The practical farmer, or, The Hertfordshire husbandman : containing many new improvements in husbandry / by William Ellis.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.

Series:

• Making of the modern world
• Making of the Modern World

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Agriculture--Early works to 1800.
• Agriculture.
• Farm management--Early works to 1800.
• Agriculture--England.
• Farm management.
• England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

The third edition.

Other Title:

• Practical farmer
• Hertfordshire husbandman

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for T. Astley and S. Austen, 1738.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

• 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 ...
• III. Of the great improvement of barley ...
• IV. Of increasing crops of pease and beans by horse-houghing
• V. Of trefoyle, clover, lucerne, and other foreign grasses
• VI. A new method to improve land at a small expence, with burnt clay
• VII. Of the management of cows, sheep ...
• VIII. How to keep pigeons and tame rabbits to advantage
• IX. A new method of planting and improving fruit-trees in ploughed-fields
• X. Of various manures and dungs, proper for every soil
• XI. Of the usefulness, culture, method of raising, drying, and the virtues of hops
• XII. Of foreign wheats
• XIII. General observations on the year 1734
• XIV. A comparison of different methods of farming in several countries.

Notes:

• Part 2 has separate t.p. with imprint: London: Printed for W. Bickerton, 1732.
• Includes index (8 p., 4th group).
• Publisher's advertisements (p. [1]-[5], 2nd group).
• Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London.
• Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 07561.
• Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements. s2005 miunns

OCLC:

65344341

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.