This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1795 Excerpt: ...the very shadow of partiality, sometimes imputable and applied, not entirely without reason, to gentlemen of the northern part of the kingdom, I shall retrench myself behind Farmer Ducket. The uniformly light sandy soil of Esher was reserved for the genius of Ducket to farm with advantage, by a process unknown till he invented it: but this process has unfortunately been transplanted into very different soils, and there attended with very different success. Had the fertile invention of that heaven-born farmer followed, a different process would have been adapted and pursued. Notwithstanding my respect for this prince of the drill husbandry, the custom of others deludes me into unwarrantable liberties, but,"Itrust, with better intentions, and induces me to transport him, in idea, to the light soil of the shire of Moray in Scotland, where, I conceive, he would be completely in his element: there, I fancy I see him drawing with one hand from under his corn stack, his light, simple, drilling wheelbarrow, and in plain modest language, delivered with that perfectly intelligible frankness and urbanity which are natural to him, instructing his northern neighbours in the use and application thereof. Thus, would he say, J trim my brushes and apertures when I sow wheat i thus, when I sow beans, &c. &c.; and thus when I sow peat ashes on my crops. He would then show them his skim ploughs at work, cutting the thin turf, and throwing it under their light staple to rot, instead of getting rid of it by a practice of which I hope they know nothing", and may for ever remain in ignorance. He would teach them to take three crops from one ploughing, that their light land may not be too much pulverized. I am credibly informed, that near 50 years ago, the then occupier of ... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге General view of the agriculture of the county of Hertford, with observations on the means of its improvement (Great Britain. Board of Agriculture)