The modern husbandman : for the month of September. I. The different ways of plowing and other managements preparatory to the sowing of wheat in Vale and Chiltern lands; also, the method of sowing several sorts of wheat-seeds in their proper soils, in drills, in bout, in ridge, and in broadlands. II. Eighteen several cases, proving, how wheat becomes smutty, and how to prevent a farmer's having smutty or pepper wheat. III. Several curious observations relating to the sowing of clover, and other grass-lays, and stubbles with wheat. IV. To sow rye for a standing crop, or for feeding cattle on its green food in the field. V. The pulling and inning of flax and hemp, with many reasons to shew how they may be improved at home in the highest perfection; also, the nature and value of Italian and Russian hemp. VI. The picking of hops and curing them on the cockle-oast, and other kilns, with an account of their good and bad properties. VII. The English and Irish ways of digging and preserving potatoes in the hardest frosts, and of the great service that the Castonian or Munster potatoe did to the poor Irish, in the Famine of 1740. VIII. How a crop of St. Foyne may be enjoyed a year sooner than in the common way of sowing it. IX. How the gypsy and another sort of vagrants prejudice the farmer, and a history of their lives and actions. X. The profit of sowing the winter thetch in this month, and of gathering and drying saffron. XI. The great advantage of Inclosure, shewn by the expample of including a common by Act of Parliament, to the mutual satisfaction and profit both of the rich Lord of the Manor and the poor commoner. And also, of the infinite damage they do the poor and the farmer, and the guilt they load themselves with, who unlawfully and unjustly include and detain commons from them. To which are added many other curious and serviceable matters never before published. /
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| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | Head and tail pieces; initials. Signatures: A-U⁴ Title page contents divided in two columns separated by a double-rule, with first column from "I. The different ways ..." to "VI. ... good and bad qualities" and second column from "VII. The English ..." to XI. ... detain commons from them." Verso of title page is advertisement: "Now in the press, and speedily will be published, the modern husbandman, or, the practice of farming: as it is now carried on by the most accurate farmers in several counties of England. For the month of October. By the same author." Bound with: The modern husbandman for the month of August (1742) and The modern husbandman for the month of October (1743). |
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| Physical Description: | 8 unnumbered pages, 152 pages ; 20 cm. octavo. |