1822 used about a dozen citations from that work. In the preface of the first edition of The Encyclopedia of Agriculture, John Claudius Loudon (1825) ranked The Complete Farmer among the foremost publications on rural matters of the early 19th century. According to Loudon: The subject of Agriculture admits of two grand divisions; the improvement and general management of landed property, which may be termed Territorial Economy; and the cultivation and treatment of its more useful animal and vegetable productions, which is called Husbandry, or Agriculture in a more limited sense of the term." The Complete Farmer embraced both of these departments. Loudon describes this work as "copious to an excess, containing an immense mass of matter, new and old, good and bad." He is however clear in his judgement "As a dictionary of Husbandry, it was the best of its kind at the time of its publication: but the rapid progress of Agriculture since its date, renders it at the present time quite an obsolete work." References Attribution This article incorporates public domain material from various books and/or websites/ External links The complete farmer: or, a general dictionary of husbandry, 2nd edition (1767) at Google Books. The complete farmer: or, a general dictionary of husbandry, 3rd edition (1777) at Google Books; 1777 edition at ETH Bibliothek. The complete farmer: or, a general dictionary of husbandry, 4th edition (1793) at Google Books. The complete farmer: or, a general dictionary of husbandry, Volume 1, 5th edition (1807) at Google Books. The complete farmer: or, a general dictionary of husbandry, Volume 2, 5th edition (1807) at Google Books. 1756 books English-language encyclopedias Royal Society of Arts British encyclopedias Agriculture in England 18th-century encyclopedias Specialized encyclopedias