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Chiltern and vale farming explained : according to the latest improvements
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- Creator
- by the author of The practical farmer, or, The hertfordshire husbandman
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- English
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- London : Printed for T. Osborne, 1745
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- 8 unnumbered pages, 400 pages
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- ocm65346399, ocm23070784
- "Truly necessary for all landlords and tenants of either ploughed grass, or wood grounds."
- Attributed to William Ellis by Goldsmiths' Lib. cat. and NUC pre-1956.
- The text of this vol. is the same as that of v. 8 of his Modern husbamdman, 1750. Cf. NUC pre-1956 and Hanson.
- Publisher's advertisement (8 p.) at end.
- Hanson 4476n
- Microfilm. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, [1974]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature ; no. 8139)
- Containing, I. The nature and improvement of the four clays, four loams ... -- II. The nature and improvements of the oak, snewing seven several ways to obtain a wood therof ... -- III. Of the excellency of the white-lamas-wheat ... -- IV. Of natural and artificial grasses, being remarks on a late author's writing on trefoil ... -- V. Of blights and blasts ... -- VI. Of ploughing in general, being a full explanation of broad land plouging ... --VII. Of sowing in general -- VIII. Of seeds, and to know the good from the bad --IX. Of weeds in general, their mischiefs and cures -- X. Of an invaluable liquor never before published ... -- XI. Of a new method of horse-houghing ... -- XII. Of turneps, and how to save them from the slug ... -- XIII. Salt, its several uses on ploughed and sward-grounds ... -- XIV. Of manures in general ...