Chiltern and vale farming explained
: according to the latest improvements. Necessary for all landlords and tenants of either ploughed-grass, or wood-grounds. Containing, I. The Nature and Improvement of the four Clays, four Loams, four Gravels, four Chalks and three Sands, with an Account of the Nature and Use of Stones in the common Fields. II. The Nature and Improvement of the Oak, shewing seven several ways to obtain a Wood thereof; also of the Beech, the manner of extracting its Sap after three different Methods for its long duration. The Ash, Elm, Witch-Elm, Hornbeam, Maple, Lime, Sycamore, Horse and Sweet Chesnut, Walnut, Hazel, White-Elder, and the Case of the Black-Cherry. And also of Asp, Sallow, Poplar, Alder, and other Aquaticks. III. Of the Excellency of the Whitelamas-Wheat, and all other Wheats, Barley, Rye, Oats, Peas, Beans, Thetches and Tills; with a Copy of two Letters from William Hayton Esq; of Clerkenwell, and the Author's Answer concerning the Propagating of Wheat and Rye in Northumberland. Also an Estimate of the Loss and Profit of Crops for the Year 1732. IV. Of Natural and Artificial Grasses, being Remarks on a late Author's Writings on Trefoyl, Clover, St. Foyne, Lucern, Rye-Grass and Cow-Grass: Also a method how to save the difficult Seed of Lucern. V. Of the Blights and Blasts, their Origin and Nature, their Mischiefs and Preventions. VI. Of Ploughing in general, being a full Explanation of broad Land-Ploughing, Bouting-up, Thoroughing down, Four-Thoroughing, Hacking or Combing; also the Vale way of Ridging up and Casting down: With Descriptions and Dimensions of the Wheel-Ploughs, also of the Foot, Creeper, Kentish, Newmarket, and a New-Invented light Plough that does almost double work with the same Horses that draw a single one. Vii. Of Sowing in general. Viii. Of Seeds, and to know the Good from the Bad. IX. Of Weeds in general, their Mischiefs and Cures. X. Of an Invaluable Liquor never before published, to steep Grain in for Sowing. XI. Of a new Method of Horse-Houghing, its Advantages and Disadvantages. XII. Of Turneps, and how to save them from the Slug, Fly and Caterpillar. XIII. Its several Uses on Ploughed and Sward-Grounds, and of the Quantities that may be necessarily consumed in one Year, by a fifty Pound a year Farmer. XIV. Of Manures in general, their Nature and Uses on proper Soils, &c. By William Ellis, Of Little Gaddesden in Hertfordshire, Author of The Practical Farmer, or Hertfordshire Husbandman