The natural and agricultural history of peat-moss or turf-bog. To which are annexed corroborative writings, correspondence and observations... / by Andrew Steele.

  • Steele, Andrew.
Date:
1826
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Credit: The natural and agricultural history of peat-moss or turf-bog. To which are annexed corroborative writings, correspondence and observations... / by Andrew Steele. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Letter from John Johnstone, Esq., Landsurveyor in Edinburgh, Author erf' the Account of Elkington‘>s Mode of' Draining Lands, and other Agricultural Works, to the Author. 1 st June 1826. I i. a st night finished the reading of your Manuscript on the Improvement of Peat-Moss Soils, with which I have been much gratified. I think it the most full, correct, and intelligible account of the subject that has hitherto been given, and will be highly useful to the landed proprietor and to the practical farmer. Particularly, I am much pleased with the ac¬ count of your own improvements at Crosswoodhill; for a short statement of practical facts will go fur¬ ther to convince and stimulate to a similar exertion than the most lengthened detail of theoretical spe¬ culation. If it had been published fifteen years ago, many thousands a year would have been added to the rental and product of the country. FINIS.