[Smith, John] (fl.l684) 
Profit and pleasure united, or The husbandman’s maga- 
zene* Being a most exact treatise of horses cows ••• 
sheep, swine, goats, and all other domestick cattle, serv¬ 
iceable, profitable, or usefull to man together with 
easie and plain rules and methods for improving arrable 
and pasture-lands ••• improving most sorts of grain ••• 
the management, improvement and preservation of fruit- 
trees, plants and flowers: the manner of ordering flax, 
hemp, safforn and licrish: with directions for the in¬ 
creasing and preserving of bees ••• To which is added 
the art of angling, hunting, hawking, and the noble rec¬ 
reation of ringing. And making fireworks ••• By J. S, 
London, Printed for S, Lee [etc.] 1684. 210 p. (Lib. 
Cong.; Harvard (imperfect copy); Brit. Mus.) 
——By J. Smith, gent. London, Printed for J. 
Blare, at the Looking-glass, on London-Bridge, 1704. 
167 p. (Rothamsted) 
See also McDonald, Agricultural Writers 
(1908), p.166-156, and 207, to whom the 1704 
ed. only is known. Some confusion exists as to 
whether this John Smith might be the same one 
as the author of "England’s improvement reviv’d. 
MFW compared the 1684 ed. of "Profit and pleas¬ 
ure united" with the 1673 ed. of "England’s im¬ 
provement reviv’d" and saw so little similarity 
between them that she thought it very unlikely 
that they were written by the same person. 
—The husbandman’s magazene. Boston, Sold by 
Nicholas Boone, at the Sign of the Bible in Cornhill, 1718 
145 p. (Amer. Antiq. Soc.) 
Complete copy, with paging as above, at Amer¬ 
ican Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass. Let¬ 
ter from librarian to Miss Barnett, Jan. 1933, 
reporting this fact, mentions existence of in¬ 
complete copies also at N. Y. Public, Himting- 
ton, and private library of Mr. F. A. Jenks of 
Boston. (MFW-Feb.13,1933) 
The above imprint is taken from "Advertise¬ 
ment" on final page of the incomplete copy in 
the N. Y. Pub. Lib. which lacks a title-page. 
Socidt4 economique de Berne. See Oekonoraische gesellschaft des 
kantons Bern. 
