PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS.

IN drawing up this Report, according to the plan laid down by the Board of Agriculture, we have endeavoured 10 be as conciſe as poſible, except in thoſe articles which are in a great meaſure peculiar to this diſtri, fome of which, we have reaſon to think, may be adopted with advantage in others.

It is ſcarcely poſſible, in an undertaking of this kind, to deſcribe all the minutiæ of prattice, or to notice every local improvement: but 20e hope that the mojè prominent features of the Agriculture of Northun- berland, as exiſting in 1795, will be found faith fully recorded in the following ſheets.

As weights and meaſures vary in different dif- triclè, we think it right to apprize our readers

that, in the following Reports of Northumberland and Cumberland,

An Acre is the ſtatute Acre of 4840 ſquare yards.

4A Buſhel= 8 gallons Winchefter. A Rood= 7 yards in length.

4 Fother= a two horſe cart-load of lime, dung,&c.

A Stone of Wool= 241b. Avairdupoiſe. A Stone ef every other article= 14/0. ditto,

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