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To Me R E A D E R.

THE following valuable paper, reſpecting the preſent ſtate of huſbandry in the county of Huntingdon, and the means of its improvement, was drawn up at the deſire of his Grace the Duke of Buccleugh, a member of the Board of Agriculture, who requeſted Mr. Maxwell to lay before the Board his ſenti- ments on bthe huſbandry of the different counties in his neigh- bourhood. It is now printed, in addition to Mr. Stoné's Obſfer- vations on the ſame ſubject, for the purpoſe of its being circu- lated there, that every perſon, intereſted in the welfare of that county, may have it in his power fully and deliberately to con-— ſider, the obliging communications of both theſe gentlemen. It is therefore requeſted, that any remark, or additional obſer- vation, which may occur to the reader, on the peruſal of the following ſheets, may be tranſmitted to the Board of Agricul- ture, at its office in London, by whom the ſame fhall be pro- perly attended to; and, when the returns are completed, an account will be drawn up, of the ſtate of agriculture in Hunt- ingdonfhire, from the information which the Board will thus have accumulated, which, it is believed, will be found, greatly ſuperior, to any thing of the kind, ever yet made public.

The Board intends to follow the fame plan, in regard to all the other counties in the united kingdom; and, it is hardly necefſary to add, will be happy to give every afſiſtance in its Power, to any perſon, who may be deſitous of improving his

breed of cattle, ſheep,&c. or of trying any uſeful experiment in huſbandry.

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