Excerpt from Journal of the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society, 1901-1902, Vol. 12 But, worst of all, the open-field system of cultivation, bou1 up as it was with the grazing of the tillage fields by stock durii the autumn of each year, made the cultivation of roots at clover impossible, and without these two types of crop a ration rotation was absolutely precluded. And not only was a common interest in arable land fatal agricultural progress, but the same held true in, regard to t common pasturage of live stock. The opportunities for t judicious mating and selection of animals - which, combin with a liberal diet, are the basis of improvement in live stock were altogether absent under a system of common grazir Disease, too, would necessarily be rife amongst flocks and her into which any member of a community had the right to tu animals of doubtful health, if not actually suffering from a speci ailment. So detrimental was the system to the interests stock-breeding that, as Sir John Sinclair, the first President the old Board of Agriculture, pointed out in 1795, it was font more profitable to hire enclosed land for the breeding of t' )etter classes of sheep than to turn them on to the commo for nothing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Excerpt from Journal of the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society, 1893-94, Vol. 4 "He that goes about to forward agricultural improvement must begin by finding out the true reasons of what is called routine, or the 'custom of the country.' It sometimes happens that these seasons are only accidental, and then you may dismiss them fearlessly; but often it turns out that every-day practice rests on a solid foundation of facts; and then if you make an onslaught on local prejudices, they will be sure to beat you. "The true course for the agricultural improver is, to take one step at a time, to gain a clear insight into facts by experience, not to try to go too fast, and to trust to the work of time. "If practice which sets up to do without theory is contemptible, theory without practice is foolhardy and perfectly useless." - From the Rural Economy of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by Leonce de Lavergne. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Excerpt from Journal of the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society, 1897-98, Vol. 8 The fact that tuberculosis is an infectious disease due to a specific cause is the real starting point for its suppression; for, if it were not an infectious but a hereditary disease, then our hopes of ultimate victory, considering how many of our cattle are affected, would be but small indeed, and the revelations of tuberculin, by far the most powerful diagnostic yet discovered, would only help to make the end seem farther off than ever. The old belief that tuberculosis is hereditary - in the sense of being handed on from sire or dam to progeny - is still held by some veterinarians and by a large proportion of our stock breeders and stock owners, but this belief has declined among medical men, and it will also undoubtedly decline among veterinarians and stock-owners. This old belief in heredity, modified to the extent that tubercular ancestors hand on to their descen dants a hereditary tendency to acquire the disease, is now more widely supported, and, later on in this article, it will be somewhat closely examined. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Excerpt from Journal of the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society, 1892-93, Vol. 3 The Council, in submitting their Annual Report, again con gratulate the members upon the continued prosperity of the Society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Excerpt from Journal of the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society, Vol. 6: 1895-96 XIII. Investigations into the Manufacture of Cider By F. J. Lloyd, f.i.c. XIV. The Society's Experiments on Corn By the Stewards of Experiments. XV. The Society's Experiments for the Improvement of Permanent Pastures, with Introduction By C. T. D. Acland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Excerpt from Journal of the Bath and West and Southern Countries Society, Vol. 13: 1902-1903; Work and Learn This feeling Of security had long taken possession Of our farmers and had bred in them a confidence in their methods, and in those of their fathers before them, which it would have taken an earthquake to shake, and it cannot be denied that they had a good show Of reason for such a state of self-satisfaction. For centuries previously British agriculture had been acknow ledged to be the best that the world could show, and its live stock was the envy Of all lands. N O wonder, then, that the long stretch of prosperity between the forties and the eighties should have produced a thick-skinned conservatism with respect to ancient methods, which it would take many lean years of adversity to penetrate. The great depression found the land of this country mostly in the hands Of those who, though keen business men in their way, were obstinately wedded to their own systems Of farming, both as to the choice and rotation of crops and the management Of their stock. For years they went on growing wheat just the same when the price was 283. Per quarter as they did when it was and breeding just the same number and class of cattle, sheep, and horses, fully persuaded that the good Old easy times would come back again, and that there was no occasion to adopt new-fangled ways. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.