l'JOS 



STATISTICS <>1 ; AGRICULTURE. 



IV. 



IT.^i. Rye, George. 

 Outai iitions on Ainoultan bd.. s\.,. 



it i. Tut/, Jelhro, was born In Oxfordshire ; he 

 wu ■ barrister, and made the tourol Europe: after 

 winch be settled on hit paternal estate, which he 

 cultivated with so much attention at brought on a 

 disorder in hit breait He then went abroad, and, 



Oil hi* return, Hxed his i I B latin in 



Berkshire, where he renewed In* experiments in 

 horse-hoeing husbandry; be died in 1740. I lis son, 

 John Tuli, was .in officer in the army, but ruined 

 himsell by project*, and died in the Heel in 1764. 

 a!i ni. Mag Mr iiui'- farm was "situated ;it a 

 place called Prosperous probably so c ailed from his 

 great success , in n trad ol very indifferent land, 

 lying on the north side of the Hampshire hills, near 

 the borders of Wiltshire, but being itself in the 

 County nl licrks It is, I believe, in the parish of 

 Ink. pen. 1 visited it in the company of far. Budd 

 hi Newbury, who had visited it long before with 

 Arthur Young, who, like me, visited it in the cha- 

 racter of a pilgrim, and in honour of the memory 

 c.i the real founder of every recent improvement 

 that ha* been made in the agriculture of England." 

 [Cobbett's Treatise on Cobbett's Corn, chap, vi.) 



l. Specimen of a Work on Horse-hoeiiig Husbandry. Loud. 

 4 to. 



'. Mew Hone-hoeing Husbandly; or an Essay on the Prin. 



\ Tillage and vegetation .- wherein is shown a Method 



during a M»rt of vine; .ml Culture into the Corn Fields, 



in order to increase ili'-ir Product, and diminish the common 



Expense by the use of Instruments, described in Cuts. 1753. 



i.e. 



3. Supplement to the New riorse-hoe'ng, dec. Lond. 1759. 



1732. EiliSj William, a farmer at Little Gaddes- 

 don, near Hemel Hempstead, in Hertfordshire. 



1. The Modern Husbandman; or, Practice of Farming. 

 Land. 1711. 8 vols. Svo. 



2. The Country Housewife's Family Companion. Lond. 

 17SO. Bvo. 



5. The Comph te Planter and Cyderist, Lond. 1757. Bto. 

 1. Ellis's Husbandry abridged and methodised. Lond. 1772. 



2 vols. Nvn. 



l'i 7. Phillips, Robert. 



Dissertation concerning the present State of the High Roads 

 «>t' England, espei tail] i os near I ondon ; wherein is proposed 

 ,t New .Method of repairing and maintaining them. Loud. 



,11. BlackweU, Alexander, Ml)., a native of 

 Aberdeenshire. BlackweU studied physic under 

 Boerhaave at Leyden, took the degree of M. I)., 

 practised as a physician at Aberdeen, and afterwards 

 at London, but meeting with no success, turned 

 printer, and became bankrupt in 1731. About 1740 he 

 went to Sweden, turned projector, and laid a scheme 

 before his Swedish Majesty for draining the fens 

 and marshes. He was suspected of being concerned 

 in a plot with Count Tessin, and was beheaded 

 August !'. 17 IS. His wife Elizabeth was the author 

 ol a curious herbal. 



A ii, w Method of improving cold. wet. .aid barren Land, 



irh clayey Grounds, &c. Lond. S\,>. 

 . I .. Maxwell, Robert, an eminent Scotch im. 



prov el. 



1. Select Transactions of the Honourable Society of Im- 

 provers in the Know ledge of Agriculture in Scotland. Edinb. 

 -.,,. Plates. 



:. The Practical Husbandman. Edin. Svo. 1757. 



1714. Claridge, John. 



Ih Shepherd of I: nl un's Rules to know of the Change of 

 lh< Weather. Lond. Bvo. 



17;">7. Home, Francis, M.I)., Professor of Materia 

 Medica in the University of Edinburgh. 



rhe Principles of Agriculture and Vegetation. I. ami. Bvo. 



1757. Lisle, Edward, Esq., late of Crux-Easton, 



in Hampshire. 

 Observal on on Husbandry. Lond. 4to, and 2 vols. Svo. 



1759. Stiltingflcet, Benjamin, grandson to the 

 bishop of that name, and an ingenious naturalist 

 ami miscellaneous writer, interesting in agricul- 



ture as a promoter of the introduction of artificial 

 grasses , n is lorn about 1702 j died 1771. 



!• M I rets relating to Natural History, Hus- 



bandry, and Physic. Translated from the Latin; with Votes. 

 Lond. 



lender of Flora, Bwedlsh and English, made in the 

 \i.ir 17V>. Lond. Svo. 17',1. 



17:<!'. Mills, John, l'.K.S., author and translator 

 I ral works, and among others of Gylli 



Natural mid Chemical Elements of A) riculture, an 



ingenious work for its time anil country. 

 I. A Prartical Treatise of Husbandly, collected by Du- 

 most appro ve d practice ol the best 



tanner., bona. Ito. 



'i. A New aid Complete System of Practical Husbandry. 



Land. 171. e'e S W»l . Bvo. 



3. An Kv.n on tie- Weather; with Remarks on tie SI m. 

 herd of Banbury^ Rulei f,,r Judging of it. i hanges, and Di- 

 rectioni tor prescrrlne Hives and Buildings from the fatal 



il Lightn ng. \*< il. 1 77' - 



4. .\ l" iti m Cattle, Sic. Lond. 1 77*.. Svo. 



1760. Hitt, Thtimas, gardener to Lord Manners, 



at Bloxholmc in Lincolnshire, and author of a mc 



ritonous work on fruit trees. 



i Ilusl andrj ; or the Iraproveinent of dry and 

 I., nil. Bvo. 

 1 i,l Mordant, John. 

 Tl,e Complete Steward ; or the Duty of a Steward to his 



I .,1. i Vols. Svo. 



I , - 1 a, /.•mi. Ail, i hi, A.M., minister of Dun so in 



Scotland Considered a good classical scholar, and 

 an excellent prat tn-.il tanner. 1U- died before The 

 Husbandry ••/ the Ancients was prepared for the 



press, which Is the occasion of some delects in that 

 work. 



1. Treatise on Agriculture. Edin. Svo. This is one of the 

 b I orks on tillage that ever has appeared. 



2. The Husbandry of the Ancients, /aim. 1778. 2vols.8vo. 

 176 -. Anon. 



Mus, uin Etustirnm et Commertcfale; or Select Papers on 



Agriculture, Commerce, \:c. Lond. ', vols. Bvo. 



17(jk Ladnar, of Kroy, in Yorkshire. 



The Parieer's New Guide. Lond. Svo. 



17(>4. Randall, ./., some time master of the aca- 

 demy at Heath, near Wakefield, Yorkshire. 



1. The Semi-VirgiUan Husbandly, deduced from various 

 Experiments. Iamd. Svo. 



z. Construction and extensive Use of a new-invented Seed 

 Furrow Plough, suited to nil Sods; of a Draining Plough ; and 

 of a Potato Drill Machine; with the Theory of a Common 

 Plough; illustrated with 7 plates. Lond. 1764. 4to. 



1765 Fordyce, George, M.I)., F.K.S., a distin 

 tinguished physician, and teacher of medicine in 

 London; was born at Aberdeen, 1736 J died 1-i'J. 



Elements of Agriculture and Vegetation. ltl}i. Svo. 



1766 Homer, Henry, an excellent classical .scholar, 

 was born in Warwickshire, 1752 j died 1791. 



1. An Essay on the .Nature and Mi thod of ascertaining tl e 

 specific Shares of Proprietors upon the fnclosure of Common 



1-1 Id-. Lena. Svo. 



2. An Inquiry into the Me:ms of Preserving and Improving 

 the Public Roads of this kingdom. Oxf. 17u7. Svo. 



17ori. Anon. 



The Complete Farmer: or a General Dictionary of Hus. 

 bandry in all its branches, &c, h, a Sod n ,,t Gentlemen, 

 Members of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, \c. Iamilon. 

 Fol Plates. 



London, 1S07, 2 vo's. 4'o, 5th edit, emit; d The Com 

 nlete Farmer, "i General Dictionary of Agriculture and Hus 

 bandry, &c, wholly re-written and enlarged. Plates. 



1767. Young, Arthur, F.R S., an eminent agricul- 

 turist, secretary to the Board of Agriculture, was the 

 son of Arthur Young, a prebendary of Canterbury, 

 and author of An Historical Dissertation of Corrup- 

 tions in Religion. He was born in 1741. He served 

 his apprenticeship to a wine merchant ; but on 

 entering into the possession of his paternal estate, 

 near Bury St. Edmunds, he became a farmer, and 

 impoverished ! imself by experiments. After tins 

 he set up as a teacher of others, and in 1771 pub- 

 lished a volume called The Farmer's Calendar, 

 which was followed in 1784 by The Annals of Agricul- 

 ture, in whicdYhe had Ralph Robinson, George 1 II. 's 

 farming bailiff, for a correspondent. Young also 

 made excursions through the British islands and on 

 the Continent, to collect information on subjects of 

 rural economy. At length a Board of Agriculture 

 was established, of which he was appointed secre- 

 tary, with a salary of six hundred a year. He became 

 blind sonic years before his death, which happened 

 February 20. 1820. His works arc numerous, and 

 his travels amusing. {Annual Biography.) 



1. '1'lie Farm, r's Letters to the People of England, flcC 

 I. .ri, I Svo. 



2. 'fhe Parmer's Letters to the Landlords of Great Britain. 

 Lond. 1771. Svo. 



ii. A Six Weeks' Tour through the Southern Counties of 

 England and Wales, fond. 17es. Svo. 



4. Treatise on the Management of Hogs, fxjnd. 17fi°. Svo. 



5. A Six -Months' Tour through the North of England. 

 Lond. 1770. I vols. Bvo. 



e. The Parmer's (iuide in Hiring and Stocking Farms, &c. 

 Lond. 1770. 2 vols. Svo. 



7. Rural Economy ; or Essays on the Practical Part of iius- 

 h.nulry. Lond. 1770. Bvo. 



S. A Course of Experimental Agriculture. Lond. 1770. 

 2 vo's. 1to. 



II. The Farmer's Tour through the East of England. Lond. 

 1770. 4 vols. Svo. 



III. Observations on the Present State of the Waste Lands in 

 Coil Britain. lond. 1772. Svo. 



11. 'four in Ireland; with G eneral Observations on the 

 Tie,, nl State of that Kingdom, made in 177G-7-S, and 'J. 

 Dub. 17so. 2 vols. Svo. 



. on the Culture of Cole-seed for feeding Sheep 

 and Cattle. Svo. 



1". Annals of Agriculture, and other useful Arts. Pub- 

 lisl edin Nos. Curs st. Edmunds, 1700. in vols. Svo. 



1 1. I rave i during the years 1787-8,and '.', under! ;ken more 

 rly with a View of ascertaining the Cultivation, 

 " i »'th, ii, sources, and National Prospt rity of the Kingdom 

 ol Prin,,.. Bun St. Edmunds, 1792. Ito. 2 vols. 



IS. General view of the Agriculture of the Countv of Suf- 

 f Ik ; dnwn up for the Board of Agriculture. Lond. 17'.'7. 



tiereJ View of the Agriculture of the Countv of Lin- 

 coin; drawn up lor the Board of Agriculture. Loud. 170'.). 

 Svo. 



