WALKS AND TALKS
OF AN
AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND.
IN THE YEARS 1850–51.
PART II.
NEW YORK:
GEORGE P. PUTNAM & CO., 10 PARK PLACE.
M.DCCC.LII.
A traveling narrator describes pedestrian tours through rural England, combining vivid scene-setting of villages, farms, inns, churches, and river scenery with practical agricultural discussion. Topics include orchard care, drainage, roofing and stock, and fruit and soil management, alongside portraits of local customs, market shows, angling, and small-town hospitality. Observations on social conditions—labourers’ diets and education, prisons and poor-houses—and encounters with country characters lead into reflections on policy and moral questions such as trade and punishment, producing a miscellany that mixes hands-on farming advice with social and cultural commentary.
NEW YORK:
GEORGE P. PUTNAM & CO., 10 PARK PLACE.
M.DCCC.LII.