A Treatise on Practical and Chemical Agriculture Compiled Principally from the Scientific Works of Sir Humphry Davy
Hardback published in 1831 by the author.
Compared with the experience derived from a long and extensive practice containing also a disseration on the cultivation of the soil. A chapter exhibiting upon plain and easy principles the way to ascertain the value of land tithes and paris assessments to which is added an essay upon red clover explaining the cause of the failure of that crop and what means should be adopted to restore the land to its former healthful state so that it will again produced that invaluable plant.
Likewise many useful observations on selecting, breeding, rearing and feeding of stock and various other interesting matters connected with British agriculture by Joseph Russell.
396 rough cut pages with tanning/foxing, Lacking all before title page and after last page of text.
Boards rather poor, scuffed and worn to extremities, crude repair with cloth tape on spine split along the front edge.