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.
| Author/creator | Meager, Leonard |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : printed by W. Onley, and are to be sold by Will. Majore, bookseller, in Newport, Cornwall, 1697. |
| Description | [12], 161, [7] p., [1] leaf of plates (fold) |
| Supplemental Content | https://search.proquest.com/docview/2240901165 |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Mistery of husbandry or arable pasture and wood land improu'd |
| Variant title | Mystery of husbandry or arable pasture and wood land improv'd |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| General note | At foot of title page: Price Bound 1s. |
| General note | 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. |
| General note | With initial table of contents. |
| General note | The final 7 pages contain advertisments for Henry Nelme. |
| General note | A reissue of an earlier edition printed for Henry Nelme. |
| General note | Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library. |
| References | Wing (2nd ed.) M1573 |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2191:06) |
| Stock number | CL0037000088 ProQuest Information and Learning. 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106 |