Cottage economy
Subtitle: containing information relative to the brewing of beer, making of bread, keeping of cows, pigs, bees, ewes, goats, poultry, and rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the affairs of a labourer's family, to which are added instructions relative to the selecting, the cutting and the bleaching of the plants of English grass and grain, for the purpose of making hats and bonnets, and also instructions for erecting and using ice-houses after the Virginian manner
By: by William Cobbett ; with a preface by G.K. Chesterton
Series: Home economics archive--research, tradition and history; Open Collections Program at Harvard University
Publisher: Peter Davies
Published: 1926
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Agriculture; Handbooks, manuals; Rural Home economics
Notes: "The block on page 185 has been engraved on wood by Eric Gill after the original"--P. xi.

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