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Excerpt from American Husbandry, Vol. 2 of 2: Being a Series of Essays on Agriculture The merit of introducing clover into use as a grass in England belongs to Walter Bligh, who published in 1652 his lmprover Improved, a work full of valuable facts, and containing many things worthy of notice at the present day. Soon after this, Wes ton gave agriculture the most decided impulse it had received for a long time, by publishing an account of the field-cultivation of the turnip in Flanders, where this root had received great attention for some years. Valuable as the culture has proved to England, near ly doubling her agricultural products within the last sixty years, turnips were obliged to encounter the most absurd prejudices, and it was a long time be fore they succeeded ih becoming an object of gener al favour. To the introduction of clover and turnips, more, perhaps, than to any other single cause, may be attributed the rapid advancement of agriculture in that kingdom. Their use renders a rotation of crops imperative, and this both science and experi ence unite in asserting to be the only true mode of making cultivation profitable, and, at the same time, constantly improve the soil. 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.

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