Book I. 



POLICE AND LAWS OF AGRICULTURE. 



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Stockholm ami Upsal every one knows has produced some useful naturalists ; some of these have wlrttten 

 tracts on agricultural improvements, especially on planting fruit trees {Frukt-Trad.) and cultivating culi- 

 nary vegetables {Kochs-och Krydd). A few of such works we have enumerated in our Bibliography of 

 Gardening (7696.), but we can scarcely find any fit to be inserted here as agricultural. The Natural 

 and Chemical Elements of Agriculture, by Count Gustavus Adolphus Gyilenborg, a learned Swedish 

 statesman, were translated by John Mills in 1770, and may be considered as the prototype of Davy's Agri- 

 cultural Chemistry. 



7119. Of Polish and Russian books on agriculture it may be easily conceived there are very few. Some 

 translations from French works were made into the Polish language under Fred. Augustus' II,; but few 

 or none since that time; the German or French being universally understood by the reading class. Books 

 of agriculture in the Rdssian language could be of little use. The only things printed in that way there 

 are in the transactions of the Economical Society of Petersburgh, by foreigners resident there, and in 

 Latin or German. The best informed Russian nobles read French or German like the Poles. There is 

 an agricultural society at Warsaw, who occasionally print their transactions. 



SuBSECT. 5. Agricultural Bibliography of North America. 

 7120. Tliere are a feiv American books of agriculture, and republications there of 

 most of our best works on the subject. Dean's New England Farmer s Dictionary y 

 and Dwight's Travels, may be considered as giving an idea of the husbandry of that 

 part of the country ; and Roughley's Jamaica PltCnter, of the agriculture of the West 

 India Islands. A number of interesting papers on the subject will be found in the 

 transactions of the American, New York, Philadelphia, and other societies. 



1744. Bartram, John, M.D., Philadelphia. 

 On the Salt Marsh MuseU:On Oyster Banks and the Fresh 

 Water Musell of Pennsylvania. (Phil- Trans. Ahr. ix. p. 70.) 



1754. Flemyng, or Fleming, Malcolm, M.D., of 

 Brigg. 



A Proposal in order to demonstrate the Progress of the Dis- 

 temper among Homed CatUe: supported by Facts. York, 

 Svo. 



175.'5. Belgrove, William. 



A Treatise upon Husbandry and Planting. Boston, New 

 Enf;land, 4to. 



1764. Elliot. 



Kssays upon the Husbandry in New England. Lond. -Ito. 



1779. Carver, Jonathan, Esq., born in America 

 in \7S2 ; died at London 1780, in great poverty. 



A Treatise on the Culture of the Tobacco Plant, with the 

 Manner in which it is usually cured, adai>ted to Northern 

 Climates, and designed for the Use of Landholders of (ireat 

 Britain, with two Plates of the Plant and its Flowers. Lond. 

 8vo. 



1789. Antill, Hon. Edward, Esq., of New Jersey. 



1. An Essay on the Cultivation of the Vine, and the Making 

 and Preserving of Wine, suited to the different Climates of 

 North America. {Americ. Trans, i. 181) 



'2. The Method of curing Fias ; jmd Observations on the 

 raising and dressing of Hemp. (lb. i. 266.) 

 1789. Bartram, Moses. 



Observations on the Native Silk Worms of North America. 

 ^American Tram. i. 294.) 



1789. Carter, Landon, of Sabine Hall, Virginia. 



Observations concerning the Fly-weevil that destroys the 

 Wheat ; with some useful Discoveries and Conclusion*., 

 {Tratis. Americ. Soc. i. 274.) 



1790. Dean, Dr. 

 New England Farmer's Dictionary. 



1800. Destere. 



ha Science du Cultivateur Americain : Ouvrage destin* 

 aux Colons et aux Commer^ans. 8vo. 



1801. Bardlet/, J. B. 



Essays and Notes on Husbandry and Rural Aflairs. Phila- 

 delphia, Svo. 



1812. Barton, Benjamin Smith, M.D., professor of 

 natural history and botany in the university of 

 Philadelphia. 



On the Native Country of the Solanum Tuberosum, or 

 Potatoe. (Nic. Jour. xxxi. 290.) 



1823. lioughley, Thomas, nearly twenty years a 

 sugar planter in Jamaica. 



The .Jamaica Planter's Guide; or, a System for Planting 

 and Managing a Sugar Estate, or other Plantations in that 

 Island, ana throughout the British West Indies in genenil. 

 Illustrated with interesting Anecdotes. Svo. 



Higgins, Jesse, of Delaware. 



A Method of Drainmg Ponds in Level Grounds. {Trans. 

 Americ. Soc. vol. 3. p. 3'i.5.) 



Greenway, Dr. James, of Dinwiddle County, in 

 Virginia. 



Of the Beneficial Effects of the Cassia Chama?crista, in 

 recruiting worn-out Lands, and enriching such as are naturallv 

 Poor. {^Tram. Americ. Soc. iii. p. 226.) 



Chap. V. 



Of the Professional Police and Public Laws relative to Agriculturists and Agriculture, 



7121. By Professional Police, we mean those associations which agriculturists have formed 

 at different times and in different manners for mutual benefit or instruction ; and also 

 those institutions for the same purpose established by the legislature, or of such a nature 

 as to be considered public, or national : by laws we allude to those special legislative 

 enactions which affect more particularly agriculture ; these are so numerous that we 

 must refer the reader to his lawyer or law dictionary. 



7 1 22. There are few or no agricultural lodges, of the nature of those of masonry or 

 gardening. In Scotland it would appear something of this kind had existed among 

 ploughmen at one time, as the passwords and initial ceremonies are talked of in some of 

 the counties by old men. In Forfar, Kincardine, Banff, &c. it is not uncommon for 

 ploughmen, as well as various descriptions of operatives, to belong to gardener's lodges. 

 In the southern districts where sheep farming is followed, there are some shepherd's so- 

 cieties for mutual interchange of experience, and aid in case of losses of such sheep as 

 are the shepherd's perquisite : there are some plouglimen's clubs in different places, and 

 various associations among them of the nature of benefit societies, but these do not come 

 under the description of professional. 



7123. Agricultural societies for interchange of knowledge are of modern date, but 

 they have increased rapidly since 1794 : the number at present or lately existing in the 

 British isles, is at least equal to the number of the counties. Societies of this description 



