Excerpt from Rudimentary Treatise on Agricultural Engineering, Vol. 1

The critical position in which the Agriculturists of this country are now placed, with prices so low as to yield them no return for their year of labour, is surely a time when it is especially necessary to give the most attentive consideration to any matter that may tend to preserve to the landlord the present value of his property, and to the tenant farmer his position in life, and the capital he has embarked in agricultural operations. Although the farmers have been in many cases most unjustly condemned by their political opponents for the manner in which they carry on their business, yet there is one point upon which they are particularly open to censure, and that is, the generally miserable state of the premises and buildings that form their steading.

That they are nearly always antiquated and unfit for the purpose, is a fact that no farmer will deny, and the object the author has in this little book, is to supply him with such necessary data that their reconstruction may be upon the most approved principles. The author having had considerable experience in the erection of agricultural buildings and machinery, and having visited most parts of England, and much of the Continent, with a view to make himself thoroughly acquainted with all that is new and good upon the subject will endeavour to place before the reader, in the most concise form, the result of his own experience and investigations.

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