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A tour in Ireland

Travels, during the years 1787, 1788, and 1789. undertaken more particularly with a view of ascertaining the cultivation, wealth, resources, and national prosperity, of the kingdom of France. By Arthur Young, Esq. F. R. S. Honorary Member of the Societies of Dublin, Bath, York, Salford, and Odiham; the Philosophical and Literary Society of Manchester; the Veterinary College of London; the Oeconomical Society of Berne; the Physical Society of Zurich; the Palatine Academy of Agriculture at Manheim; the Imperial Oeconomical Society established at Petersburgh; Associate of the Royal Society of Agriculture at Paris; and Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Agriculture at Florence; and of the Patriotic Society at Milan.

Travels, during the years 1787, 1788, and 1789

Rural oeconomy

Annals of agriculture, and other useful arts. Collected and published by Arthur Young, ... Vol. I.

The farmer’s kalendar; or, a monthly directory for all sorts of country business

A six weeks tour, through the southern counties of England and Wales. Describing, particularly, I. The present state of agriculture and manufactures. II. The different Methods of cultivating the Soil. III. The Success attending some late Experiments on various Grasses, &c. IV. The Prices of Labour and Provisions. V. The state of the working poor in those Counties, wherein the Riots were most remarkable. With descriptions and copper-plates, of such newly invented Implements of Husbandry as deserve to be generally known

The farmer’s tour through the East of England. Being the register of a journey through various counties of this Kingdom, to enquire into the state of agriculture, &c. Containing, I. The particular Methods of cultivating the Soil. II. The Conduct of live Stock, and the modern System of Breeding. III. The State of Population, the Poor, Labour, Provisions, &c. IV. The Rental and Value of the Soil, and its Division into Farms, with various Circumstances attending their Size and State. V. The Minutes of above five hundred original Experiments, communicated by several of the Nobility, Gentry, &c. With Other Subjects that tend to explain the present State of English Husbandry. By the author of the Farmer’s letters, and the Tours through the North and South of England. In Four Volumes. ...

A course of experimental agriculture

A six months tour through the North of England. Containing, an account of the present state of agriculture, manufactures and population, in several counties of this kingdom. Particularly, I. The nature, value, and rental of the soil. II. The size of farms, with accounts of their stock, products, population, and various methods of culture. III. The use, expence, and profit of several sorts of manure. IV. The breed of cattle, and the respective profits attending them. V. The state of the waste lands ... VI. The condition and number of the poor, with their rates, earnings, &c. VII. The prices of labour and provisions ... VIII. The register of many curious and useful experiments in agriculture, and general practices in rural occonomics …

The farmer’s letters to the people of England