Plan of an Agricultural Society and Experimental Farm in Northumberland

Plan of an Agricultural Society and Experimental Farm in Northumberland

Pawson, Cecil H.

Agricultural History Review, Volume 8 part 1 (1960)

Abstract

The title is taken from a printed document in the writer’s possession which covers eight large pages and is dated 1797 . The document was prepared to provide “Hints for the consideration of the Committee appointed to prepare and digest” the plan as indicated. It would seem that after full consideration the time was not considered ripe for the project, for it was not until 1836 that the Northumberland Agricultural Society– which still continues–was formed, and Cockle Park, the world-famed experimental station, was not established until 1896. The seed for both these developments was surely contained in this earlier proposal.

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