A new system of husbandry. : From many years experience, with tables shewing the expence and profit of each crop. That a farm of a 150 acres will clear 402l, 4s. sterl. a year. How to stock farms to the best advantage, how the crops are to follow each other by way of rotation. Of trench-ploughing, shewing how to raise good crops without manure. On rearing, breeding, and a new discovered cheap food for cattle. Of cabbage and turnip husbandry. Of the naked wheat, with many other new discovered grains and grasses suitable for the land and climate of America. Also shewing the great profit of rabbit warrens, and how to stock them. A farmer's and kitchen garden calendar. Of all sorts of manures, marls, clays, sands, &c. A new invented thrashing floor. Also many chosen receipts in physic and surgery, for the human species, and others for the cure of all sorts of cattle. : To which are annexed a few hints humbly offered for the perusal of the legislators of America, shewing how to put a stop to runaway servants. / By C. Varlo, Esq. ; Volume I[-II].

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Varlo, Charles, approximately 1725-approximately 1795.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19338.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture.

Genre:

Subscription lists (Publishing)

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 20 cm (8vo)

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed for the author., 1785. Price 3 dollars in boards and a half bound.

Notes:

Parenthesis substituted for square bracket preceding "Price 3 dollars ..." in imprint transcription.

Vol. 1: [20], iv, [1], 18-87, 98-330, 333-364 p., [1] folded leaf; v. 2: [9], 6-368 p.

Errors in paging: v. 1, page numbers 88-97 and 331-332 omitted; v. 2, p. 212, 273 misnumbered 112, 257.

"Subscribers names."--v. 1, p. [3-16].

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19338).

Cited in:

Evans 19338

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 1100

OCLC:

62797493