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General View of the Agriculture of Somerset. The General View series of county surveys was an initiative of the Board of Agriculture of Great Britain, of the early 1790s. Many of these works had second editions in the 1810s. The Board, set up by Sir John Sinclair, was generally a proponent of enclosures. [1]
It also includes a chapter on political economy related to the narrow margin of British food supplies, in view of the outbreak of war with France in 1793, and mentions developments on the Somerset coalfield. [1] His General View of the Agriculture of the County of Somerset divided the county into three districts- north-east, middle and south-west.
Billy Ray Smith is an American politician from Kentucky who was the Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture from 1996 to 2004 and a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1982 to 1995. Smith was first elected to the house in 1981 after incumbent representative Buddy Adams retired. [ 1 ]
‘General View of the Agriculture of the county of Argyll,’ 1798, 8vo. 8. ‘An Affectionate Address to the Middling and Lower Classes on the present Alarming Crisis,’ Edinburgh, 1798, 12mo.
The Board of Agriculture published in 1794 an account of Vancouver's tour in Cambridgeshire, and in 1795 an account of a similar tour in Essex. He wrote two more reports for the Board's General View of Agriculture county surveys: on the county Devon, (1808, republished in 1813); and on Hampshire (1813).
In 1795, John Billingsley advocated enclosure and the digging of rhynes (a local name for drainage channels, pronounced "reens" in the east and rhyne to the west) between plots, [9] and wrote in his Agriculture of the County of Somerset that 4,400 acres (18 km 2) had been enclosed in the last 20 years in Wedmore and Meare, 350 acres (1.4 km 2 ...
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In the General View of Agriculture county surveys, Batchelor published General View of the Agriculture of the County of Bedford (1808). He also worked on Dorset, where his survey was edited and published by William Stevenson (1814). [1]