Intending to retire from the bustle of a town life, to a small seat a few miles in the country, consisting of a comfortable house, offices, garden, and 56 acres of arable land with a clay loam rather impoverished, but knowing nothing of husbandry from experience ... I consult practical farmers ...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ;
no. 48064. |
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| Online Access: | Evans Digital Edition |
| Item Description: | A proposed design for land use; signed on page 8: B. July, 1797. Attributed to John Beale Bordley by Bristol. Title taken from opening lines of text; preceded by two lines of quotation: Commerce feeds the passions, agriculture calms them. Ascribed to the press of Charles Cist by Bristol. Table of "the order of cultivation, and of crops" printed on folded leaf and numbered 9 and 10. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 8 pages, 1 folded leaf Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |