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Record Nr.

UNISA996385078103316

Autore

Blith Walter <fl. 1649.>

Titolo

The English improver, or, A new survey of husbandry [[electronic resource] ] : discovering to the kingdome, that some land, both arable and pasture, may be advanced double or treble other land to a five or tenfold, and some to a twenty fold improvement, yea, some now not worth above one, or two shillings, per acree, be made worth thirty, or forty, if not more : clearly demonstrated from principles of sound reason, ingenuity, and late but most certaine reall experiences, held forth under six peeces of improvement ... / / by Walter Blith .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for J. Wright ..., 1649

Descrizione fisica

[26], 153, [8] p

Soggetti

Agriculture - England

Agriculture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library.

Nota di contenuto

1. By floating or watering such lands as are capable thereof -- 2. By reducing boggy or drowned land to found pasture -- 3. By such a way of ploughing and corneing old courser pasture, as not to impoverish it, and by such a method of enclosure, as shall provide for poore, and all interests without depopulation -- 4. By discovering divers materials for soyle and compost, with the nature and use of them, as both tillage and pasture be advanced as high as promised -- 5. By such a new plantation of divers sorts of woods, as in twenty yeares, they shall rise more than in forty yeares naturally -- 6. By a more moderate improvement of other sorts of lands, according to their capacities they lye under, by more common experiences.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0014