1807 The Complete Grazier; or, Farmer and Cattle-Dealer's Assistant.

Description

Early Edition, Illustrated, Scarce

The second edition, revised, corrected, enlarged and greatly improved.

Bound in full cloth, with the endpapers renewed and original blanks retained.

Wonderfully illustrated with a frontispiece, two plates, one folding plate and vignettes throughout. Collated, complete.

'The Complete Grazier', or 'Farmer and Cattle-Dealer's Assistant' contains information required in nineteenth-century farming. Comprised of instructions for buying, breeding and rearing cattle; directions for the choice of livestock breeds; treatment of disease; irrigation and cultivating the meadows, and much more.

Together with an introductory view of the different breeds of cattle, sheep horses and swine, with an appendix on the improvement of the sheep dog, the horse and British wool.

Written by "A Lincolnshire Grazier", or Thomas Hartwell Horne, an English theologian and librarian.

Filled with the notes of a previous owner covering the front and rear blanks, with excellent farming tips on curing ailments, including 'Foot Rot in Sheep'.