It appears this is a little earlier than the 19th century. The author of this passage is John Billingsley), writing in 1795. The whole pamphlet, "General View of the Agriculture of the County of Somers," is here. There are a lot of old books, by many different authors, with the title "General View of the Agriculture of the County of X," they seem to be reports for the predecessor of MAFF).

In spite of the ugly quotation, the wikipedia article makes him sound like basically a good person (but kind of a historical nobody).

Edit: I didn't get the links to webpages with parentheses in them working. Add a ')' at the end of the first and third.

Edit 2: Oops, Multiheaded gives two quotations in the two paragraphs. I only tracked down the first.