Thomas Jarvis - The Farmer's Harvest Companion - 1790

Title

The Farmer's Harvest Companion, and County Gentleman's Assistant; containing Exact and useful Tables ready cast up; shewing at one View, the Area or Content of any Piece of Land; the Expence of Workmanship of any Quantity; and the Value of any Number of Perches per Acre. Being a necessary Guide for Gentlemen's Stewards, Land Measurers, Buyers and Sellers of Wood; and particularly useful for Farmers in the Time of Harvest, and other Person, who put out Work, by the Acre. With sundry New Tables, by an Experienced Farmer, in the County of Kent Shewing the Expence of Threshing; the Value of Workmanship by the Hundred; the sowing Corn in Drills or Furrows, and ascertaining the Quantity of Seed per Acre.

Author

Thomas Jarvis

Year

1790

Publisher

Canterbury: Printed and sold by Simmons and Kirkby. Also by Booksellers in Town and Country

Description

Practical 18th-century farming manual offering pre-calculated tables for land measurement, crop yields, seed quantities, and labour costs. Designed for farmers, stewards, and land measurers, it provides efficient tools for managing acreage, harvest work, and agricultural accounting in late Georgian England.

viii, 160 pp.

Condition

Original full calf, slight spine loss and edge bumping, heraldic bookplate and contemporary inscriptions, pencil notes and sums.