Book 1. 



rOLICE AND LAWS OF AGRICULTURE. 



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

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

 graphy of Gardening (7ti96.), but we can scarcely find any fit to be inserted here as agricultural. The 

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

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

 Davy's Agricultural Chemistry. Tliere are several treatises on the culture of the potatoe in the Swedish 

 Transactions ; also on tobacco, on tlie 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 9. Part I. 8vo. 



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

 bedste og nyeste Agerdyrkningsreiiskaber, &c. Copenhagen. 4to. 



7907 Of Polish aud 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 11. ; 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 ifse^ l"he 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, w hich publishes an agricultural newspaper. {See Gard. Mag. vols. i. and ii.) 



1825. Parlof, M. : Zemliedeltcheskaia Chimia, Moscow. 8vo. 



182^). Apj-aitin, M., a noWeman possessing one of the largest bouses in Moscow: Zemlit^diHtchesky 

 Journal, &c. Moscow. 8vo. 



1825. Anon: Avantages resultant dc I'lntroduttion de la Culture varide des Terres. Warsaw. 8vo. 



SuBSECT. 5. Agricultural Bibliogralthy of North Amenca^ ^ 



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

 on the subject. Dean's New 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 pai)ers 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 Musell : On Oyster Banks and the Fresh 

 Water MuseJl of Pennsylvania. {Phil. Traiu. Abr. ix. u. TO.) 



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

 Brigg. 



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

 temper amons Homed Cattle : supportod by Facts. York. Svo. 



1755. Belgrove, William. . 



A Treatise upon Husbaadry and Planting. Boston, New 

 England. 4to. 



17^. EUiot. 



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



1779. Cflr-seir.JojeafAaw, 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 U.se of Landholders of Great 

 Britain, with two Platte rf the Plant and its Flowers. Lend. 

 Svo. 



178'>-182<i. 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. Edivard, Esq., of New Jersey. 

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



and preserving of Wine, suited to the diif'erent Climates of 

 North America. {Americ. Trmts. i. 181.) 



i. The Method of curing Figs ; and Obser\'ations on the 

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

 - 1789. Bartram, Moses. 



Observations on the Native Silk Worms of North America. 

 !{Amerk. Tram. i. 294.) 



178.^. Carter, Landon, of Sabine Hall, Virginia. 



Observations concemina the Flv-weevi! that destroys the 

 Wheat; with some useful Discoveries and Conclusions. {Tram. 

 Americ. Sec. i. 274.) 



1790. Deon, Dr. 



New England Farmer's Dictionary. 

 1796. Higgins, Jesse, of Delaware. 

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

 Anwr. Soc. vol. iii. p. 325.) 



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

 in Virginia. . 



Of the Beneficial Effects of the Cassia ChamiEcrlsta in re- 

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

 Poor. \Trans. Amer. Hoc. iii. p. 226.). 



1800. Deslere. 



La Science du (^ultivateur -American ; Ouvrage destind aux 

 Colons et aux Commer^ans. Svo. 



1801. Bordley, J. B. 



Essays and Notes on Husbandry and Rural Affairs. Phila- 

 delphia. 8vo. 



i8l2.SBarton, Benjatnin Smith, M.D., professor of 

 natural history and botany in the university of 

 Philadelphia. 



On the Native Country of the Solanum tuberosum, or Po- 

 tato. (Aic. Jour. xxxi. 290.) 



18211826. Anon. 



JWemoirs of the Board of Agriculture of the State of New 

 York. Albany. Svo. 5 vols, to 1826. 



1822. Fessenden, Thomas G. 



The New England Farmer ; containing Essays, original emd 

 selected, relating to Agriculture and Domestic Economy, with 

 Engravings and the Prices of Country Produces. Boston. 

 5 vols. 4to to 1827. 



1823. lioughlcy, 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, 

 and throughwit the British West Indies in general. Illustrated 

 with interesting Atiecdotes. Svo. 

 182i5. Anon. 



The Ploughboy. Vol. ii. 4to. 

 1825. Ation. 



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 Fnrmer's Library ; a Series of Esssvs and Papers for the 

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



Chap. V. 



Professional Police and Public Laws relative to AgricuHunsts and Agriculture.. 



7909. Pi/ professional police we mean those associations which agriculturists have 

 Tormed, 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 arefeiv or no agricultural lodges of the nature of those of masonry or gardening. In Scot- 

 land it would appear something of this kind had existed among ploughmen at one time, as the passwords 

 and initiatory ceremonies are talked of in some of the counties by old men. In Forfar, Kincardine, Banfl, 



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