Rural oeconomy: or Essays on the practical parts of husbandry. : Designed to explain several of the most important methods of conducting farms of various kinds; including many useful hints to gentlemen farmers, relative to the oeconomical management of their business. Containing, among other enquiries, of that proportioned farm, which is of all others the most profitable. The best method of conducting farms that consist all of grass, or all of arable land. The means of keeping the most cattle the year round on a given quantity of land. The cheapest way of manuring land. Considerations on the oeconomical conduct of gentlemen farmers. The comparative profit of farming different soils. Of experimental agriculture. Of the new husbandry. Of the management of borders of arable fields. Of periodical publications concerning rural oeconomics. : To which is added, The rural Socrates, being memoirs of a country philosopher / by the author of The farmer's letters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Arthur, 1741-1820, author.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 15226.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Agriculture.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Prospectuses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 pages, 1 unnumbered page)

Edition:

The second edition.

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : London, printed: Philadelphia: re-printed and sold by James Humphreys, Junr., M,DCC,LXXVI. [1776]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Attributed to Young in the Dictionary of national biography.

Publisher's prospectus, pages [246].

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 15226).

Cited in:

Evans 15226

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3497

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 1096

Contains:

Hirzel, Hans Caspar, 1725-1803. Wirthschaft eines philosophischen Bauers. English.

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