Author: [SOMERVILLE (John Southey Somerville, Baron)]
Title: Facts and Observations Relative to Sheep, Wool, Ploughs, and Oxen: in which the importance of improving the short-wooled breeds of sheep, by a mixture of the merino blood, is demonstrated from actual practice: Together with some remarks on the advantages which have been derived to the author's flock from the use of salt / by John, Lord Somerville.
Description: London: Printed for John Harding, 1809. Third enlarged edition, 8vo (225 x 145 mm), [8], 256 + 36pp., of publisher's catalogue "Harding's New Catalogue of Books on Agriculture", engraved frontis., and 8 engraved plates (of which 3 are folding), orig. boards, rubbed, spine defective, uncut. Provenance: Ownership signature of W. B. Thomas, April 18, 1810, Goldsmiths'-Kress, 19812; Perkins, 1640.

Keywords: AGRICULTURE HUSBANDRY FARMING SHEEP WOOL ECONOMICS