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Excerpt from European Agriculture and Rural Economy, Vol. 1: From Personal Observation The farmers in Scotland, certainly inferior to none in agri cultural enterprise, intelligence, and skill, and demonstrating this by a husbandry most exact and productive, have associated themselves together for the encouragement of the application of chemistry to the improvement of agriculture. Proprietors of land pay a yearly subscription of one pound or upwards to the association, and tenants ten shillings. This sum entitles each of them to two analyses a year at a certain fixed low rate. All above that number are charged half more. The analyst is required to give only such analysis as will answer the desired purpose. Agricultural societies, by a yearly payment of five pounds to the association, are entitled to one lecture from the agricultural professor; for ten pounds, to two lectures, and so on; and the travelling expenses of the lecturer are likewise to be paid by those who employ him. 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.