The horse-hoeing husbandry: or, an essay on the principles of tillage and vegetation ... / By I.T. [J. Tull].

  • Jethro Tull
Date:
1733
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Credit: The horse-hoeing husbandry: or, an essay on the principles of tillage and vegetation ... / By I.T. [J. Tull]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CO a y T RoE PREFACE sae, THINK it unneceffary (if not inte ea pertinent) to trouble the Reader with a long Account of athort Trea~ tife, which he bas before him: ¥ might, as a Ruflick, omit the Cee vemony of a Preface, were it not oe § CC/ONAIE to Exped, that an Apolory willbe required for writing and publifbing a Book witha out the wfual Qualifications of an Author. It was not, indeed, my own Inclinations that prompted me to write; for (tho almoft all my Life has beeu a continued Sick- nes) I was fo far from being inclined to the Scribbling Difeafe, that 1 had difufed Writing for above twenty Years, before Lwas prevail’d on to commit my Thoughts upon Husbandry, and the Defcriptions of my Engines to Paper. The Soltcitations by LetterSwhich I can pro- duce (enough to make an ordinary Volume) from Pere fous of Rank, who had feen my Mazner of planting St. Foin, €c. I could not abfolutely refufe, votwithftard- ing the many juft Excufes I made for declining a Task of ; : be ae en) fy 4 \) da ce PIECES
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