Observations on the management of flax from the field to the heckle. : With plans of lint mills on a new construction. A method of encreasing their profits, and employing their hands when stopt [sic] for want of water, or otherways---And a form of books, necessary for flax cleaners. Also, a plan of farming books, to answer from five acres, to ten thousand, or any number; pointing out the employment of every person or beasts on the whole, every hour of the day, with the expence of plowing, harrowing, and reaping per acre, thrashing per boll, and the annual profit on each farm, &c. &c..
Forbes family (Monymusk & Pitsligo),former owner.StEdNL
[Edinburgh] : Printed at Edinburgh, to be had of the booksellers, and at the Coffee-Houses, and principal inns of Edinburgh and Glasgow.,
M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]
With a half title page.
(Price two shillings and sixpence.)--at foot of title page.
"A plan of farming books ... 1784." has a separate title page and pagination.
The final 8 pages are printed on folded leaves.
ESTC
Microfilm.
Disbound pamphlet from one of the pamphlet volumes sold in December 2016 from the library at Fettercairn House, Aberdeenshire, home of the Forbes family, baronets of Monymusk and Pitsligo.
Flax
Scotland Edinburgh.