Rural oeconomy; or, Essays on the practical parts of husbandry
Subtitle: designed to explain several methods of conducting different farms; including hints to gentlemen farmers relative to the oeconomical management of their business; containing, among other enquiries: of that proportioned farm, which is the most profitable; of the best method of conducting farms that consist of all grass, or all of arable land; of the means of keeping the year round the most cattle on a given quantity of land; the oeconomical conduct of gentlemen farmers; of the cheapest way of manuring land; of the comparative profit of farming different soils; of the new husbandry; of periodical publications concerning rural oeconomics; to which is added, the rural Socrates: being memoirs of a country philosopher
By: by the author of The farmer's letters
Contributors: Hirzel, Hans Caspar, 1725-1803
Edition: 2nd ed., corrected.
Publisher: Printed for T. Becket
Published: 1773
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
Subjects: Agriculture; Early works to 1800; Philosophy
Other titles: Rural oeconomy; Essays on the practical parts of husbandry; Rural economy; Rural oeconomy; or, Practical essays; Rural Socrates.
Notes: "The rural Socrates; or, A description of the oeconomical and moral conduct of a country philosopher / written in German by M. Hirzel ... 2nd ed. 1764": p. [237]-375. [The country philosopher: Jakob Gujer, called Kliyogg].

Attributed to Arthur Young. Cf. NUC-pre56.

Translation of: Wirthschaft eines philosophischen Bauers.

Caption title: Rural oeconomy; or, Practical essays.

English translation from the French version of The rural Socrates (Le Socrate rustique); Originally written in German.