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Observations on the management of flax from the field to the heckle : with plans of lint mills on a new construction : a method of encreasing their profits, and employing their hands when stopt for want of water, or otherways, and a form of books, necessary for flax cleaners : also, a plan of farming books, to answer from five acres, to ten thousand, or any number, pointing out the employment of every person or beast on the whole, every hour of the day, with the expence of plowing, harrowing and reaping per acre, thrashing per boll, and the annual profit on each farm, &c. &c.
- Title
- Observations on the management of flax from the field to the heckle : with plans of lint mills on a new construction : a method of encreasing their profits, and employing their hands when stopt for want of water, or otherways, and a form of books, necessary for flax cleaners : also, a plan of farming books, to answer from five acres, to ten thousand, or any number, pointing out the employment of every person or beast on the whole, every hour of the day, with the expence of plowing, harrowing and reaping per acre, thrashing per boll, and the annual profit on each farm, &c. &c.
- Publication
- Printed at Edinburgh : To be had of the booksellers, and at the coffee-houses, and principal inns of Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1784.
Details
- Additional Authors
- Lizars, Daniel, 1760-1812.
- Found In
- nnac Pamphlets on agriculture. (CStRLIN)NYPG95-B5063
- Description
- [2], v, [5], 24, 14 p., [6] leaves of plates (5 folded) : ill.; 21 cm. (8vo)
- Uniform Title
- Plan of farming books. 1784.
- Subjects
- Note
- Signatures: pi⁴ 2pi² A-C⁴ ²[A]⁴ B⁴ (-B4).
- "A plan of farming books ..." (14 p. at end) has special t.p. and separate paging and signatures.
- Five leaves of plates contain tables from representative "day-labour books"; one is full-page engraving depicting lint mills, signed D. Lizars sculp.
- Call Number
- Arents 95-268 no. 3
- OCLC
- NYPG95-B4423
- Title
- Observations on the management of flax from the field to the heckle : with plans of lint mills on a new construction : a method of encreasing their profits, and employing their hands when stopt for want of water, or otherways, and a form of books, necessary for flax cleaners : also, a plan of farming books, to answer from five acres, to ten thousand, or any number, pointing out the employment of every person or beast on the whole, every hour of the day, with the expence of plowing, harrowing and reaping per acre, thrashing per boll, and the annual profit on each farm, &c. &c.
- Imprint
- Printed at Edinburgh : To be had of the booksellers, and at the coffee-houses, and principal inns of Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1784.
- Local Note
- No. 3 in a vol. with binder's title: Pamphlets on agriculture.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Lizars, Daniel, 1760-1812. Engraver
- Added Title
- Plan of farming books. 1784.
- Found In:
- nnac Pamphlets on agriculture. (CStRLIN)NYPG95-B5063
- Research Call Number
- Arents 95-268 no. 3