Husbandry anatomized, or, An enquiry into the present manner of teiling and manuring the ground in Scotland for most part and several rules and measures laid down for the better improvement thereof, in so much that one third part more increase may be had, and yet more than a third part of the expence of the present way of labouring thereof saved / by Ja. Donaldson.
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Husbandry anatomized, or, An enquiry into the present manner of teiling and manuring the ground in Scotland for most part and several rules and measures laid down for the better improvement thereof, in so much that one third part more increase may be had, and yet more than a third part of the expence of the present way of labouring thereof saved / by Ja. Donaldson.
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Donaldson, James, fl. 1697-1713.
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Edinburgh :: Printed by John Reid,
1697.
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Agriculture -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800.
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"Husbandry anatomized, or, An enquiry into the present manner of teiling and manuring the ground in Scotland for most part and several rules and measures laid down for the better improvement thereof, in so much that one third part more increase may be had, and yet more than a third part of the expence of the present way of labouring thereof saved / by Ja. Donaldson." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A36288.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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THE PREFACE to the READER
NEighbours and Country men, this small Treatise may seem to bear a Title which in the following Sheets can∣not be made good, I confess before I took a particular look into every Circumstance of this Project, I could scarce beleive such a thing could be: But after peruse••, let the Iudicious Reader Iudge how far I have accomplished my Undertaking. I know it is seldom that any new Project is much encouraged by most of you, and he that proposeth it reputed a Wise Man: However, I have rather chosen to hazard upon the Censure of all, than conceal that which may be profitable to any; And se∣ing the chief mistery of this Project consists in your Prudent and Exact Calculation, (as I remarked in my Answer to the 2d. Objection) wherefore I yet once more Re∣comend it in this and all other Cases.
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I doubt not but some may cast it in my Teeth, since I am so good at Teaching others how to improve their Stocks; How cometh it to pass, that I have been so far mistaken in forecasting of my own Affairs? To which I Answer, Perhaps I may now be a better Gamester than for∣merly, while my Carts were a playing. Moreover, it was not altogether my want of Skill in Calculating, that made my Projects to misgive; But grant it to be as ye suppose, it doth not follow, but my Advice may be both Profitable and Rea∣sonable: A Mariner that hath suffered Ship-wrack, may be as good a Pilote in that same Channel where he lost his Ship, as another that has come that same Way, with a Prosperous Gale, and Full-Sea, sailing over the hide Rocks, and dangerous Banks. If you think my Ad∣vice Reasonable, take it Gratis, and welcome; If not, buy Experience at th Rate I have done.
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