Rural improvements : or, essays on the most rational methods of improving estates; accommodated to the soil, climate, and circumstances of England: in which it is clearly demonstrated, that the landed estates of this Kingdom may with certainty, and at a very moderate expence, be increased to double their present value. The method of doing which is clearly pointed out and evinced from undeniable principles, deduced from a series of real practice and experience. Essay first; shewing the improvements that respect the occupier. Essay second; the improvements that respect the land-owner. The whole interspersed with a variety of interesting reflections and observations, on the poor, poor-laws, high prices of provisions, labour, decay of foreign trade, population, corn-trade, bounty on exportation; with rational and proper measures respecting the same. Also, remarks on Messrs. Harte, Tull, Miller, Chateauvieux, Compleat English Farmer, Young, Peters, Weston, &c. /

Jonathan A. Hill, bookseller, description: First ediiton of thie popular work which enjoyed a second edition in the same year. Wimpey (1739-1808), "was a protagonist of the new husbandry, but did not like using the horse hoe. He preferred to use his Rotherham plough for inter-row cultivation. A...

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