Deadly Adulteration and Slow Poisoning Unmasked: Disease and Death in the Pot and BottleAnonymous
Science
Deadly Adulteration and Slow Poisoning Unmasked: Disease and Death in the Pot and Bottle
Anonymous
Drug adulteration; Food adulteration and inspection
A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE; including all the Modern
Improvements and Discoveries, and the Result of all the Attention and
Inquiry which have been bestowed on this important Science during
the last Fifty years: the whole combining and explaining, fully and
completely, the PRINCIPLES and PRACTICE of MODERN HUSBANDRY, in all its
Branches and Relations. By R. W. DICKSON, M.D. Honorary Member of the
Board of Agriculture, &c. &c.
This Work includes the best Methods of Planting Timber of every
Description, and the improved Management of Live Stock, with a
Description of Implements and Buildings; the Theory of Soils and
Manures; the best Methods of Inclosing, Embanking, Road-making,
Draining, Fallowing, Irrigating, Paring, and Burning; the improved
Cultivation of Arable Lands, and of all kinds of Grain, artificial
Grasses, &c.; presenting the most useful and comprehensive Body of
Practical information ever offered to the Public on the interesting
Science of Agriculture.
_Extracted and abridged from the above Work, by the same Author, in
royal_ 8vo.
THE FARMER’S COMPANION, being a Complete System of Modern Husbandry;
including the latest Improvements and Discoveries, in Theory and
Practice.
The leading feature of excellence by which this Work is distinguished,
is that minuteness of practical detail, which renders it singularly
adapted to the purposes of Agriculture. The whole scope of its contents
has a constant and immediate connexion with the daily pursuits of
the Farmer, the Implements of Husbandry he employs, the Modes of
Agriculture he adopts, and the System of Pasture and Feeding he
pursues. These multifarious topics are all treated with simplicity and
clearness; so that the Work presents an ample, but distinct display
of every subject connected with the practical objects of a Farm. It
is illustrated with upwards of One Hundred Engravings, representing
improved Implements for Farming, various Breeds of Cattle, Sheep, &c.
Price 1_l._ 16_s._ boards.
_Sir John Sinclair on Agriculture._
THE CODE OF AGRICULTURE; including Observations on Gardens, Orchards,
Woods, and Plantations. By the Right Hon. Sir JOHN SINCLAIR, Bart.
Fourth Edition, in one large vol. 8vo. price 1_l._ in boards. This
Edition is considerably improved by a number of valuable Remarks,
communicated to the Author by some of the most intelligent Farmers in
England and Scotland.
The Subjects particularly considered, are
1. The Preliminary Points which a Farmer ought to ascertain, before he
undertakes to occupy any extent of Land.
2. The Means of Cultivation which are essential to ensure its success.
3. The various Modes of improving Land.
4. The various Modes of occupying Land.
5. The Means of improving a Country.
MOUBRAY ON POULTRY, PIGS, AND COWS.
[Illustration: A farmyard]
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