JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 
OF ENGLAND. 
JETHRO TULL: HIS LIFE, TIMES 
AND TEACHING. 
Men, like pictures, may be placed in an obscure light ; but, 
that being so, it is for the truth-seeking biographer a congenial 
duty to endeavour honestly to lift an originally excellent and 
worthy biographical portrait into the light of the present day, to 
free it from the dust of ages and the cobwebs of ungrateful 
neglect, to raise it up on high, and crying aloud to exclaim, 
" Behold the true portrait of a patriotic man worthy of abid- 
ing fame, who, judged by the standard of his own age, was a 
giant indeed, that, by taking giant steps far away in advance, 
conduced perhaps more than any man to the advancement of 
British agriculture, and thereby benefited his fellow countrymen, 
and materially added to the stature of his country." 
The world forgets so much and remembers so little. Until 
the other day Tull's grave was undiscovered, and even now no 
storied urn, no monumental brass, marks the modest grave of a 
man so worthy of honour. Yet more remarkable still is the 
fact that, although the student reads the name of Tull " writ 
large " on the face of every arable field in Great Britain, and 
over all the world wherever British agriculture is known and 
prevails, the ordinary reader — and such is fame ! — will say to 
himself, " Who was this man ? when did he live ? and what did 
he do ? " 
Jethro Tull in the early years of the reign of King George 
the Second wrote a book, entitled The Horse Hoeing Husbandry, 
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