The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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IMPROVEMENTS IN TILLAGE 547 1 18 place, has been recorded by Arthur Young, who has left us =. a an inimitable picture of rural England, as he knew it during this period of transition. He was a man of very varied tastes ind , and interests, who had engaged in farming on a small scale. Young, His observations, when making a business journey into Wales through the south of England, excited so much interest among agriculturists that he planned a northern tour, with the express object of gathering information on the state of rural England; he took considerable pains to render his enquiry as complete as possible. He advertised in the newspapers which circulated within the area of his projected tour, and some of his correspondents were able to supply him with accurate statistical information; in other cases, he had to rely on what he could gather in conversation with illiterate farmers, who were suspicious of his motives for prying into their affairs. “My business was so very un- usual that some art was requisite to gain intelligence from many farmers, etc, who were startled at the first attack. I found that even a profusion of expense was often necessary to gain the ends I had in view: I was forced to make more than one honest farmer half-drunk, before I could get sober, unprejudiced intelligence.” The contrast between his own habits of accurate observation and the slovenliness of many of the farmers, is very striking. He asserts that he had who tas ” the qualifications for his work which came from practical observer acquaintance with agriculture; but he adds, “ what is of much more consequence towards gaining real experience, I have always kept, from the first day I began, a minute register of my business; insomuch that upon my Suffolk farm, I minuted above three thousand experiments; in every article of culture, expenses, and produce, including, among a great variety of other articles, an accurate comparison of the old and new husbandry, in the production of most vegetables. But in this, I would by no means be thought to arrogate any other than that plodding merit of being industrious and accurate to which any one of the most common genius can attain, if he thinks proper to take the trouble” His book abounds with figures in which he was at pains to reduce L Northern Tour, 1. xiii. 2 75. 1. ix. 35—2

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