Ellis, William, ca. 1700-1758.
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The practical farmer: or, The Hertfordshire husbandman Containing many new improvements in husbandry. I. Of meliorating the different soils, and all other branches of business relating to a fram. II. Of the nature of the several sorts of wheat, and the soil proper for each. III. Of the great improvement of barley, by brining the seed, after an entire new method, and without expence. IV. Of incerasing crops of peas and beans by horse-hoeing. V. Of trefoyle, clover, lucerne, and other foreign grasses. VI. A new method to improve land at a small expence, with burnt clay. VII. Of the management of cows, sheep, suckling of calves, lambs, &c. with means to prevent, and remedies to cure rottenness in sheep. VIII. How to keep pigeons and tame rabbits to advantage. IX. A new method of planting and improving fruit-trees in plowed fields. X. Of the various manures and dungs proper for every soil. XI. Of the usefulness, Culture, method of raising, drying, and the virtues of hops. XII. Of foreign wheats. XII General observations on the year 1734. XIV. A comparison of different methods of farming in several countries. Part II. By William Ellis, of Little Gaddesdell, in Hertfordshire.
Ellis, William, ca. 1700-1758.Date: M.DCC.XXXV. [1735]- E-books
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A compleat system of experienced improvements, made on sheep, grass-lambs, and house-lambs Or, The country gentleman's, the grasier's, the sheep-dealer's, and the shepherd's sure guide: in the profitable management of those most serviceable creatures, according to the present practice of this author, and the most accurate grasiers, farmers, sheep-dealers, and shepherds of England. Shewing, I. How the best of sheep may be bred. II. How to preserve them from surfeits, scabs, wood-evil, white and red-water, the rot, and all other distempers. III. How to cure sheep when wounded or diseased, particularly when they have the white or red-water, and even the rot, if an early application is made use of as directed; and this by such cheap and ready remedies, that the poorest farmer must be induced to use them, so that there need not be a rotten sheep, or lamb, in the nation. IV. How to preserve sheep from hoving, or sickening, to fat them in the quickest and cheapest manner, and to cause them to have a sweet flesh, while they are fatting on turnips, or rapes, contrary to the nature of those rank plants. V. How to make an hundred ewes take ram in an hour's time, either by artificial, or by natural means, at any time of the year. VI. How to secure lambs from being killed by foxes. VII. How to make the most profit of rotten sheeps carcasses, or those that die by accident. VIII. How to teach dogs six several sorts of discipline, for making them serviceable to shepherds and others. IX. Many impositions exposed relating to sheep and lambs. X. The newest methods of suckling house-lambs, in the greatest perfection. With many other curious and serviceable matters. A work different from all others ever yet published, as it is explained and improved by great numbers of various cases that have really happened; whereby the woollen manufacture, and interest of Great Britain, may be more highly improved, than ever it was yet done, by keeping all sorts of sheep and lambs in the greatest health, though they feed all the while on the worst of moorish, or swampy ground; and causing them to yield, in the wettest seasons, a wool, far exceeding in goodness, that of all nations whatsoever. In three books. By William Ellis, of Little Gadderden, in Hertfordshire.
Ellis, William, ca. 1700-1758.Date: M,DCC,XLIX. [1749]- E-books
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The timber tree improved: or, The best practical methods of improving different lands with proper timber . And those fruit trees whose woods make the most profitable returns to their owners, according to the newest inventions, by the plough, harrow, and other methods most approved of. Containing, I. Seven different ways of improving the oak, with remarks on the same. II. The nature and improvement of the beech. III. To raise a beech wood from seeds and sets. IV. Transplanting large beeches. V. To raise a beech hedge by seeds or sets. VI. Of the nature and improvements of the elm, witch elm, ash, pollard ash, ashen stems, standard ash, walnut, black cherry. VII. Reasons humbly offered for the common use of the black cherry. VIII. Of the horn bean, or horn beech, lime tree, horse chesnut, maple, hazel, firt tree, sycamore, sallow, aps, whitewood, poplar and abel, alder, withy and willow, oziers, white elder, pear tree, &c. By William Ellis, of Little Gaddesdon, near Heamstead, in Hertfordshire.
Ellis, William, ca. 1700-1758.Date: M.DCC.XLI. [1741]- E-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 September. Containing, I. The different ways of plowing, and other managements preparatory to the sowing of wheat in Vale and children lands; also, the method of sowing several sorts of wheat seeds in their proper soils, in drills, in bout, in ridge, and in broad lands. II. Eighteen several cases, proving, how wheat becomes smutty, and how to prevent a farmer's having smutty or proper wheat. III. Several curious observations relating to the sowing clover, and other grass lays, and stubbles, with wheat. IV. To sow rye for a standing crop, or for feeding cattle on its green food in the field. V. The pulling and inning of flax and hemp, with many reasons, to shew how they may be improved at home in the highest perfection; also, the nature and value of Italian and Russia hemps. VI. The picking of hops, and curing them on the cockle-oast, and other kilns, with an account of their good and bad qualities. VII. The English and Irish ways of digging and preserving potatoes in the hardest frosts, and of the great service that the Castronian or Muster potatoe did to the poor Irish, in the famine of 1740. VIII. How a crop of St. Foyns may be enjoyed a year sooner than in the common way of sowing it. IX. How the Gypsy and another sort of vagrants prejudice the farmer, with a history of their lives and actions. X. The profit of sowing the winter thetch in this month, and of gathering and drying saffron. XI. The great advantage of inclosure, shewn by the example of inclosing a common by act of Parliament, to the mutual satisfaction and profit both of the rich lord of the manor and the poor commoner. And also, of the infinite damage the do the poor and the farmer, and the guilt they load themselves with, who unlawfully and unjustly inclose and detain commons from them. To which are added, many other curious and serviceable matters never before published. By Williams Ellis, of Little Gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire.
Ellis, William, ca. 1700-1758.Date: M,DCC,XLIII. [1743]- E-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, ca. 1700-1758.Date: M,DCC,XLIV. [1744]