A Compleat Body Of Husbandry: Containing Rules for Performing in the Most Profitable Manner, the Whole Business of the Farmer and Country Gentleman In Cultivating, Planting and Stocking of Land ...

Thomas Hale

Osborne, 1759 - 400 pages

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CHAP Page I I 2 Of the proper ground for a vineyard	3

Of the bottom for a vineyard foil	5

Of the fituation and expofure	6

Of the condition of the adjacent country	7

The preparation of the ground	9

Of planting the ground ΤΟ	10

Of pruning the vines the firft feafon	13

Of the care and management in fucceeding years	196

Of the burreed	197

Defcription of the plant	199

Of the manner of planting it	201

Of planting bur reed on boggy ground	203

Of buck bean	205

Defcription of the plant	206

Of curing the leaves	207

The management of the vines the fecond year	14

The management of the vineyard the third year	15

The management of a vineyard for the fourth year	18

Of gathering cutting and preffing the first pre duce	22

The management of the vineyard during the following years	24

Of recruiting the foil in a vineyard	27

Of making of wine	29

The care of wines in the cellar	33

Additional	34

as Of the best time of cutting wheat for fale	36

Of the proper time for cutting barley	39

Of the best time of cutting field peafe	41

Of the effect of water upon various foils 143	43

Of the nature of black mould	45

Of the nature of clay	47

Of new manures for a fandy foil	48

Of the management of a heathy foil	49

Of the effects of laying up a foil in ridges	51

Of the effect of the winter feafon upon vegetable I mould	56

Of the overflowings of lands	58

Of waters hurtful to vegetation ibid 15 Of earths hurtful to vegetation	60

Of the conftruction of dunghills	63

Of affifting the fermentation of dunghills	66

Of the manner of laying dung upon the ground	67

Of more fingular manures	68

Of the uncertainty of philofophical reasoning in agricul ture i	71

Of the effects of manures on different foils	72

Of manuring clay grounds with marle	73

Of the manner wherein plants are nouriſhed	75

Of the management of moly ground 26 Other crops proper for a recovered moſſy ground	83

Of preparing moffy grounds for natural grafs	88

Of the management of the worst kind of mofs land after draining	92

Of the use of moffy foil as a manure ibid 31 Of the management of exhausted ground	93

Of the management of this land after plowing	96

The Irish method of raising hops on bog ground	99

A provifion for poles	101

Of making up a hop ground A	102

Of the particular advantages of this method of plant ing	104

Of the ufe of fea wrack in Scotland 1107	107

Of the advantage of fea wrack over dung	110

Of the ufe of ROCK WARE	112

Of bringing waste land into tillage by potatoes	115

Of burning the turffs on wet and waste land	116

Of flax	119

The method of ufing human excrement as a manure for flax	121

Of other manures for flax	122

Of the Flemish management of their wet clay K	125

Of the time of pulling flax	129

Of the preparation of the land for flax feed	132

Of the draining of marsh land	137

Of the fecuring of land liable to be overflowed by rivers F	141

Of preventing the water on high grounds from overs flowing those below	145

Of roads	147

Of the mud of the mouths of great rivers confidered as a manure	156

Of the use of lime water as a manure	159

Of brewing malt liquors in the most advantageous me thod	161

A cheap and eafy way of calcining clay to ferve as a manure 1166	166

The best way of using burnt clay 1	169

Of the caution to be used in the management of land	171

Of the application of dung	174

Of the management of wheat straw	177

Of foddering of cattle	178

Of the use of oat ftraw as fodder	181

Of the ufes of plants hitherto unregarded	184

Of the herb LADIES MANTLE to be used for food of cattle	188

Defcription of the plant	189

CHAP Page 66 Of faving the feed	190

Of Jowing the feed	191

Of the management of the paſture of this plant	194

Of the management of the ground	210

Of the buckthorn fhrub	211

A colour prepared from this bark	213

Of the black alder	215

Of water hoarbound	216

Of devils bit	217

Of fquinancywort	218

Defcription of the plant	219

Of baftard alkanet	220

Of root cochineal	221

Of wild marjoram	223

Of the crustaceous liverworts	224

Of fome peculiar kinds of grafs	226

Of millet cyprus grafs	228

Of club headed rush	229

Of Spiked reed grass	230

Of moufetail grass	231

Great water grafs	232

Of tail meadow grafs	233

Of narrowleaved mountain grafs	234

Of knottyrooted oat grafs	235

Of fea dogs grafs	236

Of vipers buglofs	237

Of the black Currant	238

Of kidney vetch	239

Tare everlasting	241

Of many flowered wetchling	242

Of the fea pea	244

CHAP Page 107 Of birds foot trefoil	245

Of melilot	246

Of yellow medick	247

Of melilot hop trefoil	248

Of water horſetail	250

Of plants the farmer ſhould deftroy	251

Of motherwort	257

Of the French management of lucern	258

Of bees	261

Of the uſe of the faffrons plant for bees	264

Of other herbs which give a flavour to honey	266

Of plants hurtful to bees 269	269

Of a new uſe of human excrement	272

Of blood	275

Of the damage of liming feeding grounds improperly	276

Of harrowing	277

Of clearing the ground for plowing	280

Of rolling	282

Of feeding of cattle	283

Of driving cattle	287

Of lime	288

On recovering a crop of decaying peafe	290

Of the figns of a healthful pea crop	294

Of the benefit of tares upon a ſtiff land	297

Obfervations upon grafs ground	300

Of making malt	303

Of the oak bud	307

Of Spring lambs	309

The Hufbandmans Kalendar or Directions for the care of his land and his flock according to the twelve months of the year MONTHS Page JANUARY	310

FEBRUARY	318

MARCH	327

APRIL	331

MAY	336

JUNE	340

JULY	344

AUGUST	357

SEPTEMBER	370

OCTOBER	377

NOVEMBER	383

DECEMBER	394

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Titre	A Compleat Body Of Husbandry: Containing Rules for Performing in the Most Profitable Manner, the Whole Business of the Farmer and Country Gentleman In Cultivating, Planting and Stocking of Land ... Volume 4 de A Compleat Body Of Husbandry: Containing Rules for Performing in the Most Profitable Manner, the Whole Business of the Farmer and Country Gentleman In Cultivating, Planting and Stocking of Land, Thomas Hale
Auteur	Thomas Hale
Éditeur	Osborne, 1759
Original provenant de	la bibliothèque de l'État de Bavière
Numérisé	25 mars 2009
Longueur	400 pages

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