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the power of accumulating fortunes, such as manufacturers and com-

mercial men frequently acquire.

As much of the value of a work of this kind will depend on the knowledge it conveys of the modern improvements in implements and buildings, particular attention has been paid to these subjects. Three-

: fourths of the implements and edifices of which engravings are given

J in Dr. Dickson’s Practical Agriculture, and. the Complete Farmer,

: may be considered as obsolete, or greatly altered by subsequent im-

J provements. Many of these improvements have not found their way

‘ into any books, and for them we have had recourse to the originals,

n, and to the most eminent Agricultural mechanics and manufacturers

ra of implements: Our thanks in this respect are particularly due

he to the proprietors of Weir’s Agricultural Repository, Oxford-Street, iY London, for permitting us to take sketches from their extensive collec-

By tion, and more particularly of those implements and machines which

ily the late Mr. Weir invented or greatly improved. Our best thanks are

ue also due to Mr. Morton, Leith-walk, Edinburgh, who is equally emment ter as an Agricultural mechanist in Scotland.‘There is no implement or

Ae machine mentioned in this work which will not be found on sale, or may not be made to order in the establishments alluded to, in the best manner, and at an equitable charge.

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ing For important assistance in the Veterinary part of this work, our best

5 Ol thanks are due to an eminent professor. Through the kind assistance of

are this gentleman we have been enabled to bring together a body of

that popular information on the anatomy, physiology, pathology, breed- ites. ing, rearing, and general treatment of the horse, the ox, the sheep, and free other domestic animals, even to dogs and poultry, as we can safely sses assert is not to be found in any other Agricultural publication.

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hire, It remains only to mention as a key to this work, that such technical r the terms as are used in a more definite sense than usual, are explained at rons, the end of this preface; such as are not common in general language, r te- in the index; and the abridged titles of books, or of proper names, are iliffs, there also given at length. The systematic nomenclature of plants NCE; adopted, is that of our Encyclopedia of Plants and Hortus Britannicus, lvan- now in great part through the press, with some exceptions which are vf the noted where they occur. In the specific names of animals, we have nting followed Turton’s edition of the Systema Nature of Linneeus: such g the chemical, mineralogical, and geological terms as occur, are those used ying by Sir H. Davy in his Agricultural Chemistry, and by Professor their 3rande in his Geology: and the weights and measures are always yliar after the standard of England, unless otherwise expressed. More .. the accuracy and consistency, it is hoped, has been attained in these par- ession ticulars, than is usual in even the best Agricultural works; the dry rot an of is not here described as“ a plant with leaves like the misletoe,” as in

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