A compleat system of experienced improvements, made on sheep, grass-lambs, and house-lambs: or, the country gentleman's, the grasier's, the sheep-dealer's, and the shepherd's sure guide: in the profitable management of those most serviceable creatures, according to the present practice of this author, and the most accurate grasiers, farmers, sheep-dealers, and shepherds of England. Shewing, I. How the best of sheep may be bred. ... X. The newest methods of suckling house-lambs, in the greatest perfection. With many other curious and serviceable matters. A work different from all others ever yet published, as it is explained and improved by great numbers of various cases that have really happened; whereby the woollen manufacture, and interest of Great Britain, may be more highly improved, than ever it was yet done, by keeping all sorts of sheep and lambs in the greatest health, though they feed all the while on the worst of moorish, or swampy ground; and causing them to yield, in the wette

People / Organizations

• William Ellis (Author)

Imprint

London : Printed for T. Astley; and sold by R. Baldwin, Jun. at the Rose, in Pater-Noster-Row; and E. Nicolson, at the Angel and Bible, in Ludgate-Street, M,DCC,XLIX. [1749]

Publication year

1749

ESTC No.

T16294

Grub Street ID

201647

Description

viii,[24],384p. ; 8°.

Note

With a leaf of advertisements before the titlepage.