The husbandman's magazene. Being a treatise of horses, mares, colts, oxen, cows, calves, sheep, swine, goats: with directions for their breeding & ordering; and approved cures for all distempers, both external and internal, as frequently afflicts them, with speed and inconsiderable charge: together with plain rules for improving arable & pasture lands; improving most sort of grain to the best advantage; and what is necessary to be observed in sowing and harvesting: the management, improvement and preservation of fruit-trees, plants & flowers. The manner and ordering of flax and hemp; and increasing and preserving of bees. With cutts. By J.S.

People / Organizations

• J. S. (Author)

Imprint

Boston in New-England: Reprinted by John Allen, for Nicholas Boone, at the Sign of the Bible in Cornhill, 1718.

Publication year

1718-1718

ESTC No.

W12649

Grub Street ID

321933

Description

[4],145,[1]p. : ill. ; 8⁰

Note

First published at London in 1684, with title: Profit and pleasure united, or The husbandman's magazene .. by J.S. A second London edition with this title was printed in 1704. Sometimes attributed to John Smith, author of England's improvement revived.

Error in paging: p. 60 misnumbered 70.

Bookseller's advertisement, p. [146].

Uncontrolled note

Signatures: A-I? K?(-K4)