PREEACE.

Tax first Volume of the New Series of our Rural La- bours, having been brought to a conclusion, we may, per=- haps, without the charge of vanity or affectation, be per= mitted to hope that our numerous intelligent readers, will not find any deviation from the general plan that has been hitherto adopted, in conducting the work, or perceive any diminution in the value or practical utility of the materi- als with which we have been enabled to provide it. They æœill, we are willing to flatter ourselves, discover da conti- nuance of the same energy, the same disregard of toil and expence, and the same anxiety to render the undertaking practically useful and interesting, to the farmer and the country; and at the same time a strenuous endeavour to bring the great business of husbandry from the state of a rude conjectural art, to that of a perspicuous practical Science.

In the accomplishment of these and other objects,(whick the nature of the plan obviously comprehends) the recep- tion the work has met with, and the honour conferred upon it by the patronage and support of 80 many of the first and most enlightened cultivators; induce us to believe that our claims are not less solid or legitimate, than those of any similar publication in this, or any other country.

But that œhile thus flattered by an almost unexampled attention, we do not forget what we owe to the public; dut feel that it is only by the same unremitting exertion, and regard to usefulness of communication, that we can be en-

titled to a continuance of ils favour.

However independent of these considerations, great as {hey must be allowed to be, the peculiar sìituation îæ% which