, A political enquiry into the consequences of enclosing waste lands, and the Cause of the present high Price of Butcher's Meat, &c. The other, Cursory remarks upon enclosures, by a country farmer; together with Some slight observations upon the Report of the London committee, appointed the 16th of July, 1786, to consider the causes of the present high prices of provisions. By the Rev. J. Howlett, Vicar of Great Dunmow, Essex.
Howlett, John, 1731-1804.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]
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A general treatise of agriculture, both philosophical and practical; displaying the arts of husbandry and gardening: in two parts. Part I. Of husbandry; Treats of the Nature of the Soil, Air, and Situation proper for the Production of Vegetables; the different Methods of Improving Lands; the Manner of Planting and Raising Timber; the Stocking of Farms with Cattle, Poultry, Fish, Bees, Grass, Grain, &c. with Estimates of the Profits arising thereon, &c. Part II. Of gardening; Treats of the Circulation of the Sap in Vegetables; the Generation of Plants, and their Distribution into Genera; the different Kinds and particular Management of Fruit and Fruit-Trees; the Methods of Grafting, Inarching, and Inoculating; the Dispositions of Gardens in General; the Cultivation and Improvement of the Kitchen and Pleasure Gardens; the Manner of managing Exotic Plants and Flowers, and naturalizing them to our Climate; together with an Account of Stoves, Artificial Heats, &c. Originally written by R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F.R.S. And now not only corrected and properly methodised, but adapted to the present practice, and improved with the late Theories, in many large Notes, wherein the several Methods of Culture, and the different Systems of Botany and Vegetation, according to the most approved Writers of the present Period upon these Subjects, are delivered. With a Compleat Index of all the Matters contained in the Book. Illustrated with twenty copper-plates.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]
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Rural improvements: or, essays on the most rational methods of improving estates; accomodated to the soil, climate, and circumstances of England: In which it is clearly demonstrated, that the Landed Estates of this Kingdom may with certainty, and at a very moderate Expence, be increased to double their present Value. The Method of doing which is clearly pointed out, and evinced from undeniable Principles, deduced from a Series of real Practice and Experience. Essay First; Shewing the Improvements that respect the Occupier. Essay Second; The Improvements that respect the Land-Owner. The whole interspersed with a Variety of interesting Reflections and Observations, on the Poor, Poor-Laws, high Prices of Provisions, Labour, decay of Foreign Trade, Population, Corn-Trade, Bounty on Exportation; with rational and proper Measures respecting the same. Also, Remarks On Messrs. Harte, Tull, Miller, Chateauvieux, Compleat English Farmer, Young, Peters, Weston, &c. By a land owner.
Wimpey, Joseph, 1739-1808.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]
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Chiltern and vale farming explained, according to the latest improvements. Necessary for all landlords and tenants of either ploughed-grass, or wood-grounds. Containing, I. The Nature and Improvement of the four Clays, four Loams, four Gravels, four Chalks and three Sands, with an Account of the Nature and Use of Stones in the common Fields. II. The Nature and Improvement of the Oak, shewing seven several ways to obtain a Wood thereof; also of the Beech, the manner of extracting its Sap after three different Methods for its long duration. The Ash, Elm, Witch-Elm, Hornbeam, Maple, Lime, Sycamore, Horse and Sweet Chesnut, Walnut, Hazel, White-Elder, and the Case of the Black-Cherry. And also of Asp, Sallow, Poplar, Alder, and other Aquaticks. III. Of the Excellency of the Whitelamas-Wheat, and all other Wheats, Barley, Rye, Oats, Peas, Beans, Thetches and Tills; with a Copy of two Letters from William Hayton Esq; of Clerkenwell, and the Author's Answer concerning the Propagating of Wheat and Rye in Northumberland. Also an Estimate of the Loss and Profit of Crops for the Year 1732. IV. Of Natural and Artificial Grasses, being Remarks on a late Author's Writings on Trefoyl, Clover, St. Foyne, Lucern, Rye-Grass and Cow-Grass: Also a method how to save the difficult Seed of Lucern. V. Of the Blights and Blasts, their Origin and Nature, their Mischiefs and Preventions. VI. Of Ploughing in general, being a full Explanation of broad Land-Ploughing, Bouting-up, Thoroughing down, Four-Thoroughing, Hacking or Combing; also the Vale way of Ridging up and Casting down: With Descriptions and Dimensions of the Wheel-Ploughs, also of the Foot, Creeper, Kentish, Newmarket, and a New-Invented light Plough that does almost double work with the same Horses that draw a single one. Vii. Of Sowing in general. Viii. Of Seeds, and to know the Good from the Bad. IX. Of Weeds in general, their Mischiefs and Cures. X. Of an Invaluable Liquor never before published, to steep Grain in for Sowing. XI. Of a new Method of Horse-Houghing, its Advantages and Disadvantages. XII. Of Turneps, and how to save them from the Slug, Fly and Caterpillar. XIII. Its several Uses on Ploughed and Sward-Grounds, and of the Quantities that may be necessarily consumed in one Year, by a fifty Pound a year Farmer. XIV. Of Manures in general, their Nature and Uses on proper Soils, &c. By William Ellis, Of Little Gaddesden in Hertfordshire, Author of The Practical Farmer, or Hertfordshire Husbandman.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: [1733]
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A practical treatise of husbandry: wherein are contained, many useful and valuable experiments and observations in the new husbandry, collected during a series of years, by the celebrated M. Duhamel du Monceau, Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, Fellow of the Royal Society, London, &c. Also, the most approved practice of the best English farmers, in the Old Method of Husbandry. With copper-plates of several new and useful Instruments.
Duhamel du Monceau, M., 1700-1782.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]
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Minutes of agriculture, made on a farm of 300 acres of various soils, near Croydon, Surry. To which is added, a digest, wherein The Minutes are Systemized and Amplified; and elucidated by drawings of New Implements, a Farm-Yard, &c. The whole being published as a sketch of the actual business of a farm; as Hints to the Inexperienced Agriculturist; as a Check to the Present False Spirit of Farming; and as an overture to scientific agriculture. By Mr. Marshall.
Marshall, Mr. (William), 1745-1818.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]
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A six months tour through the North of England. Containing, an account of the present state of agriculture, manufactures and population, in several Counties of this Kingdom. Particularly, I. The Nature, Value, and Rental of the Soil. II. The Size of Farms, with Accounts of their Stock, Products, Population, and various Methods of Culture. III. The Use, Expence, and Profit of several Sorts of Manure. IV. The Breed of Cattle, and the respective Profits attending them. V. The State of the Waste Lands which might and ought to be cultivated. VI. The Condition and Number of the Poor, with their Rates, Earnings, &c. Vii. The Prices of Labour and Provisions, and the Proportion between them. Viii. The Register of many curious and useful Experiments in Agriculture, and general Practices in rural Oeconomics communicated by several of the Nobility, Gentry, &c. &c. Interspersed With Descriptions of the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry; and other remarkable Objects: Illustrated with Copper Plates of such Implements of Husbandry, as deserve to be generally known; and Views of some picturesque Scenes, which occurred in the Course of the Journey. In four volumes. ...
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]
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A treatise on agriculture, intitled the Yorkshire farmer. In two volumes. This treatise explains and exemplifies ... methods of husbandry, and of reclaiming bog and mountain ... Also a monthly kalendar of works ... with several cuts of machines, tools, &c. Likewise ... offered to the legislature, and friends of Ireland, a scheme for maintaining the poor thereof. ... By Charles Varley.
Varlo, Charles, approximately 1725-approximately 1795.Date: 1766
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Annals of agriculture, and other useful arts. Collected and published by Arthur Young, Esq. F. R. S. Honorary Member of the Societies of Dublin, Bath, York, Manchester, and Odiham; the Oeconomical Society of Berne; the Physical Society of Zurich; the Palatine Academy of Agriculture at Manheim; and the Imperial Oeconomical Society established at Petersburg. Vol. IV.
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: M.DCC.LXXXV. [1785]
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General view of the agriculture and rural economy of Anglesey. With observations on the means of improving it, by George Kay. Drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement.
Kay, George.Date: 1794
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The art of husbandry. Part II. Containing such additions as are proper for the husbandman and gardiner: Placed Under their common Heads; according to the Method of the First Part. To which is added a Kalender, shewing what is to be done every month in the Year in the Flower-Garden, with an Index to the Whole. By John Mortimer, Esq;
Mortimer, J. (John), 1656?-1736.Date: 1712
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The complete English farmer: or, husbandry made perfectly easy, in all its useful branches. Containing what every Farmer ought to know and practise. Among the various Articles treated of in this Work, are the following, viz. The Management and Qualities of the different Kinds of Grass, and making Hay. Description of the different Soils and of manuring and ploughing Land. The Cultivation and Management of Wheat and Barley. The Culture of Oats and Rye. Of the Farmer's Stock, &c. The best Methods of Breeding and rearing Colts, managing Horses and Mares, and of curing their numerous Diseases. The Art of rearing Calves and Lambs, together with the best Methods of managing Bulls, Oxen, Cows and Sheep, to make them turn out to the greatest Advantage. Also several excellent Receipts to cure the different Disorders they are subject to. The best and most approved Method of rearing Pigs, fattening Swine, and chusing the best Sort for breeding, and for curing all their Disorders. Of Breeding Rabbits to the best Advantage. The whole Art of rearing and managing Fowls, Ducks, Geese, Turkies and Pigeons, to make them turn out profitable to the Farmer, with choice Receipts to cure their several Distempers. The Management of Bees, both for Profit and Pleasure. The Cultivation of Turnips, Beans, Peas, Tares, Flax, and Hemp, &c. &c. &c. And other useful Articles, too numerous to mention in a Title Page. By George Cooke, Farmer, at West End, in Hertfordshire.
Cooke, George.Date: [1772?]
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The description and use of the new invented patent universal sowing machine, for broad-casting or drilling every king of grain, pulse, and seed, Particularly beans, pease, tares, wheat, barley, clover, oats, rye, cole-seed, hemp, flax, canary, rape, lucerne, tresoil, turnips, &c. with anregularity not to be equalled by any other method; by which the produce of every crop will be greatly increased; and, at the same time a very considerable saving made in the seed, and in the expence attending the culture. By John Horn.
Horn, John, active 1784-1785.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]
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The new and complete English farmer. Shewing the management and cultivation of wheat, barley, oats, grasses, &c. &c. Also, how to breed and rear horses, and all sorts of cattle, fowls, pigeons, &c. &c.
Hogg, William.Date: 1798
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Letters and papers on agriculture, planting, &c. selected from the correspondence-book of the Society instituted at Bath, for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce, within the Counties of Somerset, Wilts, Glocester, and Dorset, and the City and County of Bristol. To which is added, an appendix; containing, a proposal for the further improvement of agriculture; By a Member of the Society; and a translation of Mons. Hirzel's letter to Dr. Tissot, in Answer to Mons. Linguet's Treatise on Bread-Corn and Bread. By another Member of the Society.
Bath and West of England Society.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]
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The rural economy of the Midland counties; including the management of livestock, in Leicestershire and its environs: together with minutes on agriculture and planting in the district of the Midland station. By Mr. Marshall.
Marshall, Mr. (William), 1745-1818.Date: 1796
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A short address to the yeomanry of England, and others. By John Somerville, Esq. Member Of The Board Of Agriculture.
Somerville, John Southey Somerville, Baron, 1765-1819.Date: M,DCC,XCV. [1795]
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A six months tour through the north of England. Containing, an account of the present state of agriculture, manufactures and population, in several counties of this kingdom. Particularly, I. The Nature, Value, and Rental of the Soil. II. The Size of Farms, with Account of their Stock, Products, Population, and various Methods of Culture. III. The Use, Expence, and Profit of several Sorts of Manure. IV. The Breed of Cattle, and the respective Profits attending them. V. The State of the Waste Lands which might and ought to be cultivated. VI. The Condition and Number of the Poor, with their Rates, Earnings &c. Vii. The Prices of Labour and Provisions, and the Proportion between them. Viii. The Register of many curious and useful Experiments in Agriculture, and general Practices in rural Oeconomics communicated by several of the Nobility, Gentry, &c. &c. Interspersed with Descriptions of the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry; and other remarkable Objects: Illustrated with Copper Plates of such Implements of Husbandry, as deserve to be generally known; and Views of some picturesque Scenes, which occurred in the Course of the Journey. Experiments on Rearing and Fattening of Hogs. As laid before the Society of Arts, &c. In three volumes. ...
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]
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The husbandman's jewel, Directing How to Improve Land from 10l. per Annum, to 50l. with small charge by Planting. Making Cyder as good as Canary, for 5d a Quart or less; To Improve Land by draining, and by Hemp, Saffron, Liquorice; To Brew Ale and Beer, make Cyder, Meed, Mum, Metheglin, and other Liquors, to order Bees and Silk-Worms; Destroy Vermin &c, To which are added, the Arts of Angling, Hawking, Fowling, Ringing, &c, Directions to cure all diseases, of Horses, Oxon, Cows, Bulls, Calves, Sheep, Lambs, Goats, Swine, Dogs, Conies, Hares, Poultry and singing Birds at 12d. charge; To Improve Clover and St. Foin; To make Table drink for families, both sick and well, at a Farthing a Gallon worth Gold, good against all Distempers; And to cure all outward Sores or Pains, Aches, &c, at a Penny charge, with divers other matters.
Date: [1720?]
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The whole art of husbandry: or, The way of managing and improving of land. Being a full collection of what hath been writ, either by ancient or modern authors: with many additions of new experiments and improvements not treated of by others. As also, an account of the particular sorts of husbandry used in several counties; with proposals for its farther improvement. To which is added, the country-man's kalendar, what he is to do every month in the year. By J. Mortimer, Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society.
Mortimer, J. (John), 1656?-1736.Date: M.DCC.XXI. [1721]
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The farmer's guide in hiring and stocking farms. Containing an examination of many subjects of great importance both to the common husbandman, in hiring a Farm; and to a gentlemen on taking the Whole or Part of his Estate into his own Hands. Particularly, The Signs whereby to judge of Land. The Points to be attended to in hiring a Farm. The Quantity of Land of every Sort proportioned to a given Sum of Money. The most advantageous Method of disposing of any Sum from 50 l. to 20,000 l. in Husbandry on cultivated or uncultivated Soils. The Means of rendering Agriculture as profitable to Gentlemen, as to common Farmers; and as beneficial a Profession as any other. Hints to those Gentlemen who farm for Pleasure alone. Also, plans of farm-yards, and sections of the necessary buildings. In two volumes. By the author of the Farmer's letters. ...
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: M,DCC,LXX. [1770]
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Campania Foelix. Or, a discourse of the benefits and improvements of husbandry: containing directions for all manner of tillage, pasturage, and plantation; As also for the making of Cyder and Perry. With some Considerations upon I. Justices of the Peace, and Inferior Officers. II. On Inns and Alehouses. III. On Servants and Labourers. IV. On the Poor. To which are added, two essays: I. Of a country-house. II. Of the fuel of London. By Tim. Nourse, Gent.
Nourse, Timothy, -1699.Date: 1706
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A six months tour through the North of England. Containing, an account of the present state of agriculture, manufactures and population, in several counties of this kingdom. Particularly, I. The nature, value, and rental of the soil. II. The size of farms, with accounts of their stock, products, population, and various methods of culture. III. The use, expence, and profit of several sorts of manure. IV. The breed of cattle, and the respective profits attending them. V. The state of the waste lands which might and ought to be cultivated. VI. The condition and number of the poor, with their rates, earnings, &c. VII. The prices of labour and provisions, and the proportion between them. VIII. The register of many curious and useful experiments in agriculture, and general practices in rural occonomics, communicated by several of the nobility, gentry, &c. &c. Interspersed with descriptions of the seats of the nobility and gentry; and other remarkable objects: illustrated with copper plates of such implements of husbandry, as deserve to be generally known; and views of some picturesque scenes, which occurred in the course of the journey. In four volumes.
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]
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A treatise on agriculture, intitled the Yorkshire farmer. In two parts. This treatise explains and exemplifies in a simple and demonstrative Manner, the several useful methods of husbandry, and of reclaiming bog and mountain. Also a monthly calendar of works to be done, as they come in Season throughout the Year. With several cuts of machines, and tools, &c. Likewise here is humbly offered to the legislature, and Friends of Ireland, a scheme for maintaining the poor thereof. By Charles Varley.
Varlo, Charles, approximately 1725-approximately 1795.Date: 1765