Drill husbandry perfected : with other interesting circumstances in agriculture, respecting the most effectual methods of producing the greatest crops of corn, which any given lands are capable of producing : with an elegant copper-plate of a new invented patent machine, for drilling land, and sowing or planting therein, in any given quantity, and at any given depth, and distance, all sorts of grain, pulse, and seeds, with or without ground or pulverized manure, viz. soot, salt, ashes, &c. mixed therewith, and harrowing the same : with a new invented hand-hoe / by the Rev. James Cooke, M.A., S.A.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooke, James, inventor

Contributor:

Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drills (Planting machinery)--Early works to 1800.

Drills (Planting machinery).

Agriculture--England--Early works to 1800.

Agriculture.

Tillage--Early works to 1800.

Tillage.

Agricultural machinery--Early works to 1800.

Agricultural machinery.

England.

Physical Description:

iii, that is, iv pages, 3 unnumbered pages-42 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Cooke's Drill husbandry perfected

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Printed by J. Imison ... : And, sold by Mr. Murray ..., London, and by most of the principal booksellers in Great Britain, [1784?]

Notes:

Printing date suggested from ms. date on t.p. of Penn Library copy.

Signatures: pi² [A]⁴ B-E⁴.

Local Notes:

Penn Library copy dated 1784 in ms. on t.p.

Bound with: Moore, Thomas. The great error of American agriculture exposed. Baltimore : Printed by Bonsal and Niles, for the author, 1801. [Item 4 of 8]

Cited in:

ESTC N7495

OCLC:

70240472