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Certain ancient tracts concerning the management of landed property, reprinted
Date: 1767
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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]
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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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Experiments in agriculture, made under the directions of the Right Honourable and Honourable Dublin Society, in the year 1773 . In which the culture of wheat is carried on in comparative methods, and particularly the importance of sowing wheat upon clover-lay, supported by incontestible facts.-.The infinite value of clover proved by various experiments upon a large scale, both as to its merit in pasture and hay, with a continuation of the minute experiments. By John Wynn Baker, F.R.S. member of the argiculture Society, for the hundred of Salford in the county Palatine of Lancaster, and experimenter in agriculture to the Dublin Society.
Baker, John Wynn, ca. 1730-1775.Date: M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]
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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