02260nam 2200373Ia 450 99638507810331620221108093712.0(CKB)4940000000073418(EEBO)2240859236(OCoLC)11734025(EXLCZ)99494000000007341819850225d1649 uy |engurbn||||a|bb|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 ..London Printed for J. Wright ...1649[26], 153, [8] pReproduction of original in Bodleian Library.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.eebo-0014AgricultureEnglandAgricultureEarly works to 1800AgricultureAgricultureBlith Walterfl. 1649.1006365EAAEAAm/cUMIWaOLNBOOK996385078103316The English improver, or a new survey of husbandry2315781UNISA