The Complete Farmer: Or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry is an 18th-century English-language encyclopaedia, holding a summary of information on agriculture and in all its branches. It was written by members of the Royal Society of Arts under the pseudonym a Society of Gentlemen, and first issued in 1756 and published in weekly numbers until 1768. Overview The Complete Farmer: Or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry is an 18th-century dictionary, which dealt with all branches of agriculture. It contained various contemporary methods of cultivating and improving land; of breeding, managing, and fattening cattle; of curing the various diseases etc. The whole was ranged in alphabetical order, and every thing, relating to the fame subject was contained in one article. It was supplemented with a Gardener's Kalendar for the use of farmers and others, which contained accounts of the work necessary to be done every month in the year, and accounts for the nursery and kitchen gardens. The Complete Farmer was written by anonymous writers, which used the pseudonym a "Society of Gentlemen," only revealing that they were members of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, the later Royal Society of Arts. The content was based on the insides of the foremost authorities, which were listed as "Carl Linnaeus, Michel Lullin de Chateauvieux, Marquis de Turbilly, Hugh Plat, John Evelyn, John Worlidge, John Mortimer, Jethro Tull, Ellis, Philip Miller, Thomas Hale, Edward Lisle, Roque, John Mills, Arthur Young." This work was first issued in 1756, and published in weekly numbers until 1768. The second enlarged and improved edition of the work was published shortly after the weekly publishing of first edition was finished to supply the demands of the public. The third edition was published in 1877, the fourth in 1793, and the last fifth edition in two volumes in 1807. According to Fussell (1930) The Complete Farmer was one of seven similar dictionaries published during the 18th century, of which the Dictionarium rusticum, urbanicum & botanicum, published in 1726, was the first. These dictionaries were the first of its kind in the British history only proceeded by 17th-century Dictionarium Rusticum, which was published as supplement to Worlidge's Systema Agriculturae in 1669. There general works were intended to assist in the management of their estates. Other 18th-century general works of this kind, where Hall's A Compleat Body of Husbandry, Lisle's Observations in Husbandry, Mill's A New System of Practical Husbandry,