Chiltern and Vale farming explained, according to the latest improvements. By the author of The practical farmer; or, the Hertfordshire husbandman: ... Containing, I. The Nature and Improvement of the four Clays, ... II. The Nature and Improvement of the Oak, ... III. Of the Excellency of the White-Lamas-Wheat, and all other Wheats, ... IV. Of natural and artificial Grasses, ... V. Of Blights and Blasts, their Origin and Nature, their Mischiefs and Preventions. VI. Of Ploughing in general, ... VII. Of sowing in general. VIII. Of Seeds, and to know the good from the bad. IX. Of Weeds in general, their Mischiefs and Cures. X. Of an invaluable Liquor never before published, to steep Grain in for Sowing. XI. Of a new Method of Horse-Houghing, its Advantages and Disadvantages. XII. Of Turneps, and how to save them from the Slug, Fly and Caterpillar. XIII. Salt, its several Uses on Ploughed and Sward-Grounds, and of the Quantities that may be necessarily consumed in one Year, by a fifty Pound a y

People / Organizations

• William Ellis (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for T. Osborne, in Grays-Inn, [1745]

Publication year

1745

ESTC No.

T16826

Grub Street ID

206188

Description

[8],400,[8]p. ; 8°.

Note

Author of the practical farmer = William Ellis

With four final advertisement leaves

Also issued as part of: 'The modern husbandman', London, 1744-47, vol. 8

Below imprint in square brackets: price Four Shillings.