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The farmer's magazine, and useful family companion : ... By Agricola Sylvan, gentleman.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Farmer's magazine, and useful family companion (London, England : Monthly)
Corporate Author: Gale (Firm)
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: [London, England] : Printed for R. Snagg, numbers 129, Fleet-Street, London; and R. Cruttwell, in Bath; and sold by every bookseller, stationer, and news-carrier, in the kingdom, [1776-1779]
Subjects:
Agriculture > Periodicals > Early works to 1800.
Agricultural implements > England > Periodicals.
Agricultural prices > England > Periodicals > Early works to 1800.
Farm income > Periodicals > Early works to 1800.
Farm management > England > Periodicals.
Animal culture > England > Periodicals.
Electronic books.
Periodicals > England > 18th century.
Domestic animals > England > Periodicals.
Livestock > England > Periodicals.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Published:[Number I. (April 1776)]-December, 1780.
Item Description:'Agricola Sylvan' is a pseudonym.
With title pages and caption titles.
Title and imprint from Number II. (May 1776.); first issue lacks title page.
Imprint lacks date; years of publication from dates of issues.
Imprints vary; from numbers 3 (June 1776) R. Snagg is replaced by: W. Goldsmith, numbers 24, in Pater-noster-Row.
"Price 6 d." follows designation.
Title pages include table of contents.
Frontis. = plate, with additional plates and drawings showing new farm machinery and grain crops.
Tables show weather, crop yields, prices, farm expenses.
Articles on farming and rural life, including information on world wide agricultural practices, country by country, with specific advice on crops, new machinery, and costs and profits. Includes poetry selections, reivews of new books, occasional correspondence.
Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (volume, plates (some folded)) : illustrations, tables ;
Publication Frequency:Monthly
Related Items:Collected annually, with added prefatory material, as: The farmer's magazine, and useful family companion.
Finding Aid:No. X. (Jan. 1777), includes subject index for volume I, as does last issue of each subsequent volume.
Place of Publication:Great Britain -- England -- London.
Great Britain -- England -- Bath.