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• A COURSE OF EXPERIMENTAL AGRICULTURE : CONTAINING An exact REGISTER of all the BUSINESS Transacted during FIVE YEARS On near THREE HUNDRED ACRES of various Soils; Including a Variety of EXPERIMENTS on The CULTIVATION of all Sorts of GRAIN and PULSE, Both in the OLD and NEW Methods; The raising large Crops of TURNEPS, CABBAGES, CARROTS, POTATOES, &c. and several Plants not usually cultivated, as Food for Cattle; and the Application of them to Feeding or Fattening of Oxen, Cows, Horses, Hogs, Sheep, &c. ALSO The Management of the Artificial GRASSES, particularly Clover, Lucerne, Sainfoine, Burnet, &c. in the Broad-Cast, Drilling, and Transplanting Methods; and their Uses in Feeding several Sorts of Cattle. The Culture of MADDER. A particular COMPARISON between the OLD and NEW Husbandry. The Management of PASTURE LANDS. On PLOUGHING, HARROWING, and other Operations of Tillage, relative to the Season, Number, Depth, &c. On the general FEEDING and FATTENING of CATTLE on various Articles of Food; the Expences, Profit, Quantity eat, &c. The IMPLEMENTS of HUSBANDRY, their Defects, Improvements, &c. With other SUBJECTS of importance to the COUNTRY GENTLEMAN and FARMER. THE WHOLE Stated in near TWO THOUSAND ORIGINAL EXPERIMENTS. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I.
  Published: (1770)
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  Published: (1770)
• MINUTES OF AGRICULTURE, MADE ON A Farm of 300 Acres of Various Soils, Near CROYDON, SURRY. TO WHICH IS ADDED, A DIGEST, WHEREIN The MINUTES are Systemized and Amplified; AND ELUCIDATED BY DRAWINGS OF NEW IMPLEMENTS, A FARM-YARD, &c. The Whole being published as A SKETCH of the ACTUAL BUSINESS of a FARM; AS HINTS TO THE INEXPERIENCED AGRICULTURIST; AS A CHECK to the Present FALSE SPIRIT of FARMING; AND AS AN OVERTURE TO SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE
  by: Marshall, William, 1745-1818
  Published: (1778)
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  by: Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732
  Published: (1733)
• The Rise, Progress And Present State Of The Northern Governments; Viz. The United Provinces, Denmark, Sweden, Russia And Poland : Or, Observations On The Nature, Constitution, Religion, Laws, Policy, Customs, And Commerce Of Each Government; The Manners And Dispositions Of The People; Their Military Forces By Land And Sea; The Revenues And Resources Of Each Power; And On The Circumstances And Conjunctures Which Have Contributed To Produce The Various Revolutions Which Have Happened In Them. The Whole Digested From The Most Authentic Records And Histories, And From The Reflections And Remarks Made During A Tour Of Five Years Through These Nations. Vol. I.
  by: Williams, John
  Published: (1777)