The Gentleman Farmer by Henry Home, Lord Kames - 9781108074377

The Gentleman FarmerBeing an Attempt to Improve Agriculture by Subjecting it to the Test of Rational Principles\nAuthor(s): Henry Home, Lord Kames\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108074377, 978-1108074377\nSynopsis\nHenry Home, Lord Kames [tel] gained recognition as an advocate at the Scottish bar, and subsequently as a judge whose writings on the philosophy, theory and practice of the law were hugely influential. However, he also took great interest in agriculture, and his wife's inheritance of a large estate in 1766 particularly focused his energies. The first edition of this work, published in 1776, rapidly became popular: reissued here is the enlarged second edition of 1779. Kames makes it clear that 'there never was in Scotland a period more favourable to agriculture than the present'. He begins with necessary equipment and moves on to describe the preparation of the ground, and the appr.