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STATISTICS OF AGRICULTURE. 



Part IV. 



1790. Rye, George. 



ObserTations on AEriculture. Dub. 8to. 



1731. Tull, Jethro, was born in Oxfordshire ; he 

 was a barrister, and made the tour of Europe ; after 

 which he settled on his paternal estate, which he 

 cultivated with so much attention as brought on a 

 disorder in his breast. He then went abroad, and, 

 on his return, fixed his residence on a farm in 

 Berkshire, where he renewed his experiments in 

 horse-hoeing husbandry : he died in 1740. His son, 

 John Tull, was an officer in the army, but ruined 

 himself by projects, and died in the Fleet in 1764. 

 {Gent. Mag.) Mr. TuU's farm was "situated at a 

 place called Prosperous (probably so called from his 

 great success), in a tract of very indifferent land, 

 lying on the north side of the Hampshire hills, near 

 the borders of Wiltshire, but being itself in the 

 county of Berks. It is, I believe, in the parish of 

 Ink-pen. I visited it in the company of Mr. Budd 

 of 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 

 of the real founder of every recent improvement 

 that has been made in the agriculture of England." 

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



1. Specimen of a Work on Horse-hoeing Husbandry. Lond. 

 4to. 



2. New Horse-hoeing Husbandry; or an Essay on the Prin- 

 ciples of Tillage and Vegetation ; wherein is shown a Method 

 ot introducing a sort of Vineyard Culture into the Corn Fields, 

 in order to increase their Product, and diminish the common 

 Expense by the use of Instruments, described in Cuts. 1733. 

 fol. 



3. Supplement to the New Horse-hoeing, &c. Lond. 1739. 



1732. Ellis, William, a farmer at Little Gaddes- 

 don, near Herael Hempstead, in Hertfordshire. 



1. The Modem Husbandman; or. Practice of Farming. 

 Lond. 1744. 8 vols. 8vo. 



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

 1750. 8vo. 



3. The Complete Planter and Cyderist. I-ond. 1757. Svo. 



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

 2 vols. 8vo. 



1737. Phillips, Robert. 



Dissertation concerning the present State of the High Roads 

 of England, especially those near London ; wherein is proposed 

 a New Method of repairing and maintaining them. Lond. 

 8vo. 



1741. Blackwell, Alexander, M.D., a native of 

 Aberdeenshire. Blackwell studied physic under 

 Boerhaave at Loyden, took the degree of M. D., 

 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 9. 1748. His wife Elizabeth was the author 

 of a curious herbal. 



A new Method of Improving cold, wet, and barren Land, 

 particularly clayey Grounds, &c. Lond. 8vo. 



1743. Maxwell, Robert, an eminent Scotch im- 

 prover. 



1. Select Transactions of the Honourable Society of Im- 

 provers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland. Edinb. 

 1743. 8vo. Plates. 



2. The Practical Husbandman. Edjn. 8vo. 1757. 



1744. Claridge, John. 



The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules to know of the Cliange of 

 the Weather. Lond. 8vo. 



17.'37. Home, Francis, M.D., Professor of Materia 

 Medica in the University of Edinburgh. 

 The Principles of Agriculture and Vegetation. Lond. 8vo. 

 17;)7. Lisle, Edward, Esq., late of Crux-Easton, 

 in Hampshire. 



"andry. 



1759. Stillingfleet, Benjamin, grandson to the 

 bishop of that name, and an ingenious naturalist 

 and miscellaneous writer, interesting in agricul- 

 ture as a promoter of the introduction of artificial 

 grasses ; was born about 1702 ; died 1771. 



1. Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Natural History, Hus- 

 bandry, and Physic. Translated trom the Latin ; with Notes. 

 Xond. 8vo. 



2. Calendar of Flora, Swedish and English, made in the 

 i-earl755. Lond. 8vo. 1761. 



1759. Mills, John, F.R.S., author and translator 

 of several works, and among others of Gyllenborg's 

 Natural and Chemical Elements of Agriculture, an 

 ingenious work for its time and country. 



1. A Practical Treatise of Husbandry, collected by Du- 

 hamel, and also the most approved practice ol the best English 

 farmers. Lond. 4to. 



2. A New and Complete System of Practical Husbandry. 

 Lond. 1762-5. 6 vols. 8vo. 



3. An Essay on the Weather ; with Remarks on the Shep- 

 herd of Banbury's Rules for Judging of its Changes, and Di- 

 rections for preserving Hives aud IluUdings from the fatal 

 effects of Lightning. Lond. 1770. 8vo. 



4. A TreaUse on Cattle, &c. Lond. 1776. 8vo. 



1760. llittf Thomas, gardener to Lord Manners, 



at Bloxholme in Lincolnshire, and author of a me- 

 ritorious work on fruit trees. 



A Treatise of Husbandry ; or the Improvement of dry and 

 barren Lands. Lond. 8vo. 



1761. Mordant, John. 



The Complete Steward ; or the Duty of a Steward to his 

 Lord. Lond. 2 vols. 8vo. 



1762. Dickson, Adam, A.M., minister of Dunse in 

 Scotland. Considered a good classical scholar, and 

 an excellent practical farmer. He died before The 

 Husbandry of the Ancients was prejiared for the 

 press, which is the occasion of some defects in that 

 work. 



1. Treatise on Agriculture. Edin. 8vo. This is one of the 

 best works on tillage that ever has appeared. 



2. The Husbandry of the Ancients. Edin. 1778. 2to1s. 8vo. 



1763. Anon. 



Museum Rusticum et Commerciale ; or Select Papers on 

 Agriculture, Commerce, &c. Ix)nd. 6 vols. 8vo. 



1764. Ladnar, of Kroy, in Yorkshire. 

 The Farmer's New Guide. Lond. 8vo. 



1764. Randall, J., some time master of the aca- 

 demy at Heath, near Wakefield, Yorkshire. 



1. The Serai- Virgilian Husbandry, deduced from various 

 Experiments. Lond. 8vo. 



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

 Furrow Plough, suited to all Soils; 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.D., F.R.S., a distin. 

 tinguished physician, and teacher of medicine in 

 London ; was born at Aberdeen, 1736 ; died 1802. 



Elements of Agriculture and Vegetation. Edin. 8vo. 



1766. Homer, Henry, an excellent classical scholar, 

 was born in Warwickshire, 17.52 ; died 1791. 



1. An Essay on the Nature and Method of ascertaining the 

 specific Shares of Proprietors upon the Inclosure of Common 

 Fields. Lond. 8to. 



2. An Inquiry into the Means of Preserving and Improving 

 the Public Hoads of this kingdom. Oif. 1767. 8vo. 



1766. Anon. 



The Complete Farmer : or a General Dictionary of Hus- 

 bandry in all its branches, &c., by a Society of Gentlemen, 

 Members of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, &c. London. 

 Fol. Plates. 



London, 1807, 2 vols. 4to, 5th edit, entitled The Com- 

 plete Farmer, or 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 himself by experiments. After this 

 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 ofAgricul. 

 ture, in which'he had Ralph Robinson, George 1 Il.'s 

 farming baiUff, 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 some years before his death, which happened 

 February 20. 1820. His works are numerous, and 

 his travels amusing. {Annual Biography^ 



1. The Farmer's Letters to the People of England, &c. 

 Lond. 8vo. 



2. The Farmer's Letters to the Landlords of Great Britain. 

 Lond. 1771. 8vo. 



3. A Six ^\'eeks' Tour through the Southern Counties of 

 England and Wales. Lond. 1768. 8vo. 



4. Tre.-itise on the Management of Hogs. Lond. 1769. 8vo. 



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

 Lond. 1770. 4 vols. 8vo. 



6. The Farmer's Guide in Hiring and Stockmg Farms, &c. 

 Lond. 1770. 2 vols. 8vo. 



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

 bandry. Lor.d. 1770. 8vo. 



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

 2 vols. 4 to. 



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

 1770. 4 vols. 8vo. 



10. ObservaUons on the Present State of the Waste Lands in. 

 Great BriUin. Lond. 1772. 8vo. 



11. Tour in Ireland; with General Observations on the 

 Present State of tliat Kingdom, made in 1776-7-8, and 9. 

 Dub. 1780. 2 vols. Svo. 



12. An Ess*y on the Culture of Cole-seed for feeding Sheep 

 and Cattle. 8vo. 



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

 lished in Nos. Bury St. Edmunds, 1790, 40 vols. 8vo. 



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

 particularly with a View of ascertaining the Cultivation, 

 Wealth, Riesources, and National Prosperitv of the Kingdom 

 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. 1797. 

 8vo. 



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

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

 Svo, 



