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Agriculture improv'd : or, the practice of husbandry display'd. Chiefly shewn by facts perform'd in all Sorts of Land In the Month of July, According to the Old Plain, and the New Drill, Way of Farming. To be Continued Monthly, till Twelve Books are completed. Containing, 1. Several new Ways, never before published, how to discover whether Wheat is truly dry, and fit to be laid up for Store. 2. The Use of a new-invented Engine, propos'd to the Author for saving the Labour of Two Horses in Four in Plowing of Lands. 3. How one of the most diligent and skilfulest Farmers had one of the worst Crops of Grain in 1744. 4. The State of Crops of Grain for July 1744. 5. How a Crop of Coleworts may be preserved sound in extreme cold Countries. 6. The great Use and Value of a Chaff-Engine. 7. The great Use and Value of two new-invented Hand-Sieves. 8. Copies of Letters from two several ingenious Gentlemen, shewing their Practice in the Improvement of their various Soils; sent to the Author for engaging his particular Answers to the same. 9. How a Gentleman sowed his Orchard with Wheat. 10 How a Gentleman improved his Sandy and Gravelly Soils with Marl. 11. Rathripe Barley, the great Service it did those that sowed it in 1744. 12. Cole-Seed, to sow it to the best Advantage at several Seasons of the Year: With many other serviceable and curious Matters, not before publish'd. By William Ellis, a Farmer, of Little Gaddesden, near Hunsted, in Hertfordshire, Author of the Modern Husbandman [Elektronische Ressource]
1745



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 March. Containing, I. An account of sowing wheat seed in March. II. How to improve late-sown crops of wheat. III. Several necessary ways to prepare, sow, and improve, different sorts of barley. IV. Of sowing oats, pease, thetches, and tills, different ways in March. V. Of sowing artificial grass seeds in different manners. VI. A description of an excellent new-invented swing plough, now in use for plowing dry soils. VII. The benefit of r...ing corn and grass grounds in this month. VIII. The copy of a letter for sending Aylesbury pirky wheat seed to a gentleman; with the author's answer to the same. IX. The late Sir John Dalrymple's character; and the copy of his first letter to the author. X. Copy of a letter from a very learned gentleman; with the author's answer. XI. An account of a new-invented, cheap, small tool, that prepares the finest and most profitable wheat seed that can be sown; which was invented by an unknown gentleman, and lately sent to this author as a present, who now furnishes the same sort to any person that will buy it; being a tool of great profit to all farmers and gentlemen who occupy arable land, and which will effectually supply the use of the great round wire worm-screen, that costs thirty pounds. To which are added; many other curious and serviceable matters never before published. By William Ellis; of Little Gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire [Elektronische Ressource]
1744

The second part of the timber-tree improved : Containing, I. The nature and uses of foreign and British timber-trees. II. Of oak; a profitable account of it from tradesmen, with several cases relating to this timber. To know if trees are found or unfound, as they stand, or after felling. Why posts, that are burnt at one end to last long, last the less time for it. How to make timber more durable, than in the common way with twenty other improvements relating on the oak. III. Of ash: how to make an impregnable live-fence with this sort of tree, for parks and fields, to immense profit. IV. Of beech; how to make it last near as long as heart of oak. How beech was so managed, as to be sold to a London chair-maker for walnut tree. A remarkable example of many great beeches being rotted as they stood, by the ignorance of their owner; with fifteen other particulars relating to this tree. V. Ten sorts of improvements of the elm. VI. Eight improvements of the walnut-tree. VIII. Of the maple, bay-tree, sycamore, birch, laurel, lignum-vitae tree, whip-beam, holly, witch-elm, horn-beech, yew, and box-tree, pine of fir, cypress-tree, black cherry, cedar, sweet and horse chesnut, juniper, hasel and fill-beard, pear-tree, apple and crab, barberry-tree. almond-tree, plum-tree, quince, mulberry, white and red elder-tree, black and white-thorn, asp, poplar, alder, willow, white-wood, sallow, withy and osier, medalar and service-tree, ivy, furz and whins, &c. By William Ellis, of Little Gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire [Elektronische Ressource]
1742



The london and country brewer : Containing an Account, I. Of the Nature of Barley-Corn, and of the proper Soils and Manures for the Improvement thereof. II. Of making Malts. III. To know good from bad Malts. IV. Of the Use of the Pale, Amber and Brown Malts. V. Of the Nature of several Waters and their Use in Brewing. VI. Of Grinding Malts. Vii. Of Brewing in General. Viii. Of the London Method of Brewing Stout Butt Beer, Pale and Brown Ales. IX. Of the Country or private Way of Brewing. X. Of the Nature and Use of the Hop. XI. Of Boiling Malt Liquors and to Brew a Quantity of Drink in a little Room, and with a few Tubs. XII. Of Foxing or Tainting of Malt Liquors, their Prevention and Cure. XIII. Of fermenting and working of Beers and Ales, and the unwholsome Practice of beating in the Yeast Detected. XIV. Of several Artificial Lees for feeding, fineing, preserving and relishing Malt Liquors. XV. Of several pernicious Ingredients put into Malt Liquors to encrease their strength. XVI. Of the Cellar or Repository for keeping Beers and Ales. XVII Of Sweetning and Cleaning Casks. XVIII. Of Bunging Casks and Carrying them to some Distance. XIX. Of the Age and Strength of Malt Liquors. XX. Of the Profit and Pleasure of Private Brewing, and the Charge of buying Malt Liquors. To which is added, A Philosophical Account of Brewing strong October Beer, by an Ingenious Hand. By a Person formerly concern'd in a common Brew-House at London, but for near twenty Years past has resided in the Country. Recommended by the Dublin Society [Elektronische Ressource]
1735

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 June. Containing the following particulars, viz. I. A description of, and the uses of the excellent three-wheel and pulley drill ploughs, several sorts of horse-breaks, and hand instruments, as they are now employed by common farmers, for improving their crops of wheat, barley, pease, beans, rapes, weld, coriander, carraway, canary, seeds of trees, turneps, hops, and other vegetables, in the cheapest and most profitable manner. II. Of the furniture of a dairy, and the making of butter and cheese, according to the different practice of several counties: to which is added, an account, how the sweetest of butter may be had from milk taken directly from cows, though they be fed with a particular sort of artificial grass; and also how to make some of the best of cheese from the butter-milk of the same, as it was presented to the Royal Society, by a gentleman who got an estate by the constant practice of this method; and whereby the poorest ground may be advanced to the highest value. III. The true way of suckling house lambs, as it is performed by the meadow farmer and the plough farmer, so plainly wrote of, that those, who never saw this work done, may easily become masters of this curious art, by which cities and great towns may cheaply enjoy this delicate meat. IV. Of proper plowings, necessary to be done in this month, in high or low, wet or dry lands. V. A large account of making natural hay, and its preservation from firing, and other damage. VI. Of sheering sheep. The nature and value of the several sorts of wooll of Great Britain; and how it is run to France. VII. The unfortunate death of a lord of a manor, that was killed by his own bull; and how a blackmoor, in Buckingbamshire, killed a savage bull with only a bag of nails. VIII. T++ [Elektronische Ressource]
1743





A compleat system of experienced improvements : made on Sheep, Grass-Lambs, and House-Lambs: or, The Country Gentleman's, the Grazier's, the Sheep-Dealer's, and The Shepherd's Sure Guide: In the Profitable Management of those most serviceable Creatures, according to the present Practice of this Author, and the most accurate Grasiers, Farmers, Sheep-Dealers, and Shepherds of England. Shewing, I. How the best of Sheep may be bred. II. How to preserve them from Surfeits, Scabs, Wood-Evil, White and Red-Water, the Rot, and all other Distempers. III. How to cure Sheep when wounded, or diseased, particularly when they have the White or Red-Water, and even the Rot, if an early Application is made use of as directed; and this by such cheap and ready Remedies, that the poorest Farmer must be induced to use them, so that there need not be a rotten Sheep, or Lamb, in the Nation. IV. How to preserve Sheep from Having, or Sickening, to fat them in the quickest and cheapest Manner, and to cause them to have a sweet Flesh, while they are fatting on Turnips, or Rapes, contrary to the Nature of those rank Plants. V. How to make an hundred Ewes take Ram in an Hour's Time, either by artificial, or by natural Means, at any Time of the Year. VI. How to secure Lambs from being killed by Foxes. Vii. How to make the most Profit of rotten Sheeps Carcasses, or that die by Accident. Viii. How to teach Dogs six several Sorts of Discipline, for making them serviceable to Shepherds and others. IX. Many Impositions exposed relating to Sheep and Lambs. X. The newest Methods of suckling House-Lambs, in the greatest Perfection. With many other curious and serviceable Matters. A Work different from all others ever yet published, as it is explained and improved by great Numbers of various Cases, that have really happened; whereby the Woollen Manufacture, and Interest of Great Britain, may be more highly improved, than ever it was yet done, by keep++ [Elektronische Ressource]
1749