The English improver, or, A new survey of husbandry : 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.
| Author/creator | Blith, Walter |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : Printed for J. Wright ..., 1649. |
| Description | [26], 153, [8] p. |
| Supplemental Content | https://search.proquest.com/docview/2240859236 |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| Partial contents | 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. |
| General note | Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library. |
| References | Wing B3193 |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 525:5) |
| Other title | English improver. |
| Other title | New survey of husbandry. |
| Stock number | CL0037000015 ProQuest Information and Learning. 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106 |
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