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 new 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

People / Organizations

• Arthur Young (Author)

Imprint

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

Publication year

1770

ESTC No.

T80851

Grub Street ID

301798

Description

2 v. ; 4°.

Note

Dedication signed: Arthur Young

With a half-title to each vol

Part of v. 1 printed by William Bowyer and John Nichols; their records show 1000 copies printed on demy and 9 on royal.