CHAPTER IV. 



ARTHUR YOUNG, AND SOME OF HIS AGRICULTUKAL 

 EXPBRIENCKS WITH REFERENCE TO CHICORY, 

 BURNET, AND OTHER FORAGE PLANTS. 



ARTHUR YOUNG, the widely-known writer on 

 agriculture and social economy, is described by 

 his friend, Dr. Paris, in the memoir written by him, 

 and which follows the prefaces to Young's great un- 

 published work, " The Elements and Practice of Agri- 

 culture," as being descended from a respectable family 

 who had resided on their estate at Bradfield Combust, 

 near Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, for more than 200 

 years. He was born September 7, 1741, and as a boy 

 was recognised by his early friends and preceptors as 

 a lad of very superior talents and indefatigable industry, 

 and of the correctness of this recognition he after- 

 wards gave ample proof. In 1758 he was placed in a 

 mercantile house, but showed no tact for commercial 

 pursuits, and he early evinced what his natural bent 

 was by publishing, when at seventeen years of age, a 

 pamphlet on " The War in North America," and also 

 by beginning a periodical work entitled "The Universal 

 Museum." After his father's death, in 1759, his mother 

 gave him the direction of Bradfield Hall, and in 1767 he 

 began to farm on his own account in Essex. In 1770 

 he published " A Course of Experimental Agriculture," 

 and between 1768 to 1770 his "Tour Through the 

 Southern Counties of England and Wales," his " Six 

 Months' "four Through the North of England," and his 

 " Farmers' Tour Through the East of England," books 

 which were favourably received, and translated into 

 most continental languages. He published, besides, the 

 " Farmer's Letter to the People of England," the 



