Rural oeconomy: or Essays on the practical parts of husbandry.
Subtitle: Designed to explain several of the most important methods of conducting farms of various kinds; including many useful hints to gentlemen farmers, relative to the oeconomical management of their business. Containing, among other enquiries, of that proportioned farm, which is of all others the most profitable. The best method of conducting farms that consist all of grass, or all of arable land. The means of keeping the most cattle the year round on a given quantity of land. The cheapest way of manuring land. Considerations on the oeconomical conduct of gentlemen farmers. The comparative profit of farming different soils. Of experimental agriculture. Of the new husbandry. Of the management of borders of arable fields. 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; ; [Two lines of quotation in Latin]
Contributors: Hirzel, Hans Caspar, 1725-1803.
Edition: The second edition.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 15226.
Publisher: London, printed: Philadelphia: re-printed and sold by James Humphreys, Junr.
Published: 1776
Place of publication: [Philadelphia]
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Agriculture -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Notes: Attributed to Young in the Dictionary of national biography.

Signatures: A-2Gþ́ 2Hþ́(-2H4)

Publisher's prospectus, p. [246]

Evans 15226.

Hildeburn, C.R.  Pennsylvania, 3497.

Rink, E.  Technical Americana, 1096.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 15226)