A course of experimental agriculture - containing an exact register of all the business transacted during five years on near three hundred acres of various soils : including a variety of experiments on the cultivation of all sorts of grain and pulse, both in the old and new methods : the raising large crops of turneps, cabbages, carrots, potatoes, &c. and several plants not usually cultivated, as food for cattle, and the application of them to feeding or fattening of oxen, cows, horses, hogs, sheep, &c. : also the management of the artificial grasses, particularly clover, lucerne, sainsoine, burnet, &c. in the broad-cast, drilling, an transplanting methods, and their uses in feeding several sorts of cattle : the culture of madder : a particular comparison between the old and new husbandry : the management of pasture lands : on ploughing, harrowing, and other operations of tillage, relative to the season, number, depth, &c. : on the general feeding and fattening of cattle on various articles of food, the expences, profit, quantity eat, &c : the implements of husbandry, their defects, improvements, &c. : with other subjects of importance to the country gentleman and farmer : the whole stated in near two thousand original experiments

Författare
Arthur Young
Språk
Engelska
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Dodsley 1770 Storbritannien, London 2 vol.