Chiltern and vale farming explained
Subtitle: according to the latest improvements
By: by the author of The practical farmer, or, The hertfordshire husbandman
Series: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature -- no. 8139; Making of the Modern World
Publisher: Printed for T. Osborne
Published: 1745
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Agriculture; Early works to 1800; Trees
Notes: "Truly necessary for all landlords and tenants of either ploughed grass, or wood grounds."

Attributed to William Ellis by Goldsmiths' Lib. cat. and NUC pre-1956.

The text of this vol. is the same as that of v. 8 of his Modern husbamdman, 1750. Cf. NUC pre-1956 and Hanson.

Publisher's advertisement (8 p.) at end.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 08139.

Hanson 4476n
Table of contents: title: Containing, I. The nature and improvement of the four clays, four loams ...; title: II. The nature and improvements of the oak, snewing seven several ways to obtain a wood therof ...; title: III. Of the excellency of the white-lamas-wheat ...; title: IV. Of natural and artificial grasses, being remarks on a late author's writing on trefoil ...; title: V. Of blights and blasts ...; title: VI. Of ploughing in general, being a full explanation of broad land plouging ...; title: VII. Of sowing in general; title: VIII. Of seeds, and to know the good from the bad; title: IX. Of weeds in general, their mischiefs and cures; title: X. Of an invaluable liquor never before published ...; title: XI. Of a new method of horse-houghing ...; title: XII. Of turneps, and how to save them from the slug ...; title: XIII. Salt, its several uses on ploughed and sward-grounds ...; title: XIV. Of manures in general ... .