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3 4 , a THE FOLLOWING TERMS Being frequently used in a vague and indefinite manner, it will be of advantage to the reader to know beforehand the sense in which they are applied in this st work. Other terms of less frequent use, or of various meaning, are explained a in an alphabetical order in the General Index. ad- ly or.°...<...:° Agriculture is used in its most extensive sense In the third line of the title page, and % generally in the Historical part of the work(Part I.) as including territorial economy er and husbandry. In most parts of this work, for example, in the words of the title page,‘ animal and vegetable productions of Agriculture,’’ as synonymous with husbandry.

In several places as synonymous with aration, that is, the culture of arable lands, as he opposed to pasturage, or what may be called Agriculture proper. In every case the reader will be able to gather from the scope of the sentence or paragraph containing this term, in which of these three senses it is meant to be understood.

Territorial economy, what relates to the valuation, purchase, sale, exchange, arrange- the ment, improvement by roads, canals, drainage,&c., of territorial surface, including interposing waters, as rivers, lakes, and also mines and minerals._ Territorial improve-

uy z:== y ments are mostly effected by the proprietors of lands or their agents and stewards, and sof not to any great extent by renters of land, or farmers. Ors Husbandry, the culture of arable grass and woodlands, the management of live stock, ‘aCe the dairy, poultry,&c., and, in general, what constitutes the business of the head of a 1 family living by agricultural industry in the country.

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Rural economy, rural affairs, geoponics, agronomics, terms considered as synonymous Ver; with husbandry.

Farming, renting land and cultivating it, or employing it for the purposes of hus-

bandry. ich Farmer(from fermier, Fr.), farming agriculturist, farming cultivator, profes- Rad sional farmer, commercial farmer, rent-paying farmer,&¢.; a proprietor cultivating ec

his own estate, is not correctly speaking a farmer, to be such he must pay a rent. A r tO proprietor who cultivates his own soil may be a gentleman or yeoman agriculturist or ally husbandman, a proprietaire cultivateur, but not a farmer. ics Husbandman, one who farms generally; that is, who both produces corn and cattle, and a attends to the dairy, the poultry, the woodlands, and the orchard. A farmer may con- an’s fine himself to grazing, or to breeding or haymaking, or milking or raising green crops for the market,&c., but in none of these cases can he with propriety be called a husband- man. This term husbandman therefore is not exactly synonymous with farmer.

Grasses, all the natural order of Graminez, of Linnzus and Jussieu. L. Cereal grasses, those grown for bread corn.

Pasture grasses, those grown chiefly for pasturage.

Feniculous grasses, those grown chiefly for hay.

Herbage plants, clover and other plants cultivated chiefly for the herb, to be used either green or made into hay.

Foliage crops, plants cultivated for their leaves to be used green, and which will not make into hay, as the cabbage tribe.

Root crops, esculent plants cultivated for their tubers, bulbs, or other enlarged parts produced under or immediately on the ground, and chiefly connected with the root, as the potatoe, turnip, carrot,&c.

Roots, the fibres and other ramifications of a plant under ground, and by which it imbibes nourishment. Tubers, bulbs, and other fleshy protuberances under ground, are employed by nature for the purposes of propagation or continuation, and therefore

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