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Society of Gentlemen

The complete farmer: or, A general dictionary of husbandry, in all its branches; Containing the various methods of cultivating and improving every species of land ... Comprising every thing valuable in the best writers on this subject, viz. Linnŭs, Chateauvieux, the Marquis of Turbilly, Platt, Evelyn, Worlidge, Mortimer, Tull, Ellis, Miller, Hale, Lisle, Roque, Mills, young ... Also the whole business of breeding, managing, and fattening cattle of all kinds … Together with the method of raising bees, and of acquiring large quantities of wax and honey, without destroying those labourious insects. To which is added, the gardener’s calendar … Illustrated with a great variety of folio copper-plates … exhibiting all the instruments used in husbandry; particularly those lately invented … for the encouragement of arts, &c. in London; many of which have never yet appeared in a work of this nature. The third edition, corrected and improved. By a society of gentlemen …