It dealt with almost every aspect of agriculture and stock raising, advocated horse-hoeing, had much to say in favor of turnips, lucerne, clover and such crops, and contained plates and descriptions of various plows, drills and other kinds of implements.

It also contained a detailed table of weather observations for a considerable time, which may have given Washington the idea of keeping his meteorological records.
Young's _Annals_ was an elaborate agricultural periodical not unlike in some respects publications of this sort to-day except for its lack of advertising.

It contains records of a great variety of experiments in both agriculture and stock raising, pictures and descriptions of plows, machines for rooting up trees, and other implements and machines, plans for the rotation of crops, and articles and essays by experimental farmers of the day.

Among its contributors were men of much eminence, and we come upon articles by Mr.William Pitt on storing turnips, Mr.
William Pitt on deep plowing; George III himself contributed under the pen name of "Ralph Robinson." The man who should follow its directions even to-day would not in most matters go far wrong.
As one looks over these publications he realizes that the scientific farmers of that day were discussing many problems and subjects that still interest those of the present.

The language is occasionally quaint, but the principles set down are less often wrong than might be supposed.