John Reynolds (agriculturist)

John Reynolds of Dane Court, Adisham, Kent (1703–1779) was an early agricultural pioneer.

The son of Thomas Reynolds, a Kent Yeoman, John Reynolds enlarged the family farm to 520 acres (210 ha)^[1] and developed agricultural methods which came to the attention of the Royal Society of Arts, which presented him with a silver cup for his efforts to modernise agricultural methods.

These methods included the use of kohlrabi (then known as turnip-rooted cabbage) as a winter feed-stuff for livestock, which he introduced from the Netherlands in 1767,^[2] a method of growing melons using manure hot-beds and various other innovations mentioned in Dossie's Memoires of Agriculture and Arthur Young's Agricultural Calendar. He also introduced the Swedish turnip, or swede, (Rutabaga) into England.^[3]^{[circular reference]}

A tribute to Reynolds in Adisham's parish church was erected after his death. Historian , who lived in his house two centuries after Reynolds, drew modern attention to his improvement efforts.

References[]

^ Armstrong, Alan (1995). The Economy of Kent, 1640-1914. Boydell Press. p. 68. ISBN 9780851155821.
^ Finberg, H. P. R. (1989). The Agrarian History of England and Wales: 1750-1850. Cambridge University Press. p. 299. ISBN 9780521227261.
^ Adisham

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[1] Armstrong, Alan (1995). The Economy of Kent, 1640-1914. Boydell Press. p. 68. ISBN 9780851155821.

[2] Finberg, H. P. R. (1989). The Agrarian History of England and Wales: 1750-1850. Cambridge University Press. p. 299. ISBN 9780521227261.

[3] Adisham

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