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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
27 unnumbered pages, 168 pages, 8 unnumbered pages ; quarto.
clearly demonstrated from principles of sound reason, ingenuity, and late but most certaine reall experiences by Walter Blith ...
"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."
Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London.
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. (The making of the modern world). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements. s2005 miunns
Making of the modern world (Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature)