The practical farmer : or the Hertfordshire husbandman: containing many new improvements in husbandry. I. Of Meliorating the different Soils, and all other Branches of Business relating to a Farm. II. Of the Nature of the several Sorts of Wheat, and the Soil proper for each. III. Of the great Improvement of Barley, by Brineing the Seed, after an entire new Method, and without Expence. IV. Of encreasing Crops of Pease and Beans by Horse-Houghing. V. Of Trefoyle, Clover, Lucerne, and other Forreign Grasses. VI. A new Method to Improve Land at a small Expence, with Burnt Clay. Vii. Of the Management of Cows, Sheep, Suckling of Calves, Lambs, &c. with Means to prevent, and Remedies to cure Rottenness in Sheep. Viii. How to keep Pigeons and Tame Rabbits to Advantage. IX. A new Method of Planting and Improving Fruit-Trees in Plough'd Fields. By William Ellis, Of Little Gaddesden, in Hertfordshire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Standardized Title:

Practical farmer. Part 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--England--Hertfordshire.

Agriculture.

Agriculture--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain.

England--Hertfordshire.

Physical Description:

iv,116 pages ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

Dublin : printed by A Rhames, for R. Gunne near the Ram in Caple-Street, M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T16819.

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