The English improver, or, A new survey of husbandry discovering to the kingdome that some land, both arrable and pasture, may be advanced double or treble, other land to a five or tenfold and some to a twentyfold improvement, yea some not now worth above one or two shillings per acree be made worth thirty or forty, if not more

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Main Author: Blith, Walter
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Language:English
Published: London Printed for J. Wright 1649, 1649
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Collection: Making of the Modern World - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Item Description:"Held forth under six peeces of improvement: 1. by floating or watering such lands as are capable thereof; 2. by reducing boggy or drowned land to sound pasture; 3. by such a way of ploughing and corneing old courser pasture, as not to impoverish it, and by such a method of enclosure, as shall provide for poore and all interests without depopulation; 4. by discovering divers materials for soyle and compost, with the nature and use of them, as both tillage and pasture be advanced as high as promised; 5. by such a new plantation of divers sorts of woods, as in twenty yeares, they shall rise more than in forty yeares naturally; 6. by a more moderate improvement of other sorts of lands, according to their capacities they lye under by more common experiences.". - Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 01005. - OCLC, 20883616. - Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London. - Wing, B3193
Physical Description:[27], 168, [8] p 4to
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