A course of experimental agriculture : containing an exact register of all the business transacted during five years on near three hundred acres of various soils; including a variety of experiments on the cultivation of all sorts of grain and pulse, both in the old and ne methods; the raising large crops of turneps, cabbages, carrots, potatoes, &c. and several plants not usually cultivated, as food for cattle; and the application of them to feeding or fattening of oxen, cows, horses, hogs, sheep, &c. Also the management of the artificial grasses, particularly Clover, Lucerne, Sainfoine, Burnet, &c. in the Broad-Cast, Drilling, and Transplanting Methods; and their Uses in Feeding several Sorts of Cattle. The Culture of Madder. A particular Comparison between the Old and New Husbandry. The Management of Pasture Lands. On Ploughing, Harrowing, and other Operations of Tillage, relative to the Season, Number, Depth, &c. On the general Feeding and Fattening of Cattle on various Articles of Food; the Expences, Profit, Quantity eat, &c. The Implements of Husbandry, their Defects, Improvements, &c. With other subjects of importance to the country gentleman and farmer. The whole stated in near two thousand original experiments. In two volumes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture.

Agriculture--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Manuals (Handbooks) -- England -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 v. )

Other Title:

Course of experimental agriculture

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, M.DCC.LXX. [1770]

Notes:

Dedication signed: Arthur Young.

With a half-title to each vol.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T80851.

OCLC:

642703803