Cultivation of plants and animals to provide useful products

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Agriculture: a plan for better drainage of fields. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1803.

A woman with shears holding a sheep; representing June. Engraving.

Agriculture: peasants, ploughs and carts of Sardinia. Coloured engraving by A.J. Lallemand after Gonin after Cominotti.

Maison rustique, or the covntrey farme / compiled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens and John Liebault ... and translated into English by Richard Svrflet ... Also a short collection of the hunting of the hart, wilde bore, hare, fox, gray, cony; of birds and faulconrie.

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.

Bedford hospital: view of grounds. Lithograph after J. Sunman Austin, 1850.

Agriculture: a Chinese rice plantation, with workers transplanting the rice. Engraving by T.A. Prior, c. 1840, after T. Allom.

A country scene with many activities depicted: these include, from left to right, picking cherries, bathing, hay-making, hunting, and eating and drinking. Engraving by M. Merian after S. Vrancx.

Christ winnowing evil from the human heart; a penitent bathing in the blood and water from Christ's side; an angel locking a dragon in hell. Engraving by H. Goltzius, 1578.

The milk marketing fraud / The Vegan Society.

Factory-farming of eggs. Engraving, 17--.

A girl with a basket gathering mushrooms in a watermeadow. Engraving by Belvedere, 1802, after R. Westall.

A boy sitting on a fence, scaring away crows with a pair of clappers. Coloured line block after W. Bromley.

Cours complet d'agriculture, théorique, pratique, économique, et de médecine rurale et vétérinaire; suivi d'une méthode pour étudier l'agriculture par principes: ou dictionnaire universel d'agriculture / par une société d'agriculteurs, et rédigé par M. l'abbé Rozier.

Formula for profit.

Science strategy, 1998-2001 / CHABOS ; editors Ian Bremner & T. Jeff Maxwell.

The Impact of biotechnology on agriculture in the European Community to the year 2005 : study prepared for the Directorate General for Agriculture / Commission of the European Communities.

Rules and orders of the Edinburgh Society, for the encouragement of arts, sciences, manufactures, and agriculture

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Rules and orders of the Edinburgh Society, for the encouragement of arts, sciences, manufactures, and agriculture

Agriculture

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Images featuring Agriculture

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Rules and orders of the Edinburgh Society, for the encouragement of arts, sciences, manufactures, and agriculture

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