The new complete English farmer or, The whole body of husbandry made perfectly easy : containing what every farmer ought to know and practise, in all the various useful branches of husbandry : comprehending, among all the several articles treated of in this work, full directions and instructions, under the following heads, viz. The cultivation and proper management of wheat and barley. The culture of oats and rye. The whole art and management of all the different kinds of grass, and of making hay. Full description of the different soils, and of manuring and ploughing land. Instructions respecting the farmer's stock, &c. The best methods of breeding and rearing colts, managing horses and mares, and of curing their numerous diseases. The art of rearing calves and lambs, together with the best methods of managing bulls, oxen, cows, and sheep, to make them turn out to the greatest advantage. Likewise several excellent receipts to cure the different disorders they are subject to. The best and most approved method of rearing pigs, fattening swine, and chusing the best sort for breeding, and for curing all their disorders. Directions for breeding rabbits to the best advantage. The whole art of rearing and managing fowls, ducks, geese, turkies, and pigeons, to make them turn out profitable to the farmer, with the choicest receipts to cure their several diseases. The whole management of bees, both for profit and pleasure. The cultivation of turnips, beans, pease, tares, hemp, and flax, &c. &c. &c. Together with other useful articles, too numerous to mention in this title page. The whole carefully revised, corrected, and improved /

Niall Kenny description: Rare, not in Dingley, Perkins, Rothamsted or BL, but Comben's 1999 catalogue has another different (and anonymous) edition dated 1798 (a copy in Cambridge), and another copy dated c.1775; although gathering A has only 2 leaves the catch-word is correct for B1 (p13), oth...

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