Agriculture improv'd: or, the practice of husbandry display'd. : Chiefly shewn by facts, perform'd in all sorts of land, according to the old plain, and the new drill, way of farming. In two volumes: containing, a receipt how to improve an acre of barley for six-pence charge. How to improve that noble large fowl the bustard. The nature of pond-insects; also of serpents; and how to cure their venomous bites, &c. How to prevent the mischiefs done to farmers by sparrows. Of St. Timothy's grass, (five feet long) which will mow four times a year. Of night as well as day fishing. Tench-broth, its restorative nature; and how to make it. Mr Worlidge's notes on husbandry commented upon. Of improving of estates, soils, bogs, &c. Of the management of bees. How to prevent damage done to peas by Pigeons, &c. Accounts of several new-invented engines and implements, of great use in husbandry. How farming may be carried on by the drill plough, without dung, manure, or live cattle. How to preserve wheat in graneries, from damps, vermin, &c. How to defend crops of turnep-feed from field-fowls. Of encouragements from landlords to promote the industry of tenants. The present state of bad husbandry in Scotland; with proposals for remedying it. The Cheshire and Lancashire way of managing their wheat and barley crops. Of the bad consequences of wrong manuring, wrong ploughing, &c. Damage done by greedy tenants to themselves and landlords, by ploughing up the poor lands of woulds, downs, and commons. With many other curious and serviceable matters never before published. /
Ellis, William,approximately 1700-1758.
London: : Printed for T. Osborne in Gray's-Inn.,
MDCCXLVI [1745-46]..
Covers the months from May to August, each with separate pagination and register.
Vol. 1 consists of the months of May and June; v.2, July and August. Each month has separate paging and index. June and July have separate t.p. dated 1745.
Titlepage to vol. 2 dated 1745.
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Agriculture
Agriculture
Also available on microfilm. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications,  [1974]. Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature ; no. 8210.