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, 1758

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farm	6

Of weaning foals	14

Of breaking borfes for fervice	15

Of the farmers number of horses and their working	17

Of the turning borfes to grass and taking them up to the Stable	19

Of the afs 1	24

Of the mule	26

Of the preparation of land for corn after the ar tificial graffes 1716	171

Of the preparation of land for corn after common grafs	174

Of keeping land in heart by tillage	176

Of the nature of the improvement by tillage	179

Of plowing	182

Of the form of the antient plow	183

Of the feveral kinds of plows in common ufe in England	185

Of the uses of the common plows and their proper make	188

Of the bull and his kind	28

Of the ox	32

CHAP page 34 Of the advantages of tillage by the four coultered	34

Of the cow	40

Of the calf	45

Of the choice of sheep	51

Of the nature of drill and horfebceing huſbandry	52

Of the fhearing of sheep	55

Of the breeding up of houfe lambs	58

Of bogs their advantages and evils	60

Of the feveral breeds or kinds of hogs	61

Of the feeding of bogs	63

Of goats	67

Of the rabbit in general	69

Of the wild rabbit ༡༠	70

Of the tame rabbit	71

A profitable method of keeping tame rabbits	74

Of FowL S 28 Of the cock and ben their kinds and choice	76

Of the breeding of poultry 78 08	78

CHAP page 30 Of the bringing up of chickens	81

Of capons	83

Of turkeys their kinds and choice	85

Of the breeding and raifing of turkeys	87

Of geefe their kinds and the profits of keeping them	90

Of the breeding and feeding of geefe	92

Of ducks	94

Of the keeping of wild water fowl and of decoys	95

Of the fwan	97

Of the peacock	98

Of the pheafant	100

Of FISH 42 Of the advantages of fish ponds	104

Of the making of fish ponds	106

Of the stocking of fish ponds	110

Of feeding preſerving and taking fish out of ponds	114

Of bees their nature and products	117

Of hives and the manner of placing them	119

Of the fwarming of bees	121

Of the hiving of bees	123

Of the preferving of bees	125

Of taking the honey and wax	126

of TILLAGE In SIX PARTS	129

30	130

their nourishment T	138

Of the reafons there are for fuppofing the nouriſh	146

The refult of experiments in vegetation	152

Of the diftribution of the nourishment of plants	158

dung	163

Of the joint advantages of manure and tillage	165

Of the preparation of wood lands for corn	167

Of the preparation of heathy land for corn	169

Of the improvements on the common plow	189

Of the wheel plow 4	191

Of the four coultered plow	193

Of the management of a plow in working	201

Of the advantages of plowing crosswife on hilly grounds	203

Of laying lands in ridges	205

Of wet lands on hills	207

Of wet land that lies level	209

plow	211

Of the general benefits and advantages of plow ings	215

Of the benefit of converting pafture into arable land and of continued plowing	217

Of harrowing	219

Of the various kinds of barrows	220

Of the drill harrow	224

Of rolling	227

Of the feveral kinds of rollers	228

Of the great advantages of rolling	230

Of the different manners of fowing 43 Of Sowing in general	232

Of the depth at which feeds are to be fown	234

The practical method of finding the proper depth for feeds	235

Of the quantity of feed to be fown in the common and drill bufbandry	238

The practice in respect of quantity in different places	241

Of the advantages the drill husbandry receives from the boe plow	243

Of changing the feed	245

Of the fuppofed change of fpecies and of Patney barley	248

Of the effect of foils on the growth of plants	250

in general	252

Of drilling	253

Of borfeboeing	254

Of the benefits of deep boeing	256

Of the different appearance of crops	259

Of drill boxes	261

Of the wheat drill and turnip drill	263

Of the hoe plow	268

Of raifing turnips by the drill and borfchoeing bufbandry	270

Of the difpofition of a turnip crop	272

Directions for horseboeing of turnips	274

Of the quantity of feed and advantages of the crop	277

Of raifing wheat by the drill and horfeboeing buf bandry	278

Of the number of rows for wheat	282

Of the manner of horseboeing of wheat	285

Of the immediate benefit of the broad intervals	286

Of raising faintfoin by the drill and horfeboeing bufbandry	288

Of the manner of planting ſaintfoin	290

Of the great advantages of the drill and horfe boeing husbandry	291

Of PEASE	388

Of weeding the peà field	397

Of the fowing tares	403

Of the management of chiches and their ſtanding	412

Of buck wheat	418

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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 2 de A Compleat Body of Husbandry, Thomas Hale Volume 2 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 2 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.)
Auteur	Esq. Thomas Hale
Éditeur	T. Osborne, 1758
Original provenant de	Université d'État de l'Ohio
Numérisé	6 nov. 2014

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