1811 A Treatise on Origin & Cultivation of Moss-Earth into Manure / Farming

A Treatise on the Origin Qualities and Cultivation of Moss Earth with Directions for Converting it Into Manure;

By William Aiton

Printed by Printed by Wilson & Paul, Air (Ayr), 1811. First Edition. 8vo, quarter leather binding with marble boards, plain endpapers, 357 pages plus 1 page of errata.

William Aiton (1760-1848), sheriff-substitute of the county of Lanark, and, in his day, a widely known authority on all matters bearing on Scottish husbandry. Born at Silerwood, Kilmarnock, a neighborhood which he left in 1785, to go to Strathaven, Lanarkshire where he practiced for many years as a law agent. . At no period did his income exceed a hundred a year, yet with a family of twelve, he educated four sons for liberal professions, often sending them his last guinea when they were students at College.

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