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 ... : directions for marling, dunging, mudding, sanding ... : proper times for sowing, chusing good seed, and ploughing ... : how to keep corn and other pulse from being destroyed by birds, vermin, lightening, mildew ... : To which is added The countryman's alamack. / by Lenard Meager.

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 ... : directions for marling, dunging, mudding, sanding ... : proper times for sowing, chusing good seed, and ploughing ... : how to keep corn and other pulse from being destroyed by birds, vermin, lightening, mildew ... : To which is added The countryman's alamack. / by Lenard Meager.

Author

Meager, Leonard, 1624?-1704?

Publication

London :: Printed by W. Onley for Henry Nelme ...,

1697.

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Agriculture -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• illustration
• THE PREFACE TO THE READER.
• THE CONTENTS.
• THE Mystery of Husbandry: OR, Arable, Pasture, and Wood-Land IMPROVED.
  • The INTRODUCTION.
  • CHAP. I.
  • CHAP. II.
  • CHAP. III.
  • CHAP. IV.
  • CHAP. V.
  • CHAP. VI.
  • CHAP. VII.
  • CHAP. VIII.
  • CHAP. IX.
  • CHAP. X.
  • CHAP. XI.
  • CHAP. XII.
  • CHAP. XIII.
  • CHAP. XIV.
  • CHAP. XV.
  • CHAP. XVI.
  • CHAP. XVII.
  • CHAP. XVIII.
  • CHAP. XIX.
  • CHAP. XX.
  • CHAP. XXI.
  • CHAP. XXII.
  • CHAP. XXIII.
  • CHAP. XXIV.
  • CHAP. XXV.
    • Of the Single-wheel-plough.
    • Of the Double-wheel Plough.
    • Of the Turn-wrest-plough.
    • Of the Double-plough, ploughing two Furrows at once.
    • Of the Plough carrying a Harrow after it.
    • Of the Dutch Plough.
  • CHAP. XXVI.
  • CHAP. XXVII.
  • CHAP. XXVIII.
  • CHAP. XXIX.
  • CHAP. XXX.
    • Belonging to Arable and Field-Land.
    • Belonging to the Barn and Stable.
    • Belonging to Pastures and Meadows.
  • CHAP. XXXI.
  • CHAP. XXXII.
  • CHAP. XXXIII.
  • CHAP. XXXIV.
  • CHAP. XXXV.
  • CHAP. XXXVI.
  • CHAP. XXXVII.
  • CHAP. XXXVIII.
  • CHAP. XXXIX.
  • CHAP. XL.
  • CHAP. XLI.
  • CHAP. XLII.
  • CHAP. XLIII.
  • CHAP. XLIV.
  • CHAP. XLV.
  • CHAP. XLVI.
  • CHAP. XLVII.
  • CHAP. XLVIII.
  • CHAP. XLIX.
  • CHAP. L.
  • CHAP. LI.
  • CHAP. LII.
  • CHAP. LIII.
  • CHAP. LIV.
  • CHAP. LV.
  • CHAP. LVI.
  • CHAP. LVII.
  • CHAP. LVIII.
  • CHAP. LIX.
  • CHAP. LX.
  • CHAP. LXI.
    • Of the Buck and Hare; the manner of finding them, &c.
    • Of the Fox, Badger, and Wild-Goat.
    • Of the Otter.
• THE Countryman's Almanack:
  • Signs of Weather. And First, Of Rain.
  • Signs of Fair Weather.
  • Signs of Windy Weather.
  • Signs of Frosty Weather.
  • Signs of Snowy Weather.
  • Signs of Hail.
  • The Measure of Time.
  • Observations of things produced by Natural Causes, as Blazing-stars, &c. and the Causes.
  • Of Stormy Winds.
  • Ignis Fatuus, or Foolish Fire.
  • Of the Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, with their true Causes.
  • Of Whirlwinds.
  • Of the Rainbow.
  • Of the Nature and Properties of the Seven Planets.
  • The Ʋnfortunate and Fatal Days in the Year.
  • The Names and Properties of the Twelve Winds.
  • Of the Nativity of our Lord, falling on any of the Seven Days in the Week; thereby shewing the Disposition of the Year.
• ADVERTISEMENT.
  • BOOKS newly Published, and Sold by Henry Nelme, at the Leg and Star in Cornhill.
  • School-Books Printed for H. Nelme.