The Code Of Agriculture: Including Observations On Gardens, Orchards, Woods, And Plantations - Softcover

John Sinclair

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1318570530 ISBN 13: 9781318570539

Publisher: HardPress, 2019

Synopsis

The Code Of Agriculture: Including Observations On Gardens, Orchards, Woods, And Plantations by John Sinclair. This early 19th-century British policy-focused treatise argues that modernization of agriculture is essential to national independence and wealth. It proposes a coordinated national program to advance farming through diffusion of knowledge, educational institutions, veterinary science, protected domestic production, and strategic public investments. Its experimental and educational pillars include government-funded experimental farms, university agricultural professorships, and expanded veterinary knowledge to safeguard stock. On policy, Sinclair advocates a preferential home market for domestic produce with protective duties on foreign goods and a plan to liberalize exports when domestic surpluses exist, framing these measures as famine prevention and national wealth drivers. It supports exporting surplus when home demand is met and outlines land-use reforms, waste-land reclamation, and infrastructure investments (roads, canals, harbours, railways) to magnify productivity and knit the country into a single economy. It cites Frederick the Great, Bishop Watson, and Dutch practices to illustrate benefits of public investment and knowledge sharing. Concluding, Sinclair (1817) calls for effectual government steps to encourage cultivation and improvement, not merely to avert scarcity but to secure long-term welfare. The appendices offer practical guidance (leases, watering ponds, manures, fallows, hay-making, salt uses, drill-barrows, breeding) and instrument-level descriptions.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1318570530
• ISBN 13: 9781318570539
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 462