Agricultural physiology : review / [Signed C].

Date:
[1850?]
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Credit: Agricultural physiology : review / [Signed C]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AGRICULTURAL PHYSIOLOGY. REVIEW. Q GOTLAND has long been celebrated for her advanced state ^ of agricultural knowledge, and for the zeal which has been there exhibited for the improvement of the art. So early as the year 1723, “ A Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agri¬ culture in Scotland” was established, and several volumes of its transactions were published. In 1755, this Society gave place to another, which in its turn was succeeded, in 1784, by the “ Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland,”—a society which has occupied, and still so justly occupies, the highest position among all the other agricultural societies in the northern portion of the United Kingdom, and is second to none in Britain for its efforts in promoting the cause of agricultural improvement. To the exertions both of these societies, and of many enter¬ prising individuals, joined to the industry and intelligence of her sons, must it be owing that Scotland has been for a long period, in a more advanced state of agricultural improvement, than any other portion of the British dominions. In paying this well-merited compliment to the Scottish farmer, he would totally mistake our meaning were he to suppose for a moment that we consider his system of agriculture even bordering upon a state of perfection. During the last few years, he is too well aware that his relation to other grain pro- 0 o