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 ..

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bordley, J. B. (John Beale), 1727-1804, author.

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:

1 online resource (8 pages, 1 folded leaf)

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]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

A proposed design for land use; signed on pages 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.

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 48064).

Cited in:

Bristol B9869

Shipton and Mooney 48064

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