A Tour in Ireland. 1776-1779

A Tour in Ireland. 1776-1779

Arthur Young was born in 1741, the son of a clergyman, at Bradfield, in Suffolk. He was apprenticed to a merchant at Lynn, but his activity of mind caused him to be busy over many questions of the day. He wrote when he was seventeen a pamphlet on American politics, for which a publisher paid him with ten pounds worth of books. He started a periodical, which ran to six numbers. He wrote novels. When he was twenty-eight years old his father died, and, being free to take his own course in life, he would have entered the army if his mother had not opposed. He settled down, therefore, to farming, and applied to farming all his zealous energy for reform, and all the labours of his busy p. 6pen. In 1768, a year before his fathers death, he had published A Six Weeks Tour through the Southern Counties of England and Wales, which found many readers. Between 1768 and 1771 Arthur Young produced also The Farmers Letters to the People of England, containing the Sentiments of a Practical Husbandman on the present State of Husbandry. In 1770 he published, in two thick quartos, A Course of Experimental Agriculture, containing an exact Register of the Business transacted during Five Years on near 300 Acres of various Soils; also in the same year appeared Rural Economy; or, Essays on the Practical Part of Husbandry; also in the same year The Farmers Guide in Hiring and Stocking Farms, in two volumes, with plans. Also in the same year appeared his Farmers Kalendar, of which the 215th edition was published in 1862. There had been a second edition of the Six Weeks Tour in p. 7the South of England, with enlargements, in 1769, and Arthur Young was encouraged to go on with increasing vigour to the publication of The Farmers Tour through the East of England: being a Register of a Journey through various Counties, to inquire into the State of Agriculture, Manufactures, and Population. This extended to four volumes, and appeared in the years 1770 and 1771. In 1771 also appeared, in four volumes, with plates, A Six Months Tour through the North of England, containing an Account of the Present State of Agriculture, Manufactures, and Population in several Counties of this Kingdom. Thus Arthur Young took all his countrymen into counsel while he was learning his art, as a farmer who brought to his calling a vigorous spirit of inquiry with an activity in the diffusion of his thoughts that is a part of Gods gift to the men who have thoughts to diffuse; the instinct for utterance being almost invariably p. 8joined to the power of suggesting what may help the world. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 22387
Author: Young, Arthur
Release Date: Aug 25, 2007
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Editor: Morley, Henry, 1822-1894