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Title: A Tour in Ireland
1776-1779

Author: Arthur Young

Editor: Henry Morley

Release Date: August 25, 2007 [eBook #22387]

Language: English

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A TOUR IN IRELAND.
1776-1779.

BY
ARTHUR YOUNG.

CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED:
_LONDON_, _PARIS_, _NEW YORK & MELBOURNE_.
1897.

INTRODUCTION.

Arthur Young was born in 1741, the son of a clergyman, at Bradfield, in
Suffolk. He was apprenticed to a merchant at Lynn, but his activity of
mind caused him to be busy over many questions of the day. He wrote when
he was seventeen a pamphlet on American politics, for which a publisher
paid him with ten pounds' worth of books. He started a periodical, which
ran to six numbers. He wrote novels. When he was twenty-eight years old
his father died, and, being free to take his own course in life, he would
have entered the army if his mother had not opposed. He settled down,
therefore, to farming, and applied to farming all his zealous energy for
reform, and all the labours of his busy pen. In 1768, a year before his
father's death, he had published "A Six Weeks' Tour through the Southern
Counties of England and Wales," which found many readers.

Between 1768 and 1771 Arthur Young produced also "The Farmer's Letters to
the People of England, containing the Sentiments of a Practical
Husbandman on the present State of Husbandry." In 1770 he published, in
two thick quartos, "A Course of Experimental Agriculture, containing an
exact Register of the Business transacted during Five Years on near 300
Acres of various Soils;" also in the same year appeared "Rural Economy;
or, Essays on the Practical Part of Husbandry;" also in the same year
"The Farmer's Guide in Hiring and Stocking Farms," in two volumes, with
plans. Also in the same year appeared his "Farmer's