A Compleat Body of Husbandry: Containing Rules for Performing, in the Most Profitable Manner, the Whole Business of the Farmer and Country Gentleman ...

Esq. Thomas Hale

T. Osborne, 1759

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The preparation of the ground	7

The management of a vineyard for the fourth year	18

The management of the vineyard during the following	24

The care of wines in the cellar	33

CHAP Page 1 Of the proper time of cutting wheat intended for feed	34

Of the best time of cutting wheat for fale	36

Of the best time of cutting field peafe	41

Of the effect of water upon various foils	43

The manner of planting it	207

Of curing the leaves	209

Of the management of the ground	210

Of the buckthorn fhrub 21 F	213

Of the black alder	215

Of water bearhound	216

Of devils bit	217

Of Squinancywort	218

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 mould	56

Of the overflowings of lands	58

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	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	78

Other crops proper for a recovered moſſy ground	83

Of moly land with a clay bottom ibid 28 Of preparing moffy grounds for natural grass	88

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

Of the use of moffy foil as a manure ibid 31 Of the management of exhaufted 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 ΙΟΙ	101

Of making up a hop ground	102

Of the particular advantages of this method of plant ing	104

Of the use of fea wrack in Scotland	107

Of the advantage of fea wrack over dung	110

Of the use 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 uſing human excrement as a manure for flax	121

Of other manures for flax	122

Of the Flemish management of their wet clay	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	141

Of preventing the water on high grounds from over flowing thofe 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 easy way of calcining clay to ferve as a manure 166	166

The best way of using burnt clay	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 uses 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 Sowing the feed	191

Of the management of the paſture of this plant 194	194

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

Defcription of the plant	219

Of bastard 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 grafs	230

Of moufetail grafs	231

Great water grafs	232

Of tall meadow grafs	233

Of narrowleaved mountain grafs	234

Of knottyrooted qat grass	235

Of fea dogs grafs	236

Of vipers buglofs	237

Of the black Currant	238

Of kidney vetch	239

Tare everlafting	241

Of many flowered vetchling	242

CHAP	244

CHAP Page 107 Of birds foot trefoil	245

Of melilot	246

Of yellow medick 1247	247

Of melilot hop trefoil	248

Of water horfetail	250

Of plants the farmer ſhould destroy	251

Of motherwort	257

Of the French management of lucern	258

Of bees	261

Of the ufe of the faffrons plant for bees	264

119 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 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

24	411

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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 ... Volume 4 de A Compleat Body of Husbandry, Thomas Hale 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 ... Compliled from the Original Papers of the Late Thomas Hale, Esq, and Enlarged by Many New and Useful Communications on Practical Subjects, from the Collections of Col. Stevenson, Mr. Randolph, Mr. Hawkins ... and Others, T. H. (Thomas Hale) 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, Thomas Hale (gardener.) 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, in Judging of the Several Kinds of Seeds, and of Manures, and in the Management of Arable and Pasture Grounds, Esq. Thomas Hale
Auteur	Esq. Thomas Hale
Éditeur	T. Osborne, 1759
Original provenant de	Bibliotheque cant. et univ. Lausanne
Numérisé	4 juin 2008

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