Select Transactions of the Honourable the Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland

Originally published in 1743. Questions of contemporary agriculture are considered and suggestions offered for possible solutions. Within this rigid-sounding structure are revealed the issues concerning the production of the food necessary for the survival of many of Scotland's population.

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Subtitled "Directing the Husbandry of the Different Soils for the most Profitable Purposes, and containing other Directions, Receipts, and Descriptions, Together with an Acccount of the Society's Endeavours to promote our manufactures" this "Gardeners' Question Time" of the day was central to the debate on agriculture at the beginning of the Eighteenth century