A Treatise on Cobbett's Corn: Containing Instructions for Propagating and Cultivating the Plant, and for Harvesting and Preserving the Crop; and Also an Account of the Several Uses to which the Produce is Applied, with Minute Directions Relative to Each Mode of Application. With an Addition, Containing a Statement of the Result of Experience Up to the Harvest of 1831William Cobbett, 1831 - 340 pages |
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