The complete farmer or a general dictionary of husbandry in all its branches : containing the various methods of cultivating and improving every species of land, according to the precepts of both the old and new husbandry : comprising every thing valuable in the best writers on this subject, viz. Linnaeus, Chateauvieux, the marquis of Turbilly, Platt, Evelyn, Worlidge, Mortimer, Tull, Ellis, Miller, Hale, Lisle, Roque, Mills, Young, &c. : together with a great variety of new discoveries and improvements : also the whole business of breeding, managing, and fattening cattle of all kinds; and the most approved methods of curing the various diseases to which they are subject : together with the method of raising bees, and of acquiring large quantities of wax and honey, without destroying those laborious insects : to which is added the gardener's kalendar, calculated for the use of farmers and country gentlemen
The complete farmer is a 1777 English dictionary of husbandry compiled from older agricultural writers such as Tull, Evelyn and Worlidge, printed in London by J. F. and C. Rivington for farmers and country gentlemen. Its plates are engraved views of agricultural machinery, including ploughs, threshing and winnowing tools, churns, and seed drills, drawn in fine line with part labels and small figures, giving designers clear mechanical diagrams of eighteenth-century rural equipment.
