The English improver, or, A new survey of husbandry
Subtitle: discovering to the kingdome that some land, both arrable and pasture, may be advanced double or treble, other land to a five or tenfold and some to a twentyfold improvement, yea some not now worth above one or two shillings per acree be made worth thirty or forty, if not more
By: clearly demonstrated from principles of sound reason, ingenuity, and late but most certaine reall experiences by Walter Blith ...
Series: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature -- no. 1005; Making of the Modern World; Early English books online; Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 525:5
Publisher: Printed for J. Wright ...
Published: 1649
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Land capability for agriculture; Early works to 1800; Soil productivity; Agriculture
Other titles: English improver.; New survey of husbandry.
Notes: "Held forth under six peeces of improvement: 1. by floating or watering such lands as are capable thereof; 2. by reducing boggy or drowned land to sound pasture; 3. by such a way of ploughing and corneing old courser pasture, as not to impoverish it, and by such a method of enclosure, as shall provide for poore and all interests without depopulation; 4. by discovering divers materials for soyle and compost, with the nature and use of them, as both tillage and pasture be advanced as high as promised; 5. by such a new plantation of divers sorts of woods, as in twenty yeares, they shall rise more than in forty yeares naturally; 6. by a more moderate improvement of other sorts of lands, according to their capacities they lye under by more common experiences."

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 01005.

Goldsmiths' Lib. cat., 1005.

Wing B3194.

ESTC R16946

Thomason E.474[10].