This CD ROM holds the scanned pages of the 2 Volume set of

The Modern Farmers Guide :

a new system of Husbandry from long experience in several kingdoms ;

never before made public ....... by a real farmer

Volume 1 consists of 408 pages and Volume 2 398

These rare volumes were printed in 1768 and include chapters on the following;

Volume 1

Chapter 1 - On Flax
Chapter 2 - The Full management of white flax
Chapter 3 - On seed flax
Chapter 4 - The pulling, watering, and full management of seed flax, in imitation of white
Chapter 5 - Directions for the management of Black or Bunchrate flax
Chapter 6 - Directions how to manage Dewrate flax
Chapter 7 - On breaking and swingling flax
Chapter 8 - Observations on flax feed
Chapter 9 - On French flax seed sieves
Chapter 10 - On winter flax
Chapter 11 - On flax among potatoes
Chapter 12 - Remarks on the tables
Chapter 13 - On Hemp
Chapter 14 - On Wheat
Chapter 15 - On different sorts of Wheat
Chapter 16 - Remarks and illustrations on Wheat
Chapter 17 - On Agriculture &c.
Chapter 18 - A Tale with remarks
Chapter 19 - An easy method how to manage 71 acres of land
Chapter 20 - On Agriculture in general
Chapter 21 - On smutty Wheat
Chapter 22 - On Barley
Chapter 23 - On mowing and harvesting Spring corn
Chapter 24 - Remarks on the foregoing tables (Barley)
Chapter 25 - On four different sorts of Barley
Chapter 26 - On different sorts of land for Barley
Chapter 27 - The management of Rye
Chapter 28 - Remarks and illustrations of Rye
Chapter 29 - On Oats
Chapter 30 - The explanation of five different sorts of Oats
Chapter 31 - On the management of Beans
Chapter 32 - On different sorts of Beans
Chapter 33 - On land suitable for Beans
Chapter 34 - Remarks and illustrations on Beans and Peas
Chapter 35 - On Town fields
Chapter 36 - On dividing Commons
Chapter 37 - The Authors method of dividing Commons
Chapter 38 - On the White Pea
Chapter 39 - On the grey Pea
Chapter 40 - On Buck-Wheat
Chapter 41 - On Rape and Cole seed, also how to manage Burn Beating
Chapter 42 - On Turnips
Chapter 43 - On Sheep fence for Turnips
Chapter 44 - The Life and travels of the Author
Chapter 45 - Explanation of the Machine that sows, harrows and rolls at one time

Volume 2

Chapter 1 - Remarks on the old broad cast husbandry and the authors
Chapter 2 - The authors new invented machine
Chapter 3 - Experiments made by the author in 1764
Chapter 4 - On turnip cabbage
Chapter 5 - On pickles for Wheat etc.
Chapter 6 - A receipt to kill red worms
Chapter 7 - How to set Potatoes with the plow
Chapter 8 - Remarks on setting Potatoes with the plow
Chapter 9 - Remarks on the table of Potatoes
Chapter 10 - Setting Potatoes in ridges, by trenching
Chapter 11 - On different sorts of Potatoes
Chapter 12 - To improve the ground and destroy whins and broom
Chapter 13 - The management and use of sitches
Chapter 14 - Explanation and nature of different sorts of Pulse
Chapter 15 - On Clover
Chapter 16 - On Cattle hoved by Clover and its cure
Chapter 17 - Remarks on Clover
Chapter 18 - On lucerne
Chapter 19 - On land proper for Lucerne
Chapter 20 - On SaintSoin
Chapter 21 - On Rye-grass
Chapter 22 - On Burnet
Chapter 23 - On different kinds of manure
Chapter 24 - An explanation of names
Chapter 25 - From whence bog proceeds
Chapter 26 - On reclaiming bog
Chapter 27 - Remarks on reclaiming
Chapter 28 - On mountain
Chapter 29 - A cure for wet and cold land
Chapter 30 - On Burn beating
Chapter 31 - Remarks on Burn beating
Chapter 32 - Remarks on the folly of burning stubble & Monthly Calendars
Chapter 33 - On making hay
Chapter 34 - On the culture of Madder
Chapter 35 - A Table shewing the expense etc on stock farms
Chapter 36 - On cures for Cattle
Chapter 37 - Misc cures
Chapter 38 - A scheme to maintain the poor and make them more useful to the public
Chapter 39 - Observations on the foregoing scheme and tables