The husbandman's jewel : directing how to improve land from 10 l. per annum, to 50 l. with small charge by planting : making cyder as good as canary, for 5d a quart or less : to improve land by draining, and by hemp, saffron, liquorice : to brew ale and beer, make cyder, meed, mum, metheglin, and other liquors, to order bees and silkworms : destroy vermin &c. : to which are added, the arts of angling, hawking, fowling, ringing, & c, directions to cure all diseases, of horses, oxon, cows, bulls, calves, sheep, lambs, goats, swine, dogs, conies, hares, poultry and singing birds at 12d. charge : to improve clover and St. Foin : to make table drink for families, both sick and well, at a farthing a gallon worth gold, good against all distempers : and to cure all outward sores or pains, aches, & c, at a penny charge, with divers other matters.

Niall Kenny description: Often found bound together with the "The compleat husbandman and gentleman's recreation: or, the whole art of husbandry...". This is the case with my copy, and the Folger, BL and Dingley copies. It is a compilation of parts of "The Young Sportsman's...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Printed for G. Conyers, at the Ring in Little Brittain. Price 1s, [1695]
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Call Number: SF 69 M341h 1695
Notes: Non-circulating; in-library use only.
 
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