Identifier: treatiseonpracti00russ (find matches)
Title: A treatise on practical and chemical agriculture, compiled, principally, from the scientific works of Sir H. Davy, when concurring with the experience derived from a long and extensive practice; with a dissertation on the cultivation of the soil, upon an improved and more profitable system; and the way to ascertain the value of land, tithes, and parish assessments. To these are added, An essay on red clover; likewise, some useful observations on selecting, breeding, rearing and feeding of stock; and other interesting matters connected with British agriculture
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Russell, Joseph, 1760-1846
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: Kenilworth : Printed for the author (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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se way, the machine is almost sure to pick up any heads thatescaped the first time. The machine can be easily worked by a smallhorse ; and one with a shorter cylinder might be readily workedby hand. The writer sent a model of this machine through the medium ofthe late Hon. R. F. Greville, to the Society of Arts and Sciences,when the late Sir Joseph Banks was the President, and received amark of honour from that Institution. The model was exhibited in theSocietys room for many years, and though no mechanic, to his know-ledge, has made a Clover-head Gathering-machine upon the sameprinciple, yet it seems to have been so far usefully deposited as tocause improvements in machinery for other purposes. The Lawn andBowling-green Mowing-machine,now so generally used, is constructedon the same principle, and works in the same manner, with the excep-tion that the cylinder and box are borne up by rollers instead ofwheels ; and the comb is also dispensed with when used for thispurpose. sM M ws p H
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1 tj •I 9 <3 ISv. ^ ^ 05 i <3 ^ CS %* ijj M 1I •I X o I I •si J li * .8 £ < CC o Q A TREATISE on AGRICULTURE, CHAP. I. CONTAINING SOME GENERAL INTRODUCTORY OB-SERVATIONS, AND SHEWING OP WHAT GREATIMPORTANCE THE CULTIVATION OF THE SOIL IS TO MAN. X HE Cultivation and the Produce of the Soil,forms a subject of the deepest interest to every classof persons united by the ties of friendly intercourse, inevery community of civilized society. Indeed, it isone of the first, and even the principal object thatstrikes, and fixes itself permanently on the mind ofman, the moment he emerges from a wandering stateof savage life ; for he no sooner finds that hecan depend upon the productions of the earth for asupply of food, more than sufficient to satisfy all hiswauts, than he fixes himself to one spot, becomes lord 14 of the soil, and exerts the whole of his newly-acquiredknowledge, in raising from his little principality, themeans of subsistence for himself and his family; and,in t

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