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 InfoLondon : Printed for J. Wright ..., 1649.
Description[26], 153, [8] p.
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SeriesEarly 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 noteReproduction of original in Bodleian Library.
References Wing B3193
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 525:5)
Other titleEnglish improver.
Other titleNew survey of husbandry.
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