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William Ellis (1700-1758)

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Type of entity: Person

Name: William Ellis

Date of birth: ca. 1700

Date of death: 1758

Source of information: Special Collections

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Cookery A/ELL: The country housewife's family companion: or profitable directions for whatever relates to the management and good œconomy of the domestick concerns of a country life, According to the Present Practice of the Country Gentleman's, the Yeoman's, the Farmer's, &c. Wives, in the Counties of Hertford, Bucks, and other Parts of England: Shewing How great Savings may be made in Housekeeping: And wherein, among many others, The following Heads are particularly treated of and explained: I. The Preservation and Improvement of Wheat, Barley, Rye, Oats, and other Meals; with Directions for making several Sorts of Bread, Cakes, Puddings, Pies, &c. II. Frugal Management of Meats, Fruits, Roots, and all Sorts of Herbs; best Methods of Cookery; and a cheap Way to make Soups, Sauces, Gruels, &c. III. Directions for the Farm Yard; with the best Method of increasing and fatning all Sorts of Poultry, as Turkies, Geese, Ducks, Fowls, &c. IV. The best Way to breed and fatten Hogs; sundry curious and cheap Methods of preparing Hogs Meat; Directions for curing Bacon, Brawn, pickled Pork, Hams, &c. with the Management of Sows and Pigs. V. The best Method of making Butter and Cheese, with several curious Particulars containing the whole Management of the Dairy. VI. The several Ways of making good Malt; with Directions for brewing good Beer, Ale, &c. With Variety of Curious Matters, Wherein are contained frugal Methods for victualling Harvest-Men, Ways to destroy all Sorts of Vermine, the best Manner of suckling and fattening Calves, Prescriptions for curing all Sorts of Distempers in Cattle, with Variety of curious Receits for Pickling, Preserving, Distilling, &c. The whole founded on near thirty years experience by W. Ellis, Farmer, at Little Gaddesden, near Hempsted, Hertfords

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Cookery Bateman A/ELL: The country housewife's family companion

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Early Science 3 1744/ELL: The modern husbandman, or, The practice of farming

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Early Science 3 1744/ELL: The modern husbandman, or, The practice of farming

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Early Science 3 1744/ELL: The modern husbandman, or, The practice of farming

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Early Science 3 1744/ELL: The timber-tree improved, or, The best practical methods of improving different lands with proper timber : and those fruit-trees whose woods make the most profitable returns to their owners, according to the newest inventions, by the plough, harrow, and other methods most approved of. In two parts

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Early Science 3 1745/ELL: The timber-tree improved, or, The best practical methods of improving different lands with proper timber : and those fruit-trees whose woods make the most profitable returns to their owners, according to the newest inventions, by the plough, harrow, and other methods most approved of

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Early Science 3 1747/TRO: The farmer's instructor; or, The husbandman and gardener's useful and necessary companion : Being a new treatise of husbandry, gardening, and other curious matters relating to country affairs. Containing a plain and practical method of improving all sorts of meadow, pasture, and arable land, &c., and making them produce greater crops of all kinds, and at much less than the present expence. With many new, useful, and curious improvements, never before published. First begun by Samuel Trowell, gent. and now compleated with a supplement to every chapter on husbandry