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    The modern husbandman : Or, The practice of farming: as it is now carried on by the most accurate farmers in several counties of England. For the month of March. Containing, I. An account of sowing wheat seed in March. II. How to improve late-sown crops of wheat. III. Several necessary ways to prepare, sow, and improve, different sorts of barley. IV. Of sowing oats, pease, thetches, and tills, different ways in March. V. Of sowing artificial grass seeds in different manners. VI. A description of an excellent new-invented swing plough, now in use for plowing dry soils. VII. The benefit of r...ing corn and grass grounds in this month. VIII. The copy of a letter for sending Aylesbury pirky wheat seed to a gentleman; with the author's answer to the same. IX. The late Sir John Dalrymple's character; and the copy of his first letter to the author. X. Copy of a letter from a very learned gentleman; with the author's answer. XI. An account of a new-invented, cheap, small tool, that prepares the finest and most profitable wheat seed that can be sown; which was invented by an unknown gentleman, and lately sent to this author as a present, who now furnishes the same sort to any person that will buy it; being a tool of great profit to all farmers and gentlemen who occupy arable land, and which will effectually supply the use of the great round wire worm-screen, that costs thirty pounds. To which are added; many other curious and serviceable matters never before published. By William Ellis; of Little Gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire.
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    The modern husbandman: or, The practice of farming : As it is now carried on by the most accurate farmers in several counties of England. For the month of September. Containing, I. The different ways of plowing, and other managements preparatory to the sowing of wheat in Vale and children lands; also, the method of sowing several sorts of wheat seeds in their proper soils, in drills, in bout, in ridge, and in broad lands. II. Eighteen several cases, proving, how wheat becomes smutty, and how to prevent a farmer's having smutty or proper wheat. III. Several curious observations relating to the sowing clover, and other grass lays, and stubbles, with wheat. IV. To sow rye for a standing crop, or for feeding cattle on its green food in the field. V. The pulling and inning of flax and hemp, with many reasons, to shew how they may be improved at home in the highest perfection; also, the nature and value of Italian and Russia hemps. VI. The picking of hops, and curing them on the cockle-oast, and other kilns, with an account of their good and bad qualities. VII. The English and Irish ways of digging and preserving potatoes in the hardest frosts, and of the great service that the Castronian or Muster potatoe did to the poor Irish, in the famine of 1740. VIII. How a crop of St. Foyns may be enjoyed a year sooner than in the common way of sowing it. IX. How the Gypsy and another sort of vagrants prejudice the farmer, with a history of their lives and actions. X. The profit of sowing the winter thetch in this month, and of gathering and drying saffron. XI. The great advantage of inclosure, shewn by the example of inclosing a common by act of Parliament, to the mutual satisfaction and profit both of the rich lord of the manor and the poor commoner. And also, of the infinite damage the do the poor and the farmer, and the guilt they load themselves with, who unlawfully and unjustly inclose and detain commons from them. To which are added, many other curious and serviceable matters never before published. By Williams Ellis, of Little Gaddesden, near...
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    The modern husbandman : Or, The practice of farming: as it is now carried on by the most accurate farmers in several counties of England. For the month of July. Containing. I. The several sorts of plowings necessary to be performed in this month, in different soils and countries. II. How several farmers broke in one farm by wrong plowing their ground, and how a present tenant thrives by plowing it right; with cases relating thereto. III. A sure method to secure an acre of turneps, coleworts, weld, and many other vegetables, from the damages of flies, for three-pence charge, by only preparing the seed. IV. Several experienced ways to make rapes or coleworts answer to great profit. V. How to make a prodigious advantage by sewing turnep seed, cole seed and weld seed together, in a particular soil and situation. VI. Different manners of cutting and inning several sorts of pease. VII. Of sowing, cutting, inning, and other things relating to French wheat. VIII. How to make a calf's flesh white at home, and also while it is on sale at market; and to cure several distempers in cows, &c. IX. To prevent and cure diseases in sheep, hogs, and horses. X. Of bees. XI. How to make excellent cheese from clover-grass. XII. The best way of all others to make salt butter fresh: to pot butter; with other new secrets for improving a dairy. XIII. To keep eggs a long time sound, by four several ways. XIV. What is necessary to be done in the hop garden in this month; in which several curious and profitable matters are discovered. XV. How three several farmers pay their rents by breeding tame pheasants; wherein, by large accounts, are shewn their ingenious cheap methods of doing it. XVI. The method of breeding mottled or white-peacocks. XVII. How to discover where peat is to be found, with ample accounts of the vast improvements that have accrued by its cheap ashes, [made] at Newbury, Langley, &c. by which thousands of acres may be put ... to the great advantage of farmers, and to the immense profit of Great Britain, Ireland, and our plantations abroad. By William Ellis, of Little...
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    The modern husbandman : Or, The practice of farming: as it is now carried on by the most accurate farmers in several counties of England. For the month of June. Containing the following particulars, viz. I. A description of, and the uses of the excellent three-wheel and pulley drill ploughs, several sorts of horse-breaks, and hand instruments, as they are now employed by common farmers, for improving their crops of wheat, barley, pease, beans, rapes, weld, coriander, carraway, canary, seeds of trees, turneps, hops, and other vegetables, in the cheapest and most profitable manner. II. Of the furniture of a dairy, and the making of butter and cheese, according to the different practice of several counties: to which is added, an account, how the sweetest of butter may be had from milk taken directly from cows, though they be fed with a particular sort of artificial grass; and also how to make some of the best of cheese from the butter-milk of the same, as it was presented to the Royal Society, by a gentleman who got an estate by the constant practice of this method; and whereby the poorest ground may be advanced to the highest value. III. The true way of suckling house lambs, as it is performed by the meadow farmer and the plough farmer, so plainly wrote of, that those, who never saw this work done, may easily become masters of this curious art, by which cities and great towns may cheaply enjoy this delicate meat. IV. Of proper plowings, necessary to be done in this month, in high or low, wet or dry lands. V. A large account of making natural hay, and its preservation from firing, and other damage. VI. Of sheering sheep. The nature and value of the several sorts of wooll of Great Britain; and how it is run to France. VII. The unfortunate death of a lord of a manor, that was killed by his own bull; and how a blackmoor, in Buckingbamshire, killed a savage bull with only a bag of nails. VIII. The several benefits of keeping the pole, or hornless breed of cows and bulls, as now done by several gentlemen. IX. The management of a crop of turnep seed, and of sowing turneps in this month. X. The improvement of corn, hops, cows, calves, sheep, lambs, and bees. XI. Eighteen ways of keeping off and destroying rats and mice; and the case of an horse, who was near being killed by rats poisoned with mercury: with many other curious cases, and serviceable matters. By William Ellis, of Little Gaddesden, near...
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