Kay's Edinburgh portraits : a series of anecdotal biographies chiefly of Scotchmen . ces ; now, I think our accountsare closed. Take up your papers, man, and go home with an easymind ; your titles are excellent. Lord Kames, so eminent as a judge and an author, was also anamateur agriculturist of considerable reputation ; and his GentlemanFarmer was long held as a complete vade mccuni on the subject offarming. Among other contemplated improvements, he entertained anotion of the practicability of concentrating the essence of manure, soas not only to render the substance more productive, but the
Kay's Edinburgh portraits : a series of anecdotal biographies chiefly of Scotchmen . ces ; now, I think our accountsare closed. Take up your papers, man, and go home with an easymind ; your titles are excellent. Lord Kames, so eminent as a judge and an author, was also anamateur agriculturist of considerable reputation ; and his GentlemanFarmer was long held as a complete vade mccuni on the subject offarming. Among other contemplated improvements, he entertained anotion of the practicability of concentrating the essence of manure, soas not only to render the substance more productive, but the mode ofapplication less laborious. Conversing one day with a tenant, andseeing the immense quantity of ordinary mani;re he was laying on afield, Lord Kames observed that he coiald make the full of his snuff-box go as far in producing a crop. Gif ye do that, said the doubtingfarmer of the old school, Ill engage to carry hame the crap in myjwiicJi. Being on one occasion at Stirling, in his official capacity as a Lordof Justiciary, Kames invited Mr. Doig, a teacher there of deserved.
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