Present State Of Husbandry In Scotland. Extracted From Reports Made To The Commissioners Of The Annexed Estates, And Published By Their Authority.
Edinburgh: Printed for W Strahan, and T. Cadell, London, and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1778. 1st Edition. Full calf. 8º, 21cm.; 4 vols. (bound in 6): xxiv, 412pp; x, 493pp.; xxiv, 357pp; [388pp.]; xxxii, 390pp.; [118pp.]; Vols.I-II, full calf, Vols. III-VI, original publisher's boards with titles on spine in contemp. mss;. Very good. Item #101
Wight was regarded as a highly innovative and efficient tenant farmer on the Cockburn estate at Ormiston. At the instigation of Henry Home, Lord Kames, he was appointed in 1773 to survey the corn farms under the control of the commissioners to manage the annexed estates. Wight undertook two surveys of the estates in July and August 1773 and 1774. The commissioners were so pleased with the results that they subsequently engaged Wight on an annual basis to undertake general surveys of Scotland for the purpose of both recording and disseminating good farming practice. His findings were published by the commissioners as Present State of Husbandry in Scotland (1778–84). In nine years Wight covered more than 4000 miles, and produced agrarian reports on nearly the whole of Scotland (the exceptions are Shetland, Orkney, and Argyll). (ODNB).
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