The practical farmer, or, The Hertfordshire husbandman: containing many new improvements in husbandry ... / By William Ellis.

  • William Ellis
Date:
1732
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    9 OR, THE L* t . , ’> s —i. Her tfor dpi re Husbandman Containing many New Improvements in Husbandry. . Of Meli o r at in g the different Soils, and all other Branches of Buhnefs relating to a Farm. I. Of the Nature of the feveral Sorts of Wheat, and the Soil proper for each. II. Of the great Improvement of Barle y, by B r i n e- img the Seed, after an entire new Method, and without Expence. V. Of increasing Crops of Pease and Beans by Hors e-H oughing. r. Of Tr e fo yl e, Clo¬ ver., Lucerne, and o- ther Foreign Grades. VI. A new Method to Im~ prove Land at a fmall Expence, with Burnt Clay. VII. Of the Management of Cows, Sheep, Suek- L I N G of C ALVES, L a m b s, &c. with Means to prevent, and Remedies to cure R o T T e n ness in Sheep. VIII. How to keep Pigeons and T A M E R AB B I T s to Advantage. IX. A new Method of P l a n- t i n g and I m p r o v i ng Fruit-Trees in Ploughed- Fields. By WIL L IA M ELLIS, Of Little Gaddefden, in Herifordjhire. The Second Ctition ; with Additions, Which thofe, who bought the former, may havegratis. LONDON: rinted for Weaver Bicker ton, at Lord Bacon's Head,, without Temple-Bar; Thomas Astley, at the Rofe ; and Stephen Austen, at the Angel and Bible, in .St. Paul's Church-Yard. M.DCC. XXXII. (Price Two Shillings, Stitch'd.)
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