General view of the agriculture of the county of Lancaster with observations on the means of its improvement, from the communications of Mr. John Holt and the additional remarks of several respectable gentlemen and farmers in the county / Drawn up for ... the Board of Agriculture.

  • Great Britain. Board of Agriculture.
Date:
1795
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Credit: General view of the agriculture of the county of Lancaster with observations on the means of its improvement, from the communications of Mr. John Holt and the additional remarks of several respectable gentlemen and farmers in the county / Drawn up for ... the Board of Agriculture. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( ) Under one or other of thefe heads, every point of real impor- tance, that can tend to promote the general happinefs of a great nation, feems to be included. k Inveftigations of fo extenfive and fo complicated a nature, muft require, it is evident, a confiderable fpace of time before they can be completed. Differing indeed in many refpeds from each other, it is better perhaps that they fhould be under- taken at different periods, and feparately confidered. Under that impreflion, the Board of Agriculture has hitherto diredfed its attention to the firfl point only,- namely the cultivation of the furface, and the refources to be derived from it. That the fadls effential for fuch an inveftigatibn, might be colle£ted with more celerity and advantage, a number of intel- ligent and refpedlable individuals were appointed, to furnifh the Board with accounts of the ftate of hufbandry, and the means of improving the different diffridls of the kingdom. The re- turns they fent were printed, and circulated by every means the ' Board of Agriculture could devife, in the diftridfs to which they refpedlively related and in confequence of that circulation, ,a great mafs of additional valuable information has been ob- tained. For the purpofe of communicating that information to the Public in general, but more efpecially to thofe counties the moft interefled therein, the Board has refolved to re-print the Survey of eayh County, as foon as it feemed to be fit for publication; and among feveral equally advanced, the counties of Norfolk and Lancafter were pitched upon for the com- mencement of the propofed publication; it being thought moft / advifable, to begin with one-county on the Eaftern, and an- other on the Weftern coaft of the ifland. When all thefe Sur- veys fhall have been thus re-printed, it will be attended with little difficulty to draw up an abftradf of the whole (which will not probably exceed two or three volumes quarto)^ to be laid be- * fore I