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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CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME CHAP I 2 O F English vineyards	1

Of the proper ground for a vineyard	3

Of the bottom for a vineyard foil	5

Of the fituation and expofure 5 Of the condition of the adjacent country 6 The preparation of the ground	6

Of planting the ground	7

Of pruning the vines the first feafon	8

The management of the vines the fecond year	9

The management of the vineyard the third year Page 135679	10

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

10	13

Of gathering cutting and preſſing the first pro 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 24 27 29	33

A 2	35

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 4I 5 Of the various mixtures of natural earth ibid	41

Of the effect of water upon various foils	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

Additional	51

Of the effect of the winter feafon upon vegetable mould	56

Of the overflowings of lands	58

Of earths burtful 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 reafoning in agricul ture	71

Of the effects of manures on different foils	72

Of manaring clay grounds with marle	73

Of the manner wherein plants are nourished	75

Of the management of moſſy ground	78

Other crops proper for a recovered moffy ground	83

27 Of moffy land with a clay bottom ibid 28 Of preparing moffy grounds for natural grafs	88

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

Of the management of exhaufied 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 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 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

The best way of using burnt clay	169

Of the caution to be used in the management of land 171 59 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	197

Of planting bur reed on boggy ground	203

Of curing the leaves	209

Of the black alder	215

Of root cochineal	221

Of millet cyprus grafs	228

Of narrowleaved mountain grass	234

Tare everlasting	241

СНАР Page	245

Of plants the farmer ſhould deſtroy	251

Of the French management of lucern	257

Of the use of the faffrons plant for bees	264

Of a new uſe of human excrement	272

Of clearing the ground for plowing	280

Of driving cattle	287

Of the figns of a healthful pea crop	294

Obfervations upon grafs ground	300

C	302

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 ... 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	Université d'État de l'Ohio
Numérisé	6 nov. 2014

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