I9 2 KALM'S ENGLAND. 



men the ploughs and implements which he has lauded 

 therein, although he had seldom tried them himself. 



He has also been for a time a Custom House officer, 

 or Exciseman, Tull-betjent, also for a long time with a 

 brewer in London. 



The Treatise he has written on Brewing, om Brygg- 

 ning, is considered by several in England as the best 

 of all his writings, because he relates therein his own 

 experiences. When he first came to Little Gaddesden 

 he was quite ignorant of Rural Economy. He had learnt 

 most of it there, but his neighbours will not yet recognise 

 him for so good a Farmer, Landtman, as many of them, 

 but said that he does not cultivate his arable and 

 meadows so well as the others. With his present and 

 second wife he had made a rich marriage, and with her 

 money bought the farm he now lives upon. At first he 

 undertook several experiments in husbandry, but he had 

 not been particularly lucky with them, for the most 

 part of what he had left of the money he got with his 

 second wife had in this way taken its departure, so that 

 he was poor enough. His spouse had grieved so much 

 over it, that she had not been able to recover herself, 

 komma sig fore. 



After a time, when he had made several tours in 

 England to note all sorts of things in Rural Economy, he 

 sat down to write books, and to have various [T. I. p. 193] 

 agricultural implements made to sell to others, in which 

 he had found his reckoning better, so that he has now 

 tolerably recovered himself, although he is not just so 

 particularly rich. Through this assiduous book-writing it 

 happens that his arable and meadows are worse cared 

 for than his neighbours'. Meantime his writings proved 

 their good and great worth, and gained especial renown ; 

 because he gave in them what he had with much trouble 

 and great industry collected during many journeys through 



