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035 _a(Sirsi) u155301
041 0 _aeng
100 1 _aTrowell, Samuel
245 0 4 _aThe farmer's instructor;
_b or, the husbandman and gardener's useful and necessary companion. Being a new treatise of husbandry, gardening, and other curious matters relating to country affairs. Containing A Plain and Practical Method of improving all Sorts of Meadow, Pasture, and Arable Land, &c. and making them produce greater Crops of all Kinds, and at much less than the present Expence. With Many New, Useful, and Curious Improvements, never before Published. First begun by Samuel Trowell, gent. and now compleated with a Supplement to every Chapter on Husbandry; giving an Account how poor Land, not worth above Five Shillings an Acre, may be made to bear as good Crops of Grain, Grass, &c. as the richest, after a very cheap Manner of Performance, by the Use of a New-Invented Excellent Four-Wheel Drill-Plough, which carries on it a Seed-Hopper and a Manure-Hopper, with a little Harrow; all which are so light, that a Man may easily draw it. By William Ellis, Farmer, At Little-Gaddesden, in Hertfordshire.
260 _aLondon
_bprinted for J. Hodges, at the Looking-Glass, over-against St. Magnus Church, London-Bridge
_c1747
300 _a[16], 275, [1] p.
_b plate
_c8o
583 _aCondition reviewed
_c20120620
_lcondition level 1
651 4 _aGreat Britain
_y1707-
690 _aRural
_96268
700 1 _aEllis, William
_dca. 1700-1758
942 _n0
999 _c113466
_d113466