INTROD Us TION,

a THERE are at present a variety of obstacles to the iE advancement of Agriculture in these kingdoms, or to :

the produaion of the greatest quantity of food from the

| soil. Amongst this variety there are those of a nature | not to be removed but by the arm of Government; whilst | there are others which only require due exertions on the ||

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part of individuals.

The slow progress which Agriculture has hitherto made as a science, is to be ascribed to a want of education on the part of the cultivators of the soil, and the want of knowledge, in such Authors as have written on Agricul-

b ture, of the intimate conne@tion that subsists between this

science and that of Chemistry. Indeed there is no opera- tion or process, not merely mechanical, that does not de-

A pend