Intending to retire from the bustle of a town life, to a small seat a few miles in the country, consisting of a comfortable house, offices, garden, and 56 acres of arable land with a clay loam rather impoverished, but knowing nothing of husbandry from experience ... I consult practical farmers ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 48064.
Publisher: Printed by Charles Cist
Published: 1797
Place of publication: [Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Agriculture -- United States.; Farm management -- United States.
Other titles: Intending to retire from the bustle of a town life ..; Commerce feeds the passions, agriculture calms them.
Notes: A proposed design for land use; signed on p. 8: B. July, 1797. Attributed to John Beale Bordley by Bristol.

Title taken from opening lines of text; preceded by two lines of quotation: Commerce feeds the passions, agriculture calms them.

Ascribed to the press of Charles Cist by Bristol.

Table of "the order of cultivation, and of crops" printed on folded leaf and numbered 9 and 10.

Bristol B9869.

Shipton & Mooney 48064.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 48064)