Cottage economy containing information relative to the brewing of beer, making of bread, keeping of cows, pigs, bees, ewes, goats, poultry and rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the affairs of a labourer's family; to which are added, instructions relative to the selecting, the cutting and the bleaching of the plants of English grass and grain, for the purpose of making hats and bonnets / By William Cobbett.

  • Cobbett, William, 1763-1835.
Date:
1824
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Cottage economy containing information relative to the brewing of beer, making of bread, keeping of cows, pigs, bees, ewes, goats, poultry and rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the affairs of a labourer's family; to which are added, instructions relative to the selecting, the cutting and the bleaching of the plants of English grass and grain, for the purpose of making hats and bonnets / By William Cobbett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. T. INTRODUCTION. To the Labouring Classes of this Kingdom. 1. THROUGHOUT this little work, I shall num- ber the Paragraphs, in order to be able, at some stages of the work, to refer, with the more facility, to parts that have gone before. The last Number will contain an Index, by the means of which the se- veral matters may be turned to without loss of time ; for, when Economy is the subject, time is a thing, which ought by no means to be overlooked. 2. The word Economy, like a great many others, has, in its application, been very much abused. It is generally used as if it meaned parsimony, stingi- ness, or niggardliness; and, at best, merely the re- training from expending money. Hence misers and close-fisted men disguise their propensity and con- duct under the name of Economy ; whereas the most liberal disposition, a disposition precisely the con- trary of that of the miser, is perfectly consistent with economy. 3. Economy means, management, and nothing more ; and it is generally applied to the affairs of a house and family, which affairs are an object of n