The Contribution of the Propagandist to Eighteenth-Century Agricultural Improvement

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1469-5103|25|2|313-329

ISSN: 0018-246x

Source: The Historical Journal, Vol.25, Iss.2, 1982-06, pp. : 313-329

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Abstract

Were the knowledge of the ablest farmers in the best-cultivated parts of the island collected, - English Agriculture would be found, at this day, to be far advanced towards perfection… In short, the art of agriculture must ever remain imperfect while it is suffered to languish in the memory, and die with the practitioner: RECORD, only, can perpetuate the art; and SYSTEM, alone, render the science comprehensive. William Marshall, The rural economy of Norfolk, 1 (London, 1787), vi–vii.