A Pilgrimage of British Farming, 1910-1912 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Pilgrimage of British Farming, 1910-1912The journeys herein recorded were undertaken with the view of learning something of the diversity of British farming, and of the manner in which its practices have been adapted to meet the variations of soil and climate which occur in these Islands. As a scientific man dealing with agriculture I found myself not infrequently called upon for advice which demanded a knowledge of local conditions and methods of farming about which I could find very little informa tion in the text-books. So with Professor T. B. Wood of Cambridge, and Mr. E. S. Beaven of Warminster, a farming tour was planned and begun in 1910, though it eventually took three summers to carry it through to completion. We were helped with numerous introductions, and were received everywhere with such a measure of hospitality and willingness to provide information that we were able to form a pretty definite Opinion on the character of the farming of the district we were passing through in spite of the ¿ying character of our visits. Mistakes and omissions there must be in my account, but I am inclined to think they are less due'to the hasty nature of the journey than to the fact that no man can get up a case without falling into errors both in his material and in the interpretation he gives to it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.