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• THE COMPLETE FARMER: OR, A GENERAL DICTIONARY OF HUSBANDRY IN ALL ITS BRANCHES; CONTAINING THE VARIOUS Methods of Cultivating and Improving every Species of Land, ACCORDING TO THE PRECEPTS OF BOTH THE OLD AND NEW HUSBANDRY : Comprising every Thing valuable in the best Writers on this Subject, viz. LINNAEUS, CHATEAUVIEUX, the Marquis of TURBILLY, PLATT, EVELYN, WORLIDGE, MORTIMER, TULL, ELLIS, MILLER, HALE, LISLE, ROQUE, MILLS, YOUNG, MARSHALL, &C. &C. TOGETHER WITH A great VARIETY of NEW DISCOVERIES and IMPROVEMENTS. ALSO The whole Business of Breeding, Managing, and Fattening CATTLE and POULTRY of all Kids; and the most approved Manner of curing the various Diseases to which they are subject. Together with the Manner of raising BEES, and of acquiring large Quantities of WAX and HONEY, without destroying those laborious INSECTS. Also, the Management of VINES, and the best Method of making all sorts of WINES. Illustrated with a great Variety of COPPER-PLATES, accurately engraved; exhibiting all the Instruments used in HUSBANDRY; particulary those lately invented, as well as those presented to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. in London; many of which have never yet appeared in a Work of this Nature
  Published: (1793)
• Complete Farmer: or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry in All Its Branches
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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)
• 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. II
  Published: (1770)
• The gardener's and botanist's dictionary; containing the best and newest methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit, and flower garden, and nursery; of performing the practical parts of agriculture; of managing vineyards, and of propagating all sorts of timber trees. Volume I.
  by: Miller, Philip, 1691-1771
  Published: (1797)