The English improver, or, A new survey of husbandry
Subtitle: discovering to the kingdome, that some land, both arable and pasture, may be advanced double or treble other land to a five or tenfold, and some to a twenty fold improvement, yea, some now not worth above one, or two shillings, per acree, be made worth thirty, or forty, if not more : clearly demonstrated from principles of sound reason, ingenuity, and late but most certaine reall experiences, held forth under six peeces of improvement ...
By: by Walter Blith ...
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 525:5.
Publisher: Printed for J. Wright ...
Published: 1649
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: Agriculture -- England.; Agriculture -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: English improver; New survey of husbandry; English improver.; New survey of husbandry.
Notes: Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library.

Wing B3193

Available electronically as part of Early English books online.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1975. 1 microfilm reel : 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 525:5)
Table of contents: title: 1. By floating or watering such lands as are capable thereof; title: 2. By reducing boggy or drowned land to found pasture; title: 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; title: 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; title: 5. By such a new plantation of divers sorts of woods, as in twenty yeares, they shall rise more than in forty yeares naturally; title: 6. By a more moderate improvement of other sorts of lands, according to their capacities they lye under, by more common experiences.