The farmer's instructor; or, the husbandman and gardener's useful and necessary companion. Being a new treatise of husbandry, gardening, and other curious matters relating to country affairs. Containing A Plain and Practical Method of improving all Sorts of Meadow, Pasture, and Arable Land, &c. and making them produce greater Crops of all Kinds, and at much less than the present Expence. Giving an Account how poor Land, not worth above 5 s. an Acre, may be made to bear as good Crops of Grain, Grass, &c. as the richest, at the most reasonable Expence, by a new Manure, and the Use of a New Invented Excellent Four-Wheel-Drill-Plough, and Horse-Break, both so light, that a Man may easily draw either of them, which are here exhibited, and the Uses and Manner of working them fully explained. Also, The Seedsman's Monthly Kalendar, shewing the best and most easy Method for raising and cultivating every Sort of Seed belonging to a Kitchen and Flower-Garden, with necessary Instructions for sowing o

People / Organizations

• Samuel Trowell (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for J. Hodges, at the Looking-Glass, over-against St. Magnus Church, London-Bridge, 1750. The second edition, with large and useful additions.; ..

Added name

Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758

Publication year

1750

ESTC No.

N31358

Grub Street ID

20249

Description

xiii,[3],254,[2]p.,plate ; 8°.

Note

With a half-title and a final advertisement leaf.