Download or read book Address of Jonathan Allen, Esq. President of the Berkshire Agricultural Society (Classic Reprint) written by Jonathan Allen and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Address of Jonathan Allen, Esq. President of the Berkshire Agricultural Society Having been honoured with the appointment to preside over this society for the year past, I feel it my duty to express a just sense of that honour; and in conformity to former usage, that the President should address you, although I feel a conviction of my inability to communicate to you any thing calculated to awaken interest, yet I will not shrink from the duty, and will proceed without any pretensions to eloquence, oratory, or science in the art of Agriculture; but it would give me much pleasure if I could say any thing, that would gratify your curiosity, or give solace to the mind of such of you as feel a great anxiety for the prosperity of the society. It seems to be a fundamental principle laid down by most writers upon the subject of agriculture, that no more land should be cultivated than can be thoroughly and well done. Experience has proved that this principle is correct, in the application to tillage particularly. - For it is believed that every acre of feasible land, highly cultivated, will afford subsistence for a man, or more, and therefore a field of ten acres, properly divided and properly cultivated, will afford subsistence of bread, meats, and the different kinds of vegetables for a family of ten persons. Of this fact I have no doubt; but it would require all the labour of that portion of ordinary families of ten, who are capacitated to labour, could bestow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.