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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Varlo, Charles, approximately 1725-approximately 1795.

Contributor:

Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Early works to 1800.

Agriculture.

Genre:

Subscription lists (Publishing) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Blockly and Merion Society for promoting agriculture and rural oeconomy (RBC copy)

Baxter, Jo. (autograph)(PSPA copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 20 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed for the author, 1785.

Notes:

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].

Local Notes:

PSPA has v. 1 only.

PSPA list of "Subscribers names" on p. [3]-[12] of v. 1.

Cited in:

Evans 19338

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 1100

ESTC W13715

OCLC:

187312978