Book I. 



BRITISH WORKS ON AGRICULTURE. 



1209 



17. An Enquiry Into the Propriety of applying Wastes to the 

 Maintenance ancl 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. Iiond. 1800. 4 vols. Svo. 



19". Essay on Manures. Lond. 1804. Svo. 



20. General View of the Agriculture of Hertfordshire ; 

 drawn up for the Board of Agriculture. Lond. Ig04. Svo. 



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

 folk. Lond. 1804. 8vo. 



U'i. 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. 

 ISOS. 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. 1811. Svo. 



1768. Dossie, Robert, Esq. 

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

 1770. Peters, Matthew. 



1. The Rational Farmer. Lond. Svo. 



2. Winter Riches. Lond. 1771. Svo. 



1770. Comber, Thotnas, LL. 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 Autlior and Arihur 

 Voung, 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 

 Vork, on the Rickets in Sheep. Lond. 1772. Svo. 



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

 was born at Edinburgh, 1733 ; settled as a physician 

 at Gainsborough, at Beverley, and finally at York, 

 where he died, 1809. 



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

 cularly considered. Lond. 4 vols. Svo. 



2. OutUnes of Agriculture. York. 1785. Svo. 



3. A new Method of raising Wheat for a Series of Years on 

 the same Land. York. 1796. 4to. 



1772. Farlo, C. Esq. 

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



1774. Barron, Williain, E.R.S.E., Professor of 

 Logic and Belles Lettres in the University of St. 

 Andrew's. 



Essays on the Mechanical Principles of the Plough. Edin. Svo. 



1775. Aien/, iVa^Artnie/, otFulham, Middlesex. He 

 studied agriculture in Flanders, and became an 

 emjnentland valuer and agent. He was also for some 

 time farm bailiff to George III. He died in 1S18. 



1. Hints to Gentlemen of Landed Property. Lond. 8vo. 



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. (Nicholton'a 

 Jvurnat, iii. 428.) 1799. 



1775. Harrison, Gustatms, 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. CuUen, and soon leaving his farm near Edin- 

 burgh, took one in Aberdeenshire of 1300 acres, 

 which, 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 neighbourhood 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 De- 

 scription 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 Rural AfTairs. Edin. 

 Svo. Lond. 3 vols. Svo. 



2. Miscellaneous "rhoughts 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 Iii.provements in these coun- 

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

 Treasury. Edin. 1785. Svo. 



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

 Natural State fitted for affording Fuel, or assusceptible of being 

 converted into Mould, 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 

 iU Improvement. Chiefly drawn up for the Board of Agricul- 

 ture, m two parts. Edin. 1794. Svo. 



C. A Practical Treatise on Draining Bogs and Swampy 



Grounds ; with cursory Remarks on the Oiighiallty of Elking. 

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

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

 1799. 6 vols. Svo. 



1776. Home, Henry, usually called Lord Kames, 

 an eminent Scotch lawyer, philosopher, and critic, 

 was born at Karnes, 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. 



The Gentleman Farmer; being an attempt to improve 

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

 Edin. Svo. 



1777 1816. Anon. 



Letters and Papers on Agriculture, Planting, &c., selected 

 from the Correspondence of the Bath and W'est of England 

 Society. Bath. 14 vols. Svo. 



1777. Clarke, Cuthbert. 



The true Theory and Practice of Husbandry, deduced froro 

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



1778. Forbes, Francis, gentleman. 



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

 Svo. 



2. The Improvement of Wastelands. Lond. 1778. Svo. 

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



and onej)f the earliest writers among that class in 

 Scotland. 



The Present State of the Husbandry in Scotland. Edin. 

 6 vols. Svo. 



1777. Black, Ja7nes, of Morden, Surrey, a;surveyor, 

 in his day in great practice. 



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

 of In.siruments adapted to this end. Lond. 4to. 



1778. Marshall, 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 Harbord 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 Surveys, 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 different 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 park and woody scenery on 

 various estates ; and finally retired to a considerable 

 property 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 in England, with a 

 view to a general work on Landed Property, which 

 he published ; another on Agriculture, which he did 

 not live to complete ; and a Rural Institute, in which 

 he was supplanted by the Board of Agriculture. 



1. Minutes of Agriculture, made on a Farm of 300 acres, of 

 various Soils, near Croydon, Surrey. Lond. 4to. 



2. Experiments and Observations concerning Agriculture 

 and the Weather. Lond. 1779. 4to. 



3. The Rural Economy of Norfolk. Lond. I78S. 2 vols. 

 Svo. 



4. The Rural Economy of Yorkshire. Lond. 1788. 2 vols. 

 Svo. 



5. The Rural Economy of Gloucestershire. Glouc. 1789. 

 2 vols. Svo. 



6. Rural Economy of the Midland Counties. Lond. 1790. 

 2 vols. Svo. 



7. Rural Economy of the West of England. Lond. 1796. 

 2 vols. Svo. 



S. The Rural Economy of the Southern Counties of England. 

 Lond. 1798. 2 vols. Svo. 



9. Proposals for a Rural Institute, or College of A griculture, 

 and other Branches of Rural Economy. Lond. 1799. Svo. 



10. On the Appropriation and Enclosure of Commonable and 

 Intermixed Lands. Lond. 1801. Svo. 



11. An Elementary and Practical Treatise on the Landed 

 Property of England, containing the Purchase and Improve- 

 ment of Landed Estates. Lond. 1S04, 4to. 



12. Treatise on the Management of Landed Estates. A 

 General Work for the Use of Professional Men, being an 

 Abridgment of the former. Lond. 1808. Svo. 



13. A Review and Complete Abstract of the Reports of the 

 Board of A griculture from the several Departments of England, 

 Lond. 181/. 5 vols. Svo. 



14. Of the Black Canker Caterpillar which destroys the 

 Turnips in Norfolk. (PhU. Trant. Abr. xv. 386.) 1783. 



1780. Boswell, George, a cultivator of his own 

 estate in Gloucestershire. 



Treatise on Watering Meadows; wherein are shown the 

 many Advantages arising from that Mode of Practice, particu- 

 larly on coarse, boggy, or barren Land*. Lond. Svo. 



