. The rural economy of Yorkshire, comprizing the management of landed estates, and the present practice of husbandry in the agricultural districts of that county . he king-dom, tht primary objei5t is to obtain theividely differing fradices of stationschofen in distant counties:—thepartial excellencies of intermediatedistricts, hovvfoever delirable theymay be, arc objects oi-a fecondary nature. PicKERiKo, 21 December March 1788, CONTENTS or THE FIRST VOLUjME. I. COUNTY - - Page I 2 Vale of Pickering - 12 3. Estates and Tenures - 19 4. General Management of Estates 23 5. Inclo
. The rural economy of Yorkshire, comprizing the management of landed estates, and the present practice of husbandry in the agricultural districts of that county . he king-dom, tht primary objei5t is to obtain theividely differing fradices of stationschofen in distant counties:—thepartial excellencies of intermediatedistricts, hovvfoever delirable theymay be, arc objects oi-a fecondary nature. PicKERiKo, 21 December March 1788, CONTENTS or THE FIRST VOLUjME. I. COUNTY - - Page I 2 Vale of Pickering - 12 3. Estates and Tenures - 19 4. General Management of Estates 23 5. Inclosures - - - 48(3. Farm Buildings - - 105 7. Drinking Pools - - 146 8. Roads - - - 180 9. Fences _ _ - ig^ 10. Shores and Surface Drains 224 11. Woodlands and Plantations 234 12. Farms . _ . 254 13. Farmers - - . 257 14. Workmen - - 259 15. Beasts of Labour - - 260 16. Implements - - 268 17. The Weather - - 284 18. General Management of Farms 290, 19. Succession - - 296 20. Soils and Soil Processes - 298 21. Manures and Manure Process 327 22. Sowing - - 35j 23. Weeds and Vermin - 354 24. Harvesting - - 3S735. Farm-Yard Management - 40026. Markets - - 409 w. -^ H E RURAL ECONOMY O F THE COUNTY. YORKSHIRE has always been fpokenof as the firft Province of thefe king-doms. If we confider its fuperior magni-tude ; the variety and flrength of its naturalfeatures; the fertility of its foils; and theinduftry of its inhabitants; the abundanceand copioufnefs of its rivers; the richnefsof the views on their banks; and the wild-nefs of thofe which are found among itsmountains j—it is well entitled to pre-emi-nence. Vol. I. S Viewed 2 T H E C O U N T Y. n Viewed as a field of Rural Economy, itis divifible into mountain, upland, andVALE. The Vale of York, falling gentlyfrom the banks of the Tees down to theconfiux of the Trent and Humber, is Na-tures grand divifiOn of the County intoEast and West Yorkshire. West Yorkshire naturally fubdividcsinto mountains, which I Ihall term
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