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In the Press, and will soon be ready for Publication, BY

MESSRS. LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN,

ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF AGRICULTURE; Che Cheorp and Wractice

VALUATION, TRANSFER, IMPROVEMENT, AND MANAGEMENT

OF LANDED PROPERTY; AND THE CULTIVATION AND ECONOMY OF THE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE PRODUCTIONS OF AGRICULTURE, INCLUDING

* ALL THE LATEST IMPROVEMENTS; A GENERAL HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE IN ALL COUNTRIES;

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A Statistical Cie of its present State, WITH

SUGGESTIONS FOR ITS FUTURE PROGRESS IN THE BRITISH ISLES.

By J. C. LOUDON, F.L.S. H.S.,&c. AUTHOR OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GARDENING.

Illustrated with upwards of 600 Engravings on Wood, by Branston.

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"Twovan the term Encyclopedia applied to any single art may be sufficiently indicative of the comprehensive manner in which it is intended to treat of that art; yet it may not be improper to state the grounds on which this work lays claim to being the most complete body of Agriculture hitherto submitted to the public.

The subject of Agriculture admits of two grand divisions; the improvement and general management of landed property, which may be termed territorial economy; and the cultivation and treatment of its more useful animal and vegetable productions, which is properly husbandry or agriculture in a more limited sense. Numerous as have been the publications on rural matters during the last twenty years, there are but few of them whose titles might lead to a supposition that they embraced both departments. Of these few, the two principal may be cited: the“ Complete Farmer,” as the most volu- minous, and the“ Code of Agriculture,” as the most recent. The‘“ Complete Farmer, or Dictionary of Husbandry,” in two thick quarto volumes, with numerous plates, was published in 1807; it is copious to excess; was the best dictionary of husbandry at the time it was published, but is now obsolete, both as to its letter-press and engravings.

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