Volume 3

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.

  • Mills, John, -1784?
Date:
1762-1765
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    CHAP. VI. Of THE SITUATION OF FARMS AND FARM-HOUSES. THE ancient writers on husbandry, who lived in warm countries, where the heat and moidure of the air had fenfible, and frequently very dangerous, effeds on the health of the inha¬ bitants, were very particular in their diredions for the choice of farms, or edates, and of the fpots whereon houfes fhould be built, fo as to avoid the inconveniencies arifing from the climate, or from the quality or fituation of the ground. Though the temperate air which we enjoy in this ifland renders fuch diredions lefs necefiary here; yet, as feveral places in it are remarkably fickly, and as, even in the mod healthy fituations, many houfes and villages are built on the lead healthy fpots ; it mud be of confiderable advantage tor thofe who can make their choice, to know what fites and places ought to be avoided •, and to fuch as are already fixed, to be acquainted with the means of correding thofe inconveniencies which cannot be totally remedied. Indrudions of this kind are now full as necef- fary in our language, as they ever were in the Greek or Latin ^ the countries in which Englidi is fpoken being more extenfive, and more various in their climes, than even the Roman empireever was. The rule which I have preferibed to rnyfelf, of treating each ftibjed of this work as concifely and as plainly as it’s nature can well admit of, will not permit me to enlarge on this article, 1b much as it’s importance delerves, or in f© full a manner8 as might judly be expeded from an author who* fhould-