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The complete English farmer: or, husbandry made perfectly easy, in all its useful branches. Containing what every farmer ought to know and practice. ... By George Cooke, farmer, at West-End, in Hertfordshire.
Cooke, George.Date: [between 1771 and 1775]- Books
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Hints to gentlemen of landed property. To which are now first added, supplementary hints. By Nathaniel Kent, Of Fulham.
Kent, Nathaniel, 1737-1810.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- Books
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Cottage economy : containing information relative to the brewing of beer, making of bread, keeping of cows, pigs, bees, ewes, goats, poultry and rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the affairs of a labourer's family / by William Cobbett.
Cobbett, William, 1763-1835.Date: 1822- Books
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Rural oeconomy: or Essays on the practical parts of husbandry. Designed to explain several of the most important methods of conducting farms of various kinds; including many useful hints to gentlemen farmers, relative to the oeconomical management of their business. Containing, among other enquiries, of that proportioned farm, which is of all others the most profitable. The best method of conducting farms that consist all of grass, or all of arable land. The means of keeping the most cattle the year round on a given quantity of land. The cheapest way of manuring land. Considerations on the oeconomical conduct of gentlemen farmers. The comparative profit of farming different soils. Of experimental agriculture. Of the new husbandry. Of the management of borders of arable fields. Of periodical publications concerning rural oeconomics. To which is added, The rural Socrates, being memoirs of a country philosopher, by the author of The farmer's letters; [Two lines of quotation in Latin]
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: M,DCC,LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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Winter riches, or a miscellany of rudiments, directions and observations, necessary for the laborious farmer, on a new vegetable system of agriculture, On Principles of Fact and Demonstration: Whereby Ease and Profit may be obtained, and the willing Farmer become a Husbandman. By Matthew Peters, Member of the Dublin Society for the Encouragement of Husbandry, and other useful Arts, And Author of the Rational Farmer.
Peters, Matthew.Date: M,DCC,LXXI. [1771]