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 ...

Osborne, 1758 - 402 pages

Of the	10

The INTRODUCTION	55

Of the nature of marle	84

Of the feveral kinds of pure and unmixed marles	86

Of the feveral kinds of impure or mixed marles	88

Of certain marles found in particular counties	90

Of feeking marle	92

Of fuiting marle to the land	95

CHAP	201

jections against it	204

Of the feveral kinds of fences	209

Of ditches and their use in fencing	211

Of draining in general	214

Of draining boggy lands	215

fenny lands	218

flat lands near great rivers	222

Of the manner of using of marle	99

Of the vaft fertility of marled lands	102

Of the ufe of mud as a manure	105

clay as a manure	107

loam as a manure	110

fand as a manure	112

gravel as a manure	118

ftone as a manure	119

chalk as a manure	121

falt as a manure	125

fea weeds as a manure	127

fea fhells and their ſpawn as manure	129

Of parts of trees and plants usd as manure	131

Of parts of animals uſed as manure	133

Of dung in general as manure	135

uſed fingly or alone	141

made into compoft	142

Of laying on of dung	144

Of the virtue and quantity of horſedung	145

Of cow dung	146

Of fheeps dung	147

THE Soil is the ground or earth in which the far mers crop is to grow	148

Of hogs dung	150

Of pigeons dung	152

Of the dung of poultry	153

Of urine	157

of rags	161

Of lime its materials and manner of burning it	163

Of the manner of uſing lime as a manure	166

Of foot	179

Of alhes	182

Of burnbaiting	185

Of baftard burnbaitings	193

BOOK III	199

The INTRODUCTION Of incloſure in general	200

Of the ordering of falt marfbes	224

Of hedges	230

Of raifing the quickfet for a white thorn hedge	231

Of making the hedge	232

Of keeping the hedge in order	237

Of the profit that may arise from hedges	243

Of the floe or black thorn hedge	244

Of the furze hedge	246

Of the holly hedge	248

Of the elder hedge	252

Of the ufe of the crab fallow alder and bramble in fencing	254

Of the bank fence with its plantation	256

Of the wall fence with its plantation	260

BOOK IV	264

The INTRODUCTION Of the improvements made by planting	266

Of raising a coppice from feed	270

Of raifing a coppice by planting of fets	274

Of the managing and ordering a coppice in its growth	277

Of felling of coppices	281

Of pollards or trees for fbrowding	284

Of timber trees in general	287

Of raising timber trees from feed	291

Of propagating timber trees by transplantation	293

Of transplanting trees of a large growth and at impro per feafons	295

III	297

Of the propagation of the elm as timber	310

Of the value of elm in timber	318

Of raifing afh in a nurſery	325

Of the ufes and value of the beech	339

Of the afpen tree	347

Of the horfe chefnut trees	354

Of the chefnut tree	361

Of the horn beam	368

Of the pear tree	374

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 1 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
Édition	2
Éditeur	Osborne, 1758
Original provenant de	la bibliothèque de l'État de Bavière
Numérisé	27 mars 2009
Longueur	402 pages

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