. Hale's history of agriculture by dates. A simple record of historical events and victories of peaceful industries . ECLIPSE^—The Thoroughbred. 1764.—Eclipse foaled during the eclipse ofthat year; the most wonderful horse everproduced on the English turf; bred by theDuke of Cumlierland; got by Marske, agrandson of Bartletts Childers, out ofSpiletta. He puffed and blowed like anotter and galloped as wide as a barn door.— Lawrence. 1764.—Improved cotton-spinning machin-ery invented in England by Hargreaves. 1764.—First greenhouse on modern plansin this country constructed in New York. —Th
. Hale's history of agriculture by dates. A simple record of historical events and victories of peaceful industries . ECLIPSE^—The Thoroughbred. 1764.—Eclipse foaled during the eclipse ofthat year; the most wonderful horse everproduced on the English turf; bred by theDuke of Cumlierland; got by Marske, agrandson of Bartletts Childers, out ofSpiletta. He puffed and blowed like anotter and galloped as wide as a barn door.— Lawrence. 1764.—Improved cotton-spinning machin-ery invented in England by Hargreaves. 1764.—First greenhouse on modern plansin this country constructed in New York. —The London (England) Society of.\rts awarded a gold medal to BenjaminGale, of Killingworth, Conn., for a drillplow, the invention of which was claimedby Benonl Hilliard, of the same .\ SAXONY MERINO RAM.—A picturelepresenting this fine-wool Merino breed,which at one time was a rival of theSpanish Merino in America. This picturerepresents a ram of the early importationsfrom Saxony. 1765.—George Washington received a pairof blooded pigis from the Duke of Bedford, Bedford breed. 1765.—Merino sheep introduced into Ger-many by grant of the King of Spain to theElector of Saxony. 1765.—Saxon Merino sheep originated by(lock of 300 Spanish Merinos sent by Kingl^ouis. XV., of France, at the request of hisbrother-in-law. Prince Xavier. 1766.—In this year samples of home-madescythes, shovels, spades, hoes, etc., werelaid liefore the Society of Arts in New Yorkand approved. 1766.—John Wynn Baker, of Kildare, inIreland, commenced a system of rural-economy experiments and showed by actualexperiment that the saving effected by thedrill and horse hoe amounted in fifteenyears to the fee simple (value) of all thecultivated lands in the kingdom. 1766.—Field seed
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