Letters and treatises on agriculture 1785-1788.

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Letters and treatises on agriculture 1785-1788.

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J. B. Bordley's reports on his agricultural experiments to Timothy Pickering, the secretary of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, on the subjects of potato cultivation (1785); sowing wheat in clumps (1785); treading out wheat (1786); description of Bordley's cluster drill for wheat with drawings of the apparatus (1786); fattening hogs (1786); scarcity of timber (1787); malt and beer (1787); use of ammonia (1787); John Singleton's method of sowing wheat on clover (1787); and S. C.'s method of reaping wheat illustrated with a detailed drawing (1788).

13 items (23 leaves).

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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