The practical farmer: or, The Hertfordshire husbandman [electronic resource] : 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 seveal sorts of wheat, and the soil proper for each. III. Of the great improvement of barley, by brineing the seed, after an entire new mehod, and without expence. 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, 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 ploughed-fields. By William Ellis, of Little Gaddesden, in Hertfordshire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellis, William, ca. 1700-1758.

Standardized Title:

Practical farmer. Part 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Agriculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (171,[5]p. )

Edition:

The third edition.

Other Title:

Practical farmer

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Thomas Astley, at the Rose; and Stephen Austen, at the Angel and Bible; in St. Paul's Church-Yard, M.DCC.XXXVIII. [1738]

Notes:

The ornaments are those used by Henry Woodfall.

Price on title page: (Price Two Shillings, Stitch'd.)

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T16822.

OCLC:

508483929