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Useful and practical observations on agriculture. With some essays annexed, on inclosures, the improvement of the country, and the poor. By a clergyman.
Subjects: “…Inclosures Early works to 1800.…”
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Suggestions for rendering the inclosure of common fields and waste lands a source of population and riches. By Thomas Stone, Land and tythe surveyor, Bedford.
Subjects: “…Inclosures Great Britain.…”
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An essay on agriculture, with a view to inform gentlemen of landed property, whether their estates are managed to the greatest advantage. By Thomas Stone.
Published: printed by W. Whittingham, and sold by J. Robson, New-Bond-Street, and R. Baldwin, Pater-Noster-Row, London, 1785Subjects: Get full text
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A review of the corrected agricultural survey of Lincolnshire, by Arthur Young, Esq. Published, in 1799, by authority of the Board of Agriculture; together with an address to the board, a letter to its secretary, and remarks on the recent publication of John Lord Somerville, and on the subject of inclosures. By Thomas Stone.
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A review of the corrected agricultural survey of Lincolnshire, by Arthur Young, Esq. Published, in 1799, by authority of the Board of Agriculture Together with an address to the board, a letter to its secretary, and remarks on the recent publication of John Lord Somerville, and on the subject of inclosures. By Thomas Stone.
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Reflections upon the evil effects of an increasing population, upon the present high price of provisions, particularly corn: Upon the Bounty Act, & Upon the Propriety of General Inclosures; In which a Mode is suggested Of relieving the present Necessities of the Poor, Upon the Principles of Equity....
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The modern husbandman: or, The practice of farming As it is now carried on by the most accurate farmers in several counties of England. For the month of September. Containing, I. The different ways of plowing, and other managements preparatory to the sowing of wheat in Vale and children lands; also, the method of sowing several sorts of wheat seeds in their proper soils, in drills, in bout, in ridge, and in broad lands. II. Eighteen several cases, proving, how wheat becomes smutty, and how to prevent a farmer's having smutty or proper wheat. III. Several curious observations relating to the sowing clover, and other grass lays, and stubbles, with wheat. IV. To sow rye for a standing crop, or for feeding cattle on its green food in the field. V. The pulling and inning of flax and hemp, with many reasons, to shew how they may be improved at home in the highest perfection; also, the nature and value of Italian and Russia hemps. VI. The picking of hops, and curing them on the cockle-oast, and other kilns, with an account of their good and bad qualities. VII. The English and Irish ways of digging and preserving potatoes in the hardest frosts, and of the great service that the Castronian or Muster potatoe did to the poor Irish, in the famine of 1740. VIII. How a crop of St. Foyns may be enjoyed a year sooner than in the common way of sowing it. IX. How the Gypsy and another sort of vagrants prejudice the farmer, with a history of their lives and actions. X. The profit of sowing the winter thetch in this month, and of gathering and drying saffron. XI. The great advantage of inclosure, shewn by the example of inclosing a common by act of Parliament, to the mutual satisfaction and profit both of the rich lord of the manor and the poor commoner....
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