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Leighton Library has first edition of 1788 of 2 volumes of Adam Dickson's "The Husbandry of the Ancients"
Added at 07:59 on 11 December 2024
The Leighton Library has a first edition of the two volumes of Scottish writer on agriculture Adam Dickson's best-known work on agriculture, "The Husbandry of the Ancients" published in Edinburgh in 1788. This book is a comparison of agricultural practice in ancient times with that of the author's day. It wasn't published until after his death. It includes accounts of the Roman villa, crops, manures, and ploughs and the times of sowing, and this work built on his previous books in which he'd observed that other works on agriculture at the time "were ill adapted to the soil and climate of Scotland, and consisted of theories rather than facts supported by experience. This treatise is practical and excellently adapted to the farming of Scotland." It covered soils, tillage, manures, schemes of managing farms and suggestions for their improvement
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