The modern farmers guide : In two volumes. A new System of Husbandry, from long experience in several Kingdoms; never before made public. With tables shewing the expence and profit of each Crop; how to stock Farms to the best advantage; how the Crops are to follow each other, by way of rotation; and how to maintain the poor well, and lower the poor-cess likewise, Some Hints, humbly offered to the Legislature, on inclosing commons and open town-fields. With Several Plans of new-invented Machines; some valueable Receipts for the Cure of Cattle, &c. &c. To which is prefixed a short Abstract of the author's Life and Travels. By a real farmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Varlo, Charles, ca. 1725-ca. 1795.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Early works to 1800.

Agriculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2v.,plates,tables )

Other Title:

Modern farmers guide

Place of Publication:

Glasgow : printed for the author, by Robert and Andrew Foulis, M.DCC.LXVIII. [1768]

Notes:

A real farmer = Charles Varlo.

With a four page list of subscribers in vol.I; variant with a fourteen page list of subscribers in vol.I.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Gaskell, 480

English Short Title Catalog, T56257.

OCLC:

642632362