John Sinclair - The Code of Agriculture - 1817

First Edition Founder of the Board of Agriculture London : For Sherwood, Neely and Jones, et al. 1817 First Edition8vo, viii, 492, 96 pp, eng. portrait and 10 eng. plates, cont. paper bds, slight wear. Sinclair was the founder and first president of the Board of Agriculture, and introduced systematic reports on agriculture county by county. He initiated sheep-shearing, improved methods of tillage, and new breeds of live stock in Scotland.