The complete grazier; : or, farmer and cattle-dealer's assistant. Comprising instruction for the buying, breeding, rearing, and fattening of cattle. Directions for the choice of the best breeds of live stock. The treatment of their diseases, and the management of cows and ewes, during the critical times of calving and yeaning. The general economy of a grass-farm, especially ; irrigation, or watering of meadows; culture of the best natural and artificla grasses and plants for fodder; various methods of cutting, mixing, and preparing food in severe winters, and seasons of scarcity; the economy and general management of the dairy, including the making, curing, and preservation of butter and cheese, &c. &c. Together with a synoptical table of different breeds of neat cattle, sheep, and swine. Illustrated by engravings /
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| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | Half title page. Includes index. Publisher's advertisements last two pages. Signatures: A⁴ B-2K⁸ "A table of the breeds of neat cattle, sheep, and swine" - folded 40 x 52 cm plate laid in following page 510. |
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| Physical Description: | 510 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : frontispiece, illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |