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 ne 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

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Young, Arthur
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall 1770, M.DCC.LXX. [1770]
Subjects:	Agriculture Agriculture / Early Works To 1800
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/0759300101?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa