The complete farmer: or, a general dictionary of husbandry in all its branches; : containing the various methods of cultivating and improving every species of land, according to the precepts of both the old and new husbandry. Comprising every thing valuable in the best writers on this subject, viz. Linnaeus, Chateauvieux, the Marquis of Turbilly, Platt, Evelyn, Worlidge, Mortimer, Tull, Ellis, Miller, Hale, Lisle, Roque, Mills, Young, Marshall, &c. &c. Together with a great variety of new discoveries and improvements. Also the whole business of breeding, managing, and fattening cattle and poultry of all kinds; and the most approved manner of curing the various diseases to which they are subject. Together with the manner of raising bees, and of acquiring large quantities of wax and honey, without destroying those laborious insects. Also the management of vines, and the best method of making all sorts of wines. Illustrated with a great variety of copper-plates, accurately engraved; exhibiting all the instruments used in husbandry; particularly those lately invented, as well as those presented to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. in London; many of which have never yet appeared in a work of this nature. /
Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (Great Britain)
London, : Printed for T. Longman, B. Law, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, R. Baldwin, W. Otridge, and W. Lowndes.,
[1793].
Date from frontispiece.
Text in two columns.
ESTC
Agriculture
Gardening
Bee culture
Also reproduced on microfilm. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, Inc., 1976. Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature ; reel 1524, no. 15586.