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The mystery of husbandry: or, arable, pasture, and wood-land improved [electronic resource] : Contai...

The mystery of husbandry: or, arable, pasture, and wood-land improved [electronic resource] : Contai...

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The mystery of husbandry: or, arable, pasture, and wood-land improved [electronic resource] : Containing the whole art and mystery of agriculture or husbandry, in bettering and improving all degrees of land, fertilizing the barrenest soil, recovering it from weeds, bushes, briars, rushes, flags, overflowings of salt or unwholsom waters, to bear good corn, or become meadow or pasture. Directions for marling, dunging, mudding, sanding, flowing, trenching, and other methods of improving land to the best advantage. Proper times for sowing, chusing good seed, and ploughing; with the description of useful ploughs suitable to the different forts of ground, &c. How to keep corn, and other pulse, from being destroyed by birds, vermin, lightning, mildew, blasts, smuttiness, cold winds, &c. Harvestwork, inning or stacking, &c. The best graineries for preserving corn and pulse, &c. How to know smutty or washed corn from others. Proper tools for husbandry and day-labour computed. ... To which is added, The countryman's almanack. By Leonard Meager.

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Full title

The mystery of husbandry: or, arable, pasture, and wood-land improved [electronic resource] : Containing the whole art and mystery of agriculture or husbandry, in bettering and improving all degrees of land, fertilizing the barrenest soil, recovering it from weeds, bushes, briars, rushes, flags, overflowings of salt or unwholsom waters, to bear good corn, or become meadow or pasture. Directions for marling, dunging, mudding, sanding, flowing, trenching, and other methods of improving land to the best advantage. Proper times for sowing, chusing good seed, and ploughing; with the description of useful ploughs suitable to the different forts of ground, &c. How to keep corn, and other pulse, from being destroyed by birds, vermin, lightning, mildew, blasts, smuttiness, cold winds, &c. Harvestwork, inning or stacking, &c. The best graineries for preserving corn and pulse, &c. How to know smutty or washed corn from others. Proper tools for husbandry and day-labour computed. ... To which is added, The countryman's almanack. By Leonard Meager.

Publisher

London : printed by W. Onley, and are to be sold by Will. Majore, bookseller, in Newport, Cornwall, 1697.

Alternative title

Mistery of husbandry or arable pasture and wood land improu'd.
Mystery of husbandry or arable pasture and wood land improv'd.

Date

1697.

Record Identifier

74VvqQW3kGWy

MMS ID

991006317789702626

Language

English

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Physical Description

Physical content

[12], 161, [7] p., [1] leaf of plates (fold)

Publication information

Publisher

London : printed by W. Onley, and are to be sold by Will. Majore, bookseller, in Newport, Cornwall, 1697.

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

1697.

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Access Conditions

Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.

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Full title

The mystery of husbandry: or, arable, pasture, and wood-land improved [electronic resource] : Containing the whole art and mystery of agriculture or husbandry, in bettering and improving all degrees of land, fertilizing the barrenest soil, recovering it from weeds, bushes, briars, rushes, flags, overflowings of salt or unwholsom waters, to bear goo...

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Notes

General note

At foot of title page: Price Bound 1s.

Plate has title: The mistery of husbandry or arable pasture and wood land improu'd.; and imprint: London Printed for Henry Nelme at the Leg and Star in Cornhill.

With initial table of contents.

The final 7 pages contain advertisments for Henry Nelme.

A reissue of an earlier edition printed for Henry Nelme.

Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library....

Citation / References Note

Wing (2nd ed.) M1573.

Additional physical form availability note

Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/57.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2191:06)

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Record Identifier

74VvqQW3kGWy

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvqQW3kGWy

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MMS ID

991006317789702626