The farmer's instructor; or, the husbandman and gardener's useful and necessary companion being a new treatise of husbandry, gardening, and other curious matters relating to country affairs, containing a plain and practical method of improving all sorts of meadow, pasture, and arable land, &c., and making them produce greater crops of all kinds, and at much less than the present expence, ... with many new, useful, and curious improvements, never before published / First begun by Samuel Trowell, and now compleated with a supplement to every chapter on husbandry; by William Ellis.

Trowell, Samuel

Date:: 1750

Credit: The farmer's instructor; or, the husbandman and gardener's useful and necessary companion being a new treatise of husbandry, gardening, and other curious matters relating to country affairs, containing a plain and practical method of improving all sorts of meadow, pasture, and arable land, &c., and making them produce greater crops of all kinds, and at much less than the present expence, ... with many new, useful, and curious improvements, never before published / First begun by Samuel Trowell, and now compleated with a supplement to every chapter on husbandry; by William Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Juft Puhlijhed, by tie fame AUTHOR. 4 THE Country Houfewlfe’s Family Companion: or Profitable Directions for whatever relates to the Management and good CEconemy of the Domeftick Concerns of a Country Life, Accor¬ ding to the Prefent Practice of the Country Gentleman’s, the Yeo¬ man’s, the Farmer’s, See. Wives in the Counties of Hertford, Bucks, and other Parts of England: Shewing, How great Savings may be made in Houfekeeping : And wherein, among many others, the fol¬ lowing Heads are particularly treated of and explained : I. The Pre- fervation and Improvement of Wheat, Barley, Rye, Oats, and o- ther Meals; with Directions for making feveral Sorts of Bread, Cakes, Puddings, Pies, &c. II. Frugal Management of Meats, Fruits, Roots, and all Sorts of Herbs; bell Methods of Cookery ; and a Cheap Way to make Soups, Sauces, Gruels, &c- III. Directions for the Farm Yard; with the bell Method of increafing and fat- Ding all Sorts of Poultry, as Turkies, Geefe, Ducks, Fowls, Sec. IV. The bed Way to breed and fatten Hogs; fundry curious and cheap Methods of preparing Hogs Meat; Directions for curing Bacon, Brawn, Pickled Pork, Hams, &c. with the- Management of Sows and Pigs. V. The belt Method of making Butter and Cheefe, with feveral curious Particulars containing the whole Management of the Dairy. VI. The feveral Ways, of making good Malt; with Directions for brewing good Beer, Ale, &c. With Variety of Curious Matters, Wherein are contained frugal Methods for victual¬ ling Harveft-meil, Ways to deltroy all Sorts of Vermin, the belt Manner of fuckling and fattening Calves, Prelcriptions for curing all Sorts of Diltempers in Cattle, with Variety of curious Receits for Pickling, Preferving, Diddling, &c. The Whole founded on near thirty Years Experience, by W. Ellis, Farmer, at Little Gad - defden, near Hempfted, Hertfordfftire, Printed for James Hodges, at the Looking-glafs, facing St. Mag¬ nus Church, London-Bridge; and B. Collins, Bookfeller, at SaliL bury. 275 o. Where is likenvife to he had, Juft Puhlijhed. SPeCtacle De La Nature : Or Nature declineated; being Philofo- phical Converfations, wherein the Wonderful Works of Pro¬ vidence in the Animal, Vegetable and Mineral Creation, are laid open ; the Solar and Planetary Syftem, and whatever is curious in the Mathematicks explain’d. The whole being a complete Courfe of natural and Experimental Philofophy calculated for the Inftruc- tion of Youth, in order to prepare them for an eafy Knowledge of Natural Hiflory, and create in their Minds an exalted Idea of the Wifdom of the great Creator, tranflated from the Original French, by John Kelly of the Inner i emple, Efq; D. Bellamy of St.John’s College Oxford; and John Sparrow, Surgeon and Mathe¬ matician : The whole embellifh’d with great variety of Copper Plates beautifully engrav’d by the bell Hands. The Third Edition with large Additions, carefully reviled and Corrected, with a particular Table of Contents, and a general copious Index to each Volume,

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