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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 De∣grees of Land, fertilizing the barrenest Soil, re∣covering 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 Im∣proving Land to the best Advantage.
Proper Times for Sowing, chusing good Seed, and Ploughing; w••th the Description of useful Ploughs suitable to the different sorts of Ground, &c.
How to keep Corn, and other Pulse, from being de∣stroyed by Birds, Vermin, Lightning, Mildew, Blasts, Smuttiness, cold Winds, &c. Harvest-work, 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.
Improvement of Land by Turneps, Carrots, Sassion, Madder, Hops, Would or Woad, Coal, Seed, Hemp, Flax, Clover, St. Foin, &c.
Wood-land to improve, in setting, lopping, and ma∣naging to a vast Increase; the great Advantage of Inclosures, &c.
To which is added, The Countryman's ALMANACK.
By LEONARD MEAGER.
LONDON: Printed by W. Onley, for Henry Nelme at the Leg and Star in Cornhill. 1697.
Price Bound 1 s.