Book I, 



BRITISH WORKS ON AGRICULTURE. 



1165 



10. Observations on the Present State of the Waste Lands m 

 Great Britain. Lond. 1772. Svo. 



11. Tour in Ireland; witli General Observations on the 

 Present State of that Kingdom, made in 17/6-7-8 and 9. 

 Dub. 1780. '2 vols. Svo. ^ ^ ^. eu 



12. An Essay on the Culture of Cole-seed for feedms Sheep 

 and Cattle. Svo. , , . , . 



13. Annals of AgTioulture, and other useful Arts. Pub- 

 lished in Nos. Bury St. Edmunds, 1790, 40 vols. Svo. 



14. Travels during the years 1787-8 and 9, undertaken more 



particularly with a View of ascertaining the Cultivation, 

 Wealth, Resources, and National Prosperity of th" * -i'"" 

 of France. Bury St. Edmunds, 1792. 4to. 2 vols. 



15. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Suf 

 folk : drawn up for the Board of Agriculture. Lond. 1/97. 

 8vo. 



16. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Lin- 

 coln; drawn up for the Board of Agriculture. Lond. 1799. 

 Svo. 



17. An Enquiry into the Propriety of applying Wastes to 

 the Maintenance and Support of the Poor. Lond. 1801. Svo. 



18. The Farmer's Kalendar, containing the Business neces- 

 sary to be performed on the various kinds of Farms during 

 every month of the year. Lond. 1800. 4 vols. Svo. 



19. Essay on Manures. Lond. 1801. Svo. , ^ ^. 



20. General View of the Agriculture of Hertfordshire; 

 drawn up for the Board of Agriculture. Lond. 1804. Svo. 



21. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Nor- 

 folk. Lond. 1804. Svo. 



22. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Essex. 

 Lond. 1806. 2 vols. Svo. 



23. General Report on Inclosures. Lond. 1807. Svo. 



24. General View of the Agriculture of Oxfordshire. Lond. 

 1808. Svo. 



25. A General View of the Agriculture of the County of 

 Sussex ; drawn up for the Board of Agriculture. Lond. 1808. 

 Svo. 



26. Advantages which have resulted from the Establishment 

 of the Board of Agriculture. Lond. 1809. Svo. 



27. On the Husbandry of those celebrated British Farmers 

 Bakewell, Arbuthnot, and Ducket. Lond. ISll. Svo. 



1768. Wildman, Thomas. 



Treatise on the Management of Bees. Lond. 4to. 



1768. Wall, Richard. 



A Dissertation on Breeding Horses, upon Philosophical and 

 Experimental Principles ; being an attempt to promote there, 

 by the Breed of Racers and Horses in general ; with some ob- 

 servations on Foreign Horses. Lond. Svo. 



1768. Dossie, Robert, Esq. 



Memoirs of Agriculture, &c. Lond. 3 vols. Svo. 



1769. Weston, Richard, Esq., an amateur cultiva- 

 tor in the country, and afterwards a tract writer in 

 London ; died about the beginning of the present 

 century. 



1. Tracts on Practical Agriculture and Gardening. Lond. 

 Svo. ^ , 



2. Tracts on Alabaster, or Gypsum, describing its powerful 

 effects as a very cheap manure, &c. Lond. 1791. Svo. 



1770. Peters, Matthew. 



1. The National Farmer. Lond. Svo. 



2. Winter Riches. Lond. 1771. Svo. 



1770. Comber, Thomas, L.L.D., Rector of Buck- 

 worth and Morborne, in Huntingdonshire, died 

 1778. 



1. Free and candid Correspondence on the Farmer's Letters 

 to the People of England, &c., with the Author and Arthur 

 Young, Esq. Lond. Svo. 



2. Real Improvement in Agriculture, on the principles of 

 A. Young, Esq. To which is added, a Letter to Dr. Hunter 

 of York, on the Rickets in Sheepv Lond- ^"72- Svo. 



1770. Hunter, Alexander, M.D., F.R.S.L. and E. 

 was born at Edinburgh, 1733 ; settled as a physician 

 at Gainsborough, at Beverley, and finally at York, 

 where ho died, 1809. 



1. Georgical Essays; in which the Food of Plants is parti- 

 cularly considered. Lond. 4 vols. Svo. 



2. Outlines of Agriculture. York, 1785. Svo. 



3. A New Method of raising Wheat for a series of years on 

 the same land. York, 1796 4to. 



1771. Baker, John Wynn. 



Experiments in Agriculture, made under the Direction of 

 the Dublin Society, in 1769 and 1770. Dub. Svo. 

 1774. Rinsrsted, Josiah, Esq. 



1. The Cattle Keeper's Assistant. Lond. Svo. 



2. The Farmer; comprehending the most interesting objects, 

 and beneficial practices, in the Culture of Wheat, Rye, Barley, 

 Oats, Buckwheat, &c. Lond. 1796. Svo. 



1774. Varlo, C. Esq. 

 A New System of Husbandry. Lond. 3. vols. Svo. 



1774. Barron, William, F.R.S.E., Professor of 

 Logic and Belles Lettres in the University of St. 

 Andrews. 



\ lEssays on the Mechanical Principles of the Plouj?h. Edin. 

 Svo. 



1775. Kent, Nathaniel, o{Y\x\h2im,WiAA\esex. He 

 studied agriculture in Flanders, and became an 

 eminent land valuer and agent. He was also for 

 sometime farm bailiff to George III. He died in 

 1818. 



1. HinU to Gentlemen of Landed Property. Lond. Svo. 



2. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Nor- 

 folk ; drawn up for the Board of Agriculture and Internal 

 Improvement. Norwich, 1796. Svo. 



3. Account of the Improvements made on the Farm in the 

 Great Park of His Majesty the King, at Windsor. {Nicholson's 

 ./ourna/, iii. 428.) 1799. 



8775. Harrison, Gustavus, Esq. 



Agriculture Delineated ; or, the Farmer's Complete Guide, 

 being a Treatise on Lands in General. Svo. 



1775. Anderson, James, LL.D., an eminent agri- 



cultural writer, was born at Hermiston, a village 

 near Edinburgh, in 1730, on a farm which his 

 parents had possessed for some generations, and 

 which he was intended to inherit and to cultivate. 

 He lost his parents at an early age, but his education 

 was not neglected; he studied chemistry under 

 Dr. Cullen, and soon leaving his farm near Edin- 

 burgh, took one in Aberdeenshire of 1300 acres, 

 wbicli, after improving and cultivating for twenty 

 years, he let, and enjoyed an annuity from it during 

 his life. He settled after leaving Aberdeenshire, in 

 the neighborhood of Edinburgh, where he pub- 

 lished the Bee, in weekly sixpenny numbers, till 

 it extended to 18 volumes. In 1797, he removed to 

 Isleworth, near London, where he published Recrea- 

 tions in Agriculture, in six volumes, and his Des- 

 cription of a Patent Hothouse. Here he enjoyed his 

 garden, and died of a decline in 1808, aged 69. 

 Besides the works which bear his name, he wrote 

 the reviews of books on rural matters for the 

 Monthly Review for many years. 



1. Essays relating to Agriculture and Rured Affairs. Edin. 

 Svo. Lond. 3 vols. Svo. 



2. Miscellaneous Thoughts on Planting and Training Tim- 

 ber Trees, by Agricola. Edin. 1777. Svo. 



3. An Account of the Present State of the Hebrides and 

 Western Coasts of Scotland, with Hints for encouraging the 

 Fisheries, and promoting other Improvements in these coun- 

 tries; being the Substance of a Report to the Lords of the 

 Treasury. Edin. 1785. Svo. 



4. A Practical Treatise on' Peat Moss, considered as in its 

 Nat-ural State fitted for affording Fuel, or as susceptible of being 

 converted into M ould, capable of yielding abundant Crops of 

 useful Produce, with full Directions for converting and culti- 

 vating it as a Soil. Edin.1794. Svo. 



5. A General View of the Agriculture and Rural Economy 

 of the County of Aberdeen, with Observations on the Means 

 of its Improvement. Chiefly drawn up for the Board of Agri- 

 culture, in two parts. Edin. 1794. Svo. 



> L6. a practical Treatise on Draining B<^ and Swampy 

 Grounds ; with cursory Kfemarks on the Originality of Elking- 

 ton's mode of Draining. Lond. 1794. Svo. 



7. Recreations in Agriculture, Natural History, &c. &c. 

 Lond. 1799. 6 vols. Svo. 



1776. Home, Henry, usually called Lord Kaimes, 

 an eminent Scotch lawyer, philosopher, and critic, 

 was born at Kaimes, in Berwickshire, 1796 ; died 

 1782. He farmed his own estate "in Berwickshire 

 many years; he afterwards removed to Blair Drum- 

 mond, near Stirling, where he made various and 

 extensive improvements, the most important of 

 which was the clearing, cultivating, and peopling 

 great part of Flanders Moss. (See 4196.) 



1. The Gentleman Farmer; being an attempt to improve 

 Agriculture, by subjecting it to the test of Rational Principles. 

 Edin. Svo. 



2. Observations concerning Shallow Ploughing. {Ess. 

 Phys. and Lit. iu. c. 68.) 



1777. Clarke, Cuthbert. 



The true Theory and Practice of Husbandry, deduced from 

 Philosophical Researches and Experience, &c. Lond. 4to. 



1778. Forbes, Francis, gentleman. 



1. The extensive Practice of the New Husbandry. Lond. 

 Svo. 



2. The Improvements of Waste Lands. Lond. 1778. Svo. 

 1778. Wight, Andrew, a farmer in East Lothian, 



and one of the earliest writers among that class in 

 Scotland. 



The Present State of the Husbandry in Scotland. Edin. 

 6 vols. Svo. 



1778. Black, James, of Morden, Surrey. 



Observations on the Tillage of the Earth, and on the Theory 

 of Instruments adapted to this end. Lond. 4to. 



1778. Marshal, William, Esq., a native of York- 

 shire, brought up to trade ; he was some years in 

 the West Indies, as a planter ; returned about 1775, 

 and took a farm in Surrey ; went down into Norfolk 

 as agent to Sir Haibord Harbord's estate in 1780 ; 

 he left this situation in 1784, and went and resided at 

 Stafford, near the junction of the four counties of 

 Leicester, Warwick, Stafford, and Derby, where he 

 remained till 1786, occupied in collecting materials 

 for his Economical Sujveys, and in printing some of 

 his works. From this time till about 1808, he re- 

 sided chiefly in Clement's Inn, London, in winter, 

 and visited diflferent parts of the country during 

 summer. He spent one summer in Perthshire, 

 chiefly on the Earl of Breadalbane's estates at Tay- 

 mouth ; and partly also on the Earl of Mansfield's 

 at Scone. He proposed arrangements for the tenant- 

 able land, and also the iiark and woody scenery on 

 various estates ; and finally retired to a considerable 

 proi^erty he purchased in his native country, in the 

 vale of Cleveland, in 1808, where he died at an ad- 

 vanced age in 1819. He was a man of little educa- 

 tion, but of a strong and steady mind ; and pursued 

 in the most consistent manner, from the year 1780 

 to his death, the plan he originally laid down ; that 

 of collecting and condensing the agricultural prac- 

 tices of the different counties of England, with a 

 view to a general work on Tended Property, which 



