Book I. 



TOLICE AND LAWS OF AGRICULTURE. 



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written tracts on agricultural improvements, especially on planting fruit-trees (Frukt-Trud.) and culti- 

 vating culinary vegetables (Kochs-och Krydd). A few of such works we have enumerated in our Biblio- 

 graphy of Gardening (7696.), but we can scarcely rind any fit to be inserted here as agricultural. The 

 Natural and Chemical Elements of Agriculture, by Count Gustavus Adolphus Gyllcnborg, a learned 

 Swedish statesman, were translated by John Mills in 1770, and may be considered as the prototype of 

 Davy's Agricultural Chemistry, There are several treatises on the culture of the potatoe in the Swedish 

 Transactions ; also on tobacco, on the management of sandy soils, on the cultivation of the Cerealia ■ and 

 on the hop and plants for fodder. 



1825. Anon. : Kongl. Svenska Landtbriiks Academiens Annala. Year it. Part I. 8vo. 



1826. Winstrup, M., machinist to the king at Fredericksberg, near Copenhagen : Afbildwinger af de 

 bedste og nyt ste Agerdyrkningsredskabcr, &c. Copenhagen. 4to. 



7!>07 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 languag'e 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 Russian language could be of little use. The only things printed in that way there 

 are in the transactions of the Economical Society of St. 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, which occasionally prints its transactions; and another has lately been 

 established at Moscow, which publishes an agricultural newspaper. (See Gard. Mag. vols. i. and u.) 



1825. Par/of, M. : Zemliedeltcheskaia Chimia. Moscow. 8vo. 



1825. Apraxin, M., a nobleman possessing one of the largest houses in Moscow: Zemliedicltchesky 

 Journal, &c. Moscow. 8vo. 



1825. Anon : Avantages resultant de l'Introduction de la Culture varice des Terres. 'Warsaw. 8vo. 



Subsect. 5. Agricultural Bibliography of North America. 



7908. There arc a few American books of agriculture, and republications there of most of our best works 

 on the subject. Dean's Neiv England Farmer's Dictionary and Dwight's Travels may be considered 

 as giving an idea of the husbandry of that part of the country, and Roughley's Jamaica Planter 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. 



1714. Bartram, John, M.D., Philadelphia. 



On the Salt .Marsh Musell : I In I >v ,ter H.mks and the Fresh 

 Water Musell of Pennsylvania. {Pail. Trans. Abr. ix. p. 70.) 



17>4. Flemyng, or Fleming, Malcolm, M.D., of 

 Brigg. 



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

 temper among Horned Cattle; supported by Pacts. York. Svo. 



1755. Be/grove, William. 



A Treatise upon Husbandry and Planting. Boston, New 

 England. 4to. 



1764. Elliot. 



Essays upon the Husbandry in New England. Lond. 4to. 

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

 1732; 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, adapted to Northern 

 Climates, and designed for the Use of Landholders of Great 

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

 Bvo. 

 1785— 1826. Anon. 



Memoirs of the Philadelphia Society for promoting Agricul- 

 ture ; containing Communications on various Subjects in Hus- 

 bandry and Rural Affairs. Philadelphia. Svo. 



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. (Amerie. Trims, i. 181.) 



2. The Method of curing Figs ,* and Observations on the 

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



1789. Bartram, Moses. 



Observations on the Native Silk Worms of North America. 

 [Amerie. Trans, i. 2114.) 



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

 Observations concerning the Fly-weevil that destroys the 



Wheat; with some useful Discoveries and Conclusions. [Trans. 

 Amerie. Sec. i. 274.) 



1790. Dean, Dr. 



New England Favorer's Dictionary. 



1796. Higgins, Jesse, of Delaware. 

 A Method of draining Ponds in Level Grounds. (Trans. 

 Amer. Sac. vol. iii. p. 325.) 



179 . Greenway, Dr. James, of Dinwiddie county, 



in Virginia. 



Of the Beneficial Effects of the Cassia Chamaecrfcta in re- 

 cruiting worn-out Lands, and erreiching such as are naturally 

 Poor. (Trails. Amer. Sac iii. p. 22G.) 



1800. Destire. 



La Science du ( 'ultivateur A merican : Ouvrage des'tine" aux 

 Colons et aux Commercans. Svo. 



1801. Bordlcy, J. B. 



Essays and Notes on Husbandry and Rural Affairs. Phila- 

 delphia. Svo. 



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

 natural history and botany in the university of 

 Philadelphia. 



On the Native Country of the S'olanum tuberosum, or Po- 

 tato. {JVic. Jour. xxxi. 290.) 

 1821—1826. Anon. 



Memoirs of the Board of Agriculture of the State of New 

 York. Albany. Svo. 5 vols, to 1S26. 



1822. Fessenden, Thomas G. 



The New England Farmer ; containing Essays, original and 

 selected, relating to Agriculture and Domestic Economy, with 

 Engravings and the Prices of Country Produces. Boston. 

 b v.-ls. 4to to 1S27. 



1823. Boughlcy, Tho?nas, 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, 

 and throughout the British West Indies in general. Illustrated 

 with interesting Anecdotes. Svo. 



1825. Anon. 

 The Plougtrboy. Vol. ii. 4to. 



1825. Anon. 



Massachussetts Agricultural Repository and Journal. 7 vols. 

 4to. 



1828. Anon. 



New York Farmer and Horticultural Repository. New 

 York. 4 to. 



1829. Lathrop, E. L., Esq. 



The Farmer's Library ; a Series of Essavs and Papers for th« 

 Promotion of the Study of Agriculture- (Windsor, U.S. 12mo. 



Chap. V. 



Professional Police and Public Laws relative to Agriculturists and Agriculture. 



7909. By jrrofessional 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 enactments which affect more particularly agriculture. These are so nu- 

 merous that we must refer the reader to his lawyer or law dictionary. 



7910. There arc few or no agricultural lodges of the nature of those of masonry or gardening. 1 n Scot. 

 land it would appear something of this kind had existed among ploughmen at one time, a- the password! 

 and initiatory ceremonies are talked of in some of theoounties by old men. In Forfar, Kincardine, Banff, 



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