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Intending to retire from the bustle of a town life, to a small seat a few miles in the country, consisting of a comfortable house, offices, garden, and 56 acres of arable land with a clay loam rather impoverished, but knowing nothing of husbandry from experience ... I consult practical farmers ..
Van Pelt - Microtext Microfiche 821 no. 48064
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- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Bordley, J. B. (John Beale), 1727-1804.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 48064.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture--United States.
- Agriculture.
- United States.
- Farm management--United States.
- Farm management.
- Physical Description:
- 8 pages, 1 folded leaf
- 4x6 in.
- monochrome
- service copy
- negative
- Other Title:
- Intending to retire from the bustle of a town life ...
- Commerce feeds the passions, agriculture calms them.
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia] : [Printed by Charles Cist], [1797]
- Notes:
- A proposed design for land use; signed on p. 8: B. July, 1797. Attributed to John Beale Bordley by Bristol.
- Title taken from opening lines of text; preceded by two lines of quotation: Commerce feeds the passions, agriculture calms them.
- Ascribed to the press of Charles Cist by Bristol.
- Table of "the order of cultivation, and of crops" printed on folded leaf and numbered 9 and 10.
- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 48064).
- Cited in:
- Bristol B9869
- Shipton & Mooney 48064
- OCLC:
- 55839894
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