as defined by some, includes not husbandry only agriculture, but several other branches connected with it, such as the rearing of cattle, the management of the dairy, making butter and cheese, raising flax, timber, &c. See Agriculture.

Virgilian HUSBANDRY, a term used by authors to express that sort of husbandry, the precepts of which are so beautifully delivered in Virgil's Georgics. The husbandry in England is Virgilian in general, as is seen by the method of paring and burning the surface, of raftering or cross-ploughing, and of the care in destroying weeds, upon the same principle, and by much the same means. In those parts of England along the southern coast, where the Romans principally inhabited, not only the practice, but the expressions, are in many respects the same with those of the ancient Romans, many of the terms used by the ploughmen being of Latin origin, and the same with those used by those people on the like occasions. And on a strict observation, more of Virgil's husbandry is at this time practised in England than in Italy itself. This change in the Italian husbandry is, however, much more to the credit of that people, than the retaining the Virgilian scheme is to ours.

Tull, who has established a new method of husbandry, observes, that it is upon the whole so contradictory to this old plan, that it may be called the anti-Virgilian husbandry; and adds that no practice can be worse than the Virgilian.