THE CREF LIBRARY GENERAL TREATISE ON CATTLE, THE OX, THE SHEEP, AND THE SWINE: COMPREHENDING THEIR BREEDING, MANAGEMENT, IMPROVEMENT AND DISEASES. DEDICATED TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD SOMERVILLE. BY JOHN LAWRENCE, Author of the New Farmer's Calendar, Modern Land Steward, &c. &c. LONDON: PRINTED FOR H. D. SYMONDS, PATERNOSTER-ROW, AK TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN LORD SOMERVILLE, THE REAL PATRIOT AND FRIEND OF MAN THE STEADY, ACTIVE AND INDEFATIGABLE PROMOTER OF THE AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS OF HIS COUNTRY, 1. THE NEW FARMERS' CALENDAR; or, MONTHLY REMEMBRANCER for all KINDS of COUNTRY BUSINESS; comprehending all the material Improvements in the New Husbandry, with the Management of Live Stock. Inscribed to the Farmers of Great Britain. Fourth Edition, 9s. boards. With an Additional Preface.CONTAINING, Reflections on the existing State of our Agriculture; its Me rits and Defects, the real Woods and Plantations. Causes and only effectual Re-Tillage and Fallowing. medy of Scarcity. Calendar: pointing out the Business of every Month in the Year, as it regards preparing the Land, Sowing, and Harvesting the various Crops, and the Management of Cat tle. Hiring and Stocking Farms, Farm Yard, its Form and Ma- The Drill Husbandry.--Dib- Cattle Winter Preservation of Roots, &c. Meadow and Pasture provement. Horses, Neat Cattle, Sheep, "The Science of Agriculture is, happily for this country, getting into universal repute; the iunumerable yet judicious publications on this subject are too tedious to be waded through by the generality of cultivators. To such we make no hesitatiou in observing, that this Book will prove a useful acquisition; displaying, in near six hundred pages, a combination of all that has been written, systematically arranged, and strengthened with useful remarks from the Author's experimental knowledge." Vide Gentleman's Magazine, January 1803. See also European Magazine, same date.” 72. THE MODERN LAND-STEWARD; in which the Duties and Functions of Stewardship are considered and explained, with their several Relations to the Interests of the Landlord, Tenant and the Public. 8vo. 10s. 6d. boards, "If the author had not already recommended himself to the public by his New Farmers' Calendar, and other works, the judicious observations and useful hints here offered, would place him in the list of those rural Counsellors who are capable of |