EARLY AGRICULTURAL INSTRUCTION
In 1583 there was published by an anonymous writer in Britain a “broatjeide,” presumably what we would now call an omnibus, on agriculture. One chapter opens thus: “Herein is taught even for the capacity of the meanest, how to drain nioores, and all other wet grounds or bogges, and lay them dry for ever.”
A like book was published in France in 1600, entitled “'rhe Theatre of Agri; culture,” by Oliver de Serres, the Lord of Predel, in ‘ Languedoc. In 1616 a ponderous Lome of 700 pages was published in Britain entitled “Maison Rustique, or The Country Farme.’’ This embodied information from Italy, France and Spain. Before this period there had been almost an entire lack of agricultural works for nearly .1000 years, since the days ot the Roman Empire.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 94, 14 January 1939, Page 4 (Supplement)
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133EARLY AGRICULTURAL INSTRUCTION Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 94, 14 January 1939, Page 4 (Supplement)
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