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The ''General View'' series of county surveys was an initiative of the
The ''General View'' series of county surveys was an initiative of the Board of Agriculture
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) was a United Kingdom government department created by the Board of Agriculture Act 1889 ( 52 & 53 Vict. c. 30) and at that time called the Board of Agriculture, and then from 1903 the Boar ...
of Great Britain, of the early 1790s. Many of these works had second editions in the 1810s.
The Board, set up by Sir John Sinclair
Colonel Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet, (10 May 1754 – 21 December 1835), was a British politician, military officer and writer who was one of the first people to use the word "statistics" in the English language in his pioneering work, ...
, was generally a proponent of enclosure
Enclosure or inclosure is a term, used in English landownership, that refers to the appropriation of "waste" or "common land", enclosing it, and by doing so depriving commoners of their traditional rights of access and usage. Agreements to enc ...
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England
Ireland
Scotland
Wales
Other
General
William Marshall, who had written the Central Highlands survey, was a rival of Arthur Young, and at odds with him over the surveys. He wrote at length about the reports in 1808 to 1817, producing a five-volume ''Review'', generally critical of the reports. William Lester's ''History of British Implements and Machinery applicable to Agriculture'' (1811) drew heavily on extracts from the surveys, where those coveredagricultural implement
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food ...
s. His introduction commented on the difficulty in referring farmers directly to the reports.
Sir John Sinclair wrote a number of related works:
*''General View of the Agriculture of the Northern Counties and Islands of Scotland'' (1795)
*''Account of the Origin of the Board of Agriculture and its Progress for Three Years after its Establishment'' (1796)
*''General Report of the Agricultural State and Political State of Scotland'' (1814)
*''Hints Regarding the Agricultural State of the Netherlands, Compared with that of Great Britain'' (1815)
Sources
*http://www.bahs.org.uk/LIBRALall.htmlNotes
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