ADVERTISEMENT. XXxi

It is proper, however, to explain, in this place, what might otherwise appear to be an error of the press. In the first Volume, there are repeated references, to the« fol- lowing minuTEs:” for it was my intention to have joined a sELEcTION of the MinurEs, &c. of AGRicULTURE, in the SouTHERN Counties(formerly published) with the established practice of the same DEPART- MENT; agreeably to the plan of publica- tion observed, in the Eastern, the Midland, and the more Western departments.

But attempting to make the intended se- lection, and finding so much less, than I expected, to reject, especially in the os- SERVATIONS(which, I think it right to say, form, in my own opinion, by far the most valuable part of what I have written, inas- much as they show the practitioner how to profit, in a summary yet scientific manner, by his own practice) I determined to assi-