General View of the Agriculture of the County of Fife

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Excerpt from General View of the Agriculture of the County of Fife: With Observations on the Means of Its Improvement: Drawn Up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture Internal ImprovementDeeply impressed with these views, and feel-b ing a strong inclination to contribute, as far as lies in my power, to the success of so noble a design, I was induced, in compliance with the repeated solicitations of the late President of the Board of Agriculture, to undertake the task of drawing up the Agricultural Survey of the Coun ty of Fife. How far I have done justice to the subject must be left to others to determine. Notwithstanding my best endeavours to render the performance as correct as possible, I am sensible that it labours under many defects, and that it will have occasion frequently to appeal to the candour and indulgence of the public. Facts I have stated, partly from my own know ledge, butprincipally from the communications of others, whose acquaintance with the state of the county was more intimate and extensive than mine could possibly be. The observations in terspersed through the work, relative to differ ent points in husbandry, are partly the result of experience, and partly hazarded as matters of o pinion, which may be adopted or rejected as they shall appear to be well or ill founded. Many errors and mistakes will, I doubt not, oc cur to the intelligent reader, but I flatter my self, that these will be found to be neither so nu merous, nor of such magnitude, as materially to affect the conclusions aimed at, as the great and ultimate object of the present agricultural inves ttgations.(15)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.