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PREFATORVY REMARk.

TI daily blessings received by mankind from the hand of Agriculture, and the increased comfort and wealth which every nation enjoys where husbandry is improved, are in themselves reasons, sufficiently urgent, to engage the attention of every person, who has the power of promoting its extension. But when we farther consider, that it feeds all other sciences and arts; that it

is the source of almost all our treasures; that it employs the

best sinews of our country(a hardy peasantry); that every im- provement in it, is also a considerable advantage to the nation;

and that it is a constant incentive to industry, by its grateful

returns: it is almost needless to remark, how very important and necessary, the protection, and encouragement, of all measures are, that tend to increase this essential support, to man's existence and comfort.

The recent establishment of a Board of Agriculture, must therefore give the highest satisfaction to every well disposed and liberal mind: Formed by the legislature on the generous basis of doing good to the community, and composed of men of emi- nent character, peculiarly attached to the laudable promotion of rural improvement; it may be reasonably presaged, that under the auspices of a MoxARcCH, and of a PAakRLIAMENT, Who have so fully manifested their regard to agriculture, the time is not far distant, when provincial prejudice, the check to all improvement, will yield to conviction, and new modes of correction will be adopted, as soon as they are pointed out, upon sound and rational principles. It may then also be expected that Great Britain will explode all bad husbandry, carried on upon erroneous opinions, and spread the better systems, now only practised in local spots,