City Readers Digital Historic Collections at the New York Society Library

Arthur Young

A course of experimental agriculture: containing an exact register of all the business transacted during five years on near three hundred acres of various soils; including a variety of experiments on the cultivation of all sorts of grain and pulse, both in the old and new methods; the raising large crops of turneps, cabbages, carrots, potatoes, &c. and several plants not usually cultivated, as food for cattle; and the application of them to feeding or fattening of oxen, cows, horses, ... Also the management of the artificial grasses, particularly clover, ... The culture of madder. A particular comparison between the old and new husbandry. The management of pasture lands. On ploughing, harrowing, ... On the general feeding and fattening of cattle on various articles of food; … The implements of husbandry, their defects, improvements, &c. With other subjects of importance to the country gentleman and farmer. The whole stated in near two thousand original experiments. In two volumes …