The mystery of husbandry: or, arable, pasture, and wood-land improved [[electronic resource] ] : Containing the whole art and mystery of agriculture or husbandry, in bettering and improving all degrees of land, fertilizing the barrenest soil, recovering it from weeds, bushes, briars, rushes, flags, overflowings of salt or unwholsom waters, to bear good corn, or become meadow or pasture. Directions for marling, dunging, mudding, sanding, flowing, trenching, and other methods of improving land to the best advantage. Proper times for sowing, chusing good seed, and ploughing; with the description of useful ploughs suitable to the different forts of ground, &c. How to keep corn, and other pulse, from being destroyed by birds, vermin, lightning, mildew, blasts, smuttiness, cold winds, &c. Harvestwork, inning or stacking, &c. The best graineries for preserving corn and pulse, &c. How to know smutty or washed corn from others. Proper tools for husbandry and day-labour computed. ... To which is added, The countryman's almanack. By Leonard Meager

• Autore: Meager Leonard <1624?-1704?>
• Pubblicazione: London, : printed by W. Onley, and are to be sold by Will. Majore, bookseller, in Newport, Cornwall, 1697
• Descrizione fisica: [12], 161, [7] p., [1] leaf of plates (fold)
• Soggetto topico: Agriculture
• Note generali: At foot of title page: Price Bound 1s.; Plate has title: The mistery of husbandry or arable pasture and wood land improu'd.; and imprint: London Printed for Henry Nelme at the Leg and Star in Cornhill.; With initial table of contents.; The final 7 pages contain advertisments for Henry Nelme.; A reissue of an earlier edition printed for Henry Nelme.; Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0014
• Titolo autorizzato: The mystery of husbandry: or, arable, pasture, and wood-land improved
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996390190703316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno