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Author Meager, Leonard, 1624?-1704?
Title The mystery of husbandry: or, arable, pasture, and wood-land improved : 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.
Alternative Title Mistery of husbandry or arable pasture and wood land improu'd
Mystery of husbandry or arable pasture and wood land improv'd
Publication Info London : printed by W. Onley, and are to be sold by Will. Majore, bookseller, in Newport, Cornwall, 1697.


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Descript [12], 161, [7] p., [1] leaf of plates (fold)
Note 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.
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Author Meager, Leonard, 1624?-1704?
Series Early English books online.
Subject Agriculture -- Early works to 1800.
Alternative Title Mistery of husbandry or arable pasture and wood land improu'd
Mystery of husbandry or arable pasture and wood land improv'd
Descript [12], 161, [7] p., [1] leaf of plates (fold)
Note 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.
Author Meager, Leonard, 1624?-1704?
Series Early English books online.
Subject Agriculture -- Early works to 1800.
Alternative Title Mistery of husbandry or arable pasture and wood land improu'd
Mystery of husbandry or arable pasture and wood land improv'd

Subject Agriculture -- Early works to 1800.
Descript [12], 161, [7] p., [1] leaf of plates (fold)
Note 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.
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