The English improver, or, A new survey of husbandry : discovering to the kingdome that some land, both arrable and pasture, may be advanced double or treble, other land to a five or tenfold and some to a twentyfold improvement, yea some not now worth above one or two shillings per acree be made worth thirty or forty, if not more / clearly demonstrated from principles of sound reason, ingenuity, and late but most certaine reall experiences by Walter Blith ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blith, Walter, active 1649.

Series:

Making of the modern world

Making of the Modern World

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land capability for agriculture--England--Early works to 1800.

Land capability for agriculture.

Soil productivity--England--Early works to 1800.

Soil productivity.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

English improver

New survey of husbandry

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for J. Wright ..., 1649.

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text file

Notes:

"Held forth under six peeces of improvement: 1. by floating or watering such lands as are capable thereof; 2. by reducing boggy or drowned land to sound pasture; 3. by such a way of ploughing and corneing old courser pasture, as not to impoverish it, and by such a method of enclosure, as shall provide for poore and all interests without depopulation; 4. by discovering divers materials for soyle and compost, with the nature and use of them, as both tillage and pasture be advanced as high as promised; 5. by such a new plantation of divers sorts of woods, as in twenty yeares, they shall rise more than in forty yeares naturally; 6. by a more moderate improvement of other sorts of lands, according to their capacities they lye under by more common experiences."

Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 01005.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements. s2005 miunns

OCLC:

65320874

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