PRÉFACE.

the country has been recently placed, in respect to its ÂAGR1- CULTURE, by the tyranny and injustice of a powerful ene- sf imperious manner, for a still of our best endeavours to pro- ended cultivation of the soîil, 71) BREAD CORN may be of its increased

my, calls upon us in the mo more ACTIVE EXERTION mote a better and more ext order that an adeguate supply of rdaised within ¿he Island for the support

and increasing population.

Tn this endeavour, the contents of the present volume, œill, we are persuaded, chew that we have not been inat- tentive or idle spectators; but that œlhile we have anxziously deplored the barren and shamefully unproductive state of

À our extensive wasres and commons, W@ have not neglected

to bring the necessìty of their amelioration and improve- of the cultivator, the economist and the

ment, to the view the utmost importance 10 the

public, as a measure of safety, happiness and prosperity of the nation. me time that the Conductor of the work feels

At the sa: the fullest confidence în his own res0urCés», he cannot büt call upon those able Correspondents who have hitherto contributed s0 largely to the utility and estäblishment of the undertakäng, to continue their valuable assistancé, as it is only by their means that it can be carried to that state of useful perj

objects demands:

«cction, œhich the importance of its