Title: Profit and pleasure united, or, The husbandman's magazene
Subtitle: being a most exact treatise of horses, mares, colts, bulls, oxen, cows, calves, sheep, swine, goats, and all other domestick cattle serviceable, profitable, or usefull to man ... together with easie and plain rules and methods for improving arrable and pasture-lands and the like, improving most sorts of grain to the best advantage, and what is necessary to be observed in sowing and harvesting : the management, improvement and preservation of fruit-trees, plants and flowers : the manner of ordering flax, hemp, safforn and licrish, with directions for the increasing and preserving of bees, and many other things of the like nature : to which is added the art of angling, hunting, hawking, and the noble recreation of ringing, and making fireworks : the whole elustrated with copper cuts
First published: 1684
Subjects: Early works to 1800, Agriculture, Recreation