The modern husbandman : Or, The practice of farming: as it is now carried on by the most accurate farmers in several counties of England. For the month of June. Containing the following particulars, viz. I. A description of, and the uses of the excellent three-wheel and pulley drill ploughs, several sorts of horse-breaks, and hand instruments, as they are now employed by common farmers, for improving their crops of wheat, barley, pease, beans, rapes, weld, coriander, carraway, canary, seeds of trees, turneps, hops, and other vegetables, in the cheapest and most profitable manner. II. Of the furniture of a dairy, and the making of butter and cheese, according to the different practice of several counties: to which is added, an account, how the sweetest of butter may be had from milk taken directly from cows, though they be fed with a particular sort of artificial grass; and also how to make some of the best of cheese from the butter-milk of the same, as it was presented to the Royal Society, by a gentleman who got an estate by the constant practice of this method; and whereby the poorest ground may be advanced to the highest value. III. The true way of suckling house lambs, as it is performed by the meadow farmer and the plough farmer, so plainly wrote of, that those, who never saw this work done, may easily become masters of this curious art, by which cities and great towns may cheaply enjoy this delicate meat. IV. Of proper plowings, necessary to be done in this month, in high or low, wet or dry lands. V. A large account of making natural hay, and its preservation from firing, and other damage. VI. Of sheering sheep. The nature and value of the several sorts of wooll of Great Britain; and how it is run to France. VII. The unfortunate death of a lord of a manor, that was killed by his own bull; and how a blackmoor, in Buckingbamshire, killed a savage bull with only a bag of nails. VIII. The several benefits of keeping the pole, or hornless breed of cows and bulls, as now done by several gentlemen. IX. The management of a crop of turnep seed, and of sowing turneps in this month. X. The improvement of corn, hops, cows, calves, sheep, lambs, and bees. XI. Eighteen ways of keeping off and destroying rats and mice; and the case of an horse, who was near being killed by rats poisoned with mercury: with many other curious cases, and serviceable matters. By William Ellis, of Little Gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire. - Ellis, William, (Printed by and for George Faulkner,, 1743)