The modern husbandman: or the practice of farming: as it is now carried on by the most accurate farmers in several counties of England. For the month of February. Containing the following particulars, viz. 1. The author's discovery of four sorts of excellent new wheats, two whereof exceed the common red lamas for making the finest flour and bread. II. The good and bad properties of sowing wheat in February. III. Several accounts of sowing and setting of beans and pease. IV. Crops and corn, how they may got seven years together, without dung or manure. V. How farming may be carried on to great profit many places, without any other live cattle than horses. VI. Copies of several curious letters relating to husbandry, with the author's answers. VII. An account of an excellent new invented horse-break, that ploughs and choughs all at once. VIII. The Irish and English ways of improving potatoe-plantations. IX. An new account of grass-seeds. X. How arable lands are to be improved by converting t

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  • The modern husbandman: or the practice of farming: as it is now carried on by the most accurate farmers in several counties of England. For the month of February. Containing the following particulars, viz. 1. The author's discovery of four sorts of excellent new wheats, two whereof exceed the common red lamas for making the finest flour and bread. II. The good and bad properties of sowing wheat in February. III. Several accounts of sowing and setting of beans and pease. IV. Crops and corn, how they may got seven years together, without dung or manure. V. How farming may be carried on to great profit many places, without any other live cattle than horses. VI. Copies of several curious letters relating to husbandry, with the author's answers. VII. An account of an excellent new invented horse-break, that ploughs and choughs all at once. VIII. The Irish and English ways of improving potatoe-plantations. IX. An new account of grass-seeds. X. How arable lands are to be improved by converting t
  • Modern husbandman. Part 2
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Imprint
London : printed for, and sold by T. Osborne, in Gray's-Inn; and M. Cooper, at the Globe, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1744.
Publication year
1744
ESTC No.
T27822
Grub Street ID
259659
Description
viii,151,[1]p. ; 8°.
Note
Also issued as part of 'The modern husbandman', London, 1744.