The practical farmer: or, The Hertfordshire husbandman: 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 several sorts of wheat, and the soil proper for each. III. Of the great improvement of barley, by brineing the seed, after an entire new method, and without expence. IV. Of increasing crops of pease and beans by horse-houghing. V. Of trefoyle, clover, lucerne, and other foreign graffes. 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

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  • The practical farmer: or, The Hertfordshire husbandman: 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 several sorts of wheat, and the soil proper for each. III. Of the great improvement of barley, by brineing the seed, after an entire new method, and without expence. IV. Of increasing crops of pease and beans by horse-houghing. V. Of trefoyle, clover, lucerne, and other foreign graffes. 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
  • Practical farmer. Part 1
  • Hertfordshire husbandman
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London : printed for Weaver Bickerton, at Lord Bacon's Head, without Temple-Bar; Thomas Astley, at the Rose; and Stephen Austen, at the Angel and Bible, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, M.DCC.XXXII. [1732] The second edition; with additions, which those who bought the former, may have gratis.; ..
Added name
Astley, Thomas, -1759, bookseller.; Austen, Stephen, -1750, bookseller.
Publication year
1732
ESTC No.
T16818
Grub Street ID
206113
Description
171, [5] p. ; 8°.
Note
The ornaments are those used by Henry Woodfall

P.98 misnumbered 8

Price below imprint: Price two shillings, stitch'd

With five final pages of advetisements

Signatures: A-L]8.