. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE. Part I. ters of God into ; Boaz came into three estates by inheritance, and also a w
. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE. Part I. ters of God into ; Boaz came into three estates by inheritance, and also a wife, after much curious ceremony. (Ruth, iv. 8—12.) Large estates, however, were not approved of. Isaiah pronounces a curse on those " that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the ; While some portions of land near the towns were enclosed, the greater part was in common, or in alternate proprietorship and occupation, as in our common fields. This appears both from the laws and regulations laid down by Moses as to herds and flocks; and from the beautiful rural story of Ruth, who, to procure sustenance for herself and her widowed mother-in-law Naomi, " came and gleaned in the field after the reapers, and her hap was to light on a part of the field [that is, of the common field] belonging unto ; (Ruth, ii. 3.) 19. It would appear that every proprietor cultivated his own lands, however extensive ; and that agriculture was held in high esteem even by their princes. The crown-lands in King David's time, were managed by seven officers : one was over the storehouses, one over the work of the field and tillage of the ground, one over the vineyards and wine- cellars, one over the olive and oil-stores and sycamore (.Ficus Sycomorus Linn.) plant- ations, one over the herds, one over the camels and asses, and one over the flocks. (1 Citron., xxvii. 25.) King Uzziah " built towers in the
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