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they depend; and in this way afford a more connected and systematic view of the various particulars that interest the cultivators of the ground; whether in the nature of imple- ments, the ceconomy and convenience of buildings and roads, or in the raising of different kinds of field crops, the cutting and feeding down meadow and pasture lands, and the management of various sorts of live stock. By such means, it is hoped, the knowledge of the principles of agricultural science may be more readily acquired and extended, and the utility and importance of different prac- tices and discoveries be more fully appreciated and under-

stood.

The undertaking has been attended with considerable difficulty, in many instances, from the insufficiency and incompleteness of experiments and the involved state of the facts, which may afford some apology for the imperfections that may be discovered in the execution; but the author has in all cases endeavoured to rest the processes and methods of management which he has had occasion to recommend, on those practical foundations which in his judgment ap- peared the most certain and correct. How far he may have succeeded in performing the work in an useful manner, he

leaves to the candour of those who are best acquainted with