Identifier: pdiaofaencyclo00loudrich (find matches)
Title: An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843
Subjects: Agriculture -- Dictionaries
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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