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CULTIVATION OF POTATOES IN WASTE AND BOGGY LANDS - FIRST REPORT The first report from the select committee of the Honourable the House of Commons, appointed to take into consideration the means of promoting the cultivation and improvement of the waste, uninclosed, and unproductive lands of the kingdom: shewing, the circumstances which anciently occasioned Waste Lands:- The President's address on their cultivation and improvement; the advantages to be derived from their division:- successful experiments on the culture of potatoes in waste and boggy lands:- Extracts from the county agricultural reports, pointing out the great advantages of a General Inclosure Bill; the different rights of commons; laws for the division; and, the resolutions of the Board of Agriculture for their speedy inclosure and cultivation. London: John Stockdale, 1st January, 1796 8vo, 62pp, title page a little dust-marked, recently well bound in linen-backed marbled boards lettered. A good copy with the contemporary signature on title-page of Ralph Creyke. Kress B.3176. Ford & Ford p.43. Goldsmiths 16619. Not in Kress. Subjects addressed were the expense of passing bills of inclosure through the House, and difficulty of obtaining consent to them; the origin, extent, and value of common lands; and the benefits of dividing and inclosing them; and the inadequacy of the cultivation of corn to its consumption by the country. Two further reports were published by 1800. Price - £100 |
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