YOUNG, Arthur.

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Rural Oeconomy: or, Essays on the Practical Parts of Husbandry. First edition of the agricultural reformer's second book, a series of essays on agriculture, together with his translation of Hirzel's work on farming."Arthur Young, like Jethro Tull, was a great agricultural reformer whose influence reached far beyond his own country. England, however, with its increased acreage of cultivated land resulting from the enclosure system, and the consequent rise of great landowners and farmers in the eighteenth century, especially welcomed innovations in agricultural methods. Arthur Young applied statistical methods to the study of agriculture, investigating both the statistics of production and the costs of this particular industry. He obtained his information from a series of extensive tours in England, Ireland and France, where he studied the state of agriculture at first hand. These journeys resulted in the publication of about two hundred and fifty books and pamphlets setting out his ideas and theories" (PMM)."Young's second book in 1770 was entitled Rural Oeconomy... Eleven essays comprised about two-thirds of the volume, with the remainder an English translation, presumably by Young, of a French translation of a famous little German book by Hans Casper Hirzel published at Berne in 1761. The 'Rural Socrates', the English title of the work, described the agriculture of a Swiss farmer popularly known as Kliogg, many of whose practices and principles resembled Young's" (Gazley, p.

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