. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. Chap. V. Improvement of Lands already in a Stale of Culture. 4568. A profitable application of many of the practices recommended in the chapters ofthis and the foregoing Book may be made to many estates which have been long undercultivation. It is certain, indeed, that the majority of those who study our work willhave that object more in view than t


. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. Chap. V. Improvement of Lands already in a Stale of Culture. 4568. A profitable application of many of the practices recommended in the chapters ofthis and the foregoing Book may be made to many estates which have been long undercultivation. It is certain, indeed, that the majority of those who study our work willhave that object more in view than the laying out or improvement of estates ab are the estates in Britain in which the farm lands do not admit of increased value, 750 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Part III by rectifying the shape of fields, adjusting tluir size, improving the fences, draining thesoil, or adding to the shelter ; and few are the farmeries that may not be rendered morecommodious. Of this, we shall give a few examples, after we Have stated the generalprinciples and modes of proceeding. Skct. I. General Principle* and Mode* <f Procedure, in improving Estates already more or less improved* 4569. The groundwork of improvement, on which a practical man may


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