KUNOPÆDIA; being a Practical Essay on the Breaking and Training the English Spaniel or Pointer. To which are added, Instructions for attaining the Art of Shooting Flying; more immediately addressed to young Sportsmen, but designed also to supply the best means of correcting the errors of some older ones. By the late W. Dobson, Esq. of Eden-Hall, Cumberland. In One Volume, 8vo. Price 12s. boards.
Curtis on Grasses.
PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE BRITISH GRASSES, especially such as are best adapted to the laying down or improving of Meadows and Pastures: likewise an Enumeration of the British Grasses. By William Curtis, Author of the “Flora Londinensis,” &c. Sixth Edition, with considerable Additions. In 8vo. illustrated, with coloured Plates. Price 9s. in boards.
Skellet’s complete Cow-Doctor.
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE BREEDING COW, AND EXTRACTION OF THE CALF, BEFORE AND AT THE TIME OF CALVING; in which the question of difficult Parturition is considered in all its bearings, with reference to facts and experience; including Observations on the Disease of Neat Cattle generally. Containing profitable Instructions to the Breeding Farmer, Cowkeeper, and Grazier, for attending to their own Cattle during Illness, according to the most approved modern Methods of Treatment, and the Application of long known and skilful Prescriptions and Remedies for every Disorder incident to Horned Cattle. The whole adapted to the present improved state of Veterinary Practice. Illustrated with Thirteen highly-finished Engravings. By Edward Skellett, Professor of that part of the Veterinary Art. Price 18s. plain, £1:7:0 coloured.
“We have now before us a work which will be found a very useful addition to the Farmers’ Library; it is communicated in a plain and familiar style, and is evidently the result of long experience and observation, made by a practical man; every person connected with Live Stock should be acquainted with its contents, but to the Veterinary Practitioner it is invaluable.”—Farmers’ Journal.
A Complete Farm-House Library.
In Two large Volumes, in Quarto, price Four Guineas in Boards, illustrated with upwards of One Hundred Engravings, (Thirty of which are coloured from Nature,) representing improved Implements, the various Grasses, and the principal Breeds of Sheep and Cattle, from Original Drawings,
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.