The Shepherd's Guide: Being a Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Sheep, Their Causes, and the Best Means of Preventing Them; With Observations on the Most Suitable Farm-Stocking for the Various Climates of This Country
The Shepherd's Guide: Being a Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Sheep, Their Causes, and the Best Means of Preventing Them; With Observations on the Most Suitable Farm-Stocking for the Various Climates of This Country
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1807 edition. Excerpt: ... AN ES.SAY On the utility of encouraging the system of SheepFarming in some districts of the Highlands, and Population in others. Addressed to the Honourable President and Members of the Highhind Society. MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, "As many of the letters which I wrote to you are rather of a light nature, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1807 edition. Excerpt: ... AN ES.SAY On the utility of encouraging the system of SheepFarming in some districts of the Highlands, and Population in others. Addressed to the Honourable President and Members of the Highhind Society. MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, "As many of the letters which I wrote to you are rather of a light nature, and the remarks on the farming of the Highlands scattered and interwoven through a great number of other subjects, trifling and whimsical of themselves, and calculated rather to afford amusement, than lead to any solid disquisition; I think it proper, in a supple .mentary essay, to take a retrospect of the subject in a general point of view. "And certainly this subject, which comprehends such an extent of valuable country, and such a number of valuable people, ought not to be treated Avitoh levity; but is in a higher degree worthy of investigation, than any other to which the tourist can direct his attention, or the theorist his scrutinies. It is a subject which, at this very time, forms the principal topic of conversation amongst thousands, and on which the whole Highlands is divided, one district against another, one family against another, and even individuals of a family against others of the same family, viz. What stock is most proper for the Highlands? It is a subject which may be entered into with warmth, but not with prejudice. Where the writer must produce a statement of facts, and convince by reason, not by assertion; and on which it is impossible to reason accurately without a personal acquaintance with the local situation of the different coun tries in the north and west of Scotland, with the manners and propensities of the inhabitants, and indeed with every branch of their rural economy. "To attain this knowledge, and to be...
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