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A new and complete system of practical husbandry; containing all that experience has proved to be most useful in farming. Either in the old or new method; with a comparative view of both; and whatever is beneficial to the husbandman, or conducive to the ornament and improvement of the country gentleman's estate / By John Mills.

  • John Mills
Date:
1762-1765
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Credit: A new and complete system of practical husbandry; containing all that experience has proved to be most useful in farming. Either in the old or new method; with a comparative view of both; and whatever is beneficial to the husbandman, or conducive to the ornament and improvement of the country gentleman's estate / By John Mills. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Horfe^hoeing Hufbandry ; and in the profccution of this, he gave proofs of the utility of thorough plowing, much beyond what was ever thought of before. — Though we find a ftrong inftancc of the partiality of the human mind in favour of it’s own productions, in his rating the advantages of plowing, or what he calls pulverifation, fo high as to render every other afiiftance needlefs-, yet pofte- rity will ever be indebted to him, for having planned the truly fenfible and beneficial pradlicc; — the path in which foreigners, animated with a laudable fpirit of emulation, are now treading, to the great emolument of individuals, and the con- fpicuous advantage of their country.— I am forry to be obliged, after having done this juftice to Mr. Tull, to pafs the fevere cenfure on his and my conntrymen, that they have never yet given his method a fair trial •, but have left a nation, our rival in glory, to determine it’s intrinfic merit, at lead: fo far as candid and accurate experiments, that touch-ftone of Arts, can throw a light upon the very interefting fubjed, and afeertain it’s Value. The unthinking multitude may look upon this as a poor infignificant vidlory over us: — but with the judicious Patriot, who rightly eftimates the almofi: innumerable advantages which flow from improved Agriculture, the names ofDuHAMEL, Chateauvieux, 8<:c. will far out-weigh thofe of the moft vaunted heroes blazoned in the annals of war*, and in another trad, the highefl: commen¬ dations Will be defervedly given to the Marquis of TurBILLY, who has doubled the number of in¬ habitants on his eftate, and quadrupled it’s pro¬ duce , and this, not on a finali farm, or an incon- fiderable fpor, but upon a large extent of coun¬ try : — an example, which, if followed, will be¬ come an infinitely more valuable, and a truly greater
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