Agriculture - Early works to 1800

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Certain ancient tracts concerning the management of landed property, reprinted
Date: 1767
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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.
Arthur YoungDate: M,DCC,LXX. [1770]
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Strictures on agriculture . Wherein a discovery of the physical cause of vegetation, of the food of plants, and the rudiments of tillage, is attempted. ... By John Dove.
Dove, John, d. 1772.Date: 1770
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Essai sur les mœurs du tems
ReboulDate: 1768
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The guide of reason, or floating ideas of nature , suited to the philospher, farmer, & mechanic, a miscellany, Containing 65 different subjects, ... By C. Varlo, ..
Varlo, Charles, ca. 1725-ca. 1795.Date: 1798