Rural improvements : or, essays on the most rational methods of improving estates; accomodated to the soil, climate, and circumstances of England: In which it is clearly demonstrated, that the Landed Estates of this Kingdom may with certainty, and at a very moderate Expence, be increased to double their present Value. The Method of doing which is clearly pointed out, and evinced from undeniable Principles, deduced from a Series of real Practice and Experience. Essay First; Shewing the Improvements that respect the Occupier. Essay Second; The Improvements that respect the Land-Owner. The whole interspersed with a Variety of interesting Reflections and Observations, on the Poor, Poor-Laws, high Prices of Provisions, Labour, decay of Foreign Trade, Population, Corn-Trade, Bounty on Exportation; with rational and proper Measures respecting the same. Also, Remarks On Messrs. Harte, Tull, Miller, Chateauvieux, Compleat English Farmer, Young, Peters, Weston, &c. By a land owner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wimpey, Joseph, 1739-1808.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculturists--Great Britain.

Agriculturists.

Landlord and tenant--Great Britain.

Landlord and tenant.

Agriculture--England--Early works to 1800.

Agriculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi,528,xv,[1]p. )

Other Title:

Rural improvements

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]

Notes:

A land owner = Joseph Wimpey.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T133887.

OCLC:

642383822