The mystery of husbandry: or, arable, pasture and wood-land improved.

Folger bibliographic ID: 151774
ESTC number: R32066
Wing number: M1573A
Folger call number: Film Acc. 627
Folger holdings ID: 196032

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twelvemo

General notes

Frontis. = plate Running title reads: Arable, pasture, and wood-land improved Signatures: A⁶ B-H¹²

Extended title: The mystery of husbandry: or, arable, pasture and wood-land improved. : Containing the whole art and mystery of agriculture or husbandry, in bettering and improving all degrees of land, fertilizing the barrenest soil, recovering it from weeds, ... to bear good corn, or become meadow or pasture. Directions for marling, dunging, mudding, sanding, flowing, trenching, and other methods of improving land to the best advantage. Proper times for sowing, chusing good seed, and ploughing; with the description of useful ploughs suitable to the different forts of ground, &c. How to keep corn, and other pulse, from being destroyed by birds, vermin, lightning, mildew, blasts, smuttiness, cold winds, &c. Harvestwork, inning or stacking, &c. The best granaries for preserving corn and pulse, &c. How to know smutty or washed corn from others. Proper tools for husbandry and day-labour computed. ... To which is added, The countryman's almanack. By Lenard Meager
Alternate titles: Countryman's almanack, Arable, pasture, and wood-land improved

Agriculture

author: Meager, Leonard, 1624?-1704?