PREFACE.

[N this Volume, it will be seen, that we have put in exec zion a plan lich we have had some time in contemplationg that of confining ourselves to one subject, and to a subject which is surely worthy of a distinct and appropriate publi cation. Our Magazine will in future be restricted to the admission of such matter as is purely Agricultural. dnd in the adoption of this plan, we are very happy to find that we have not only consulted the requests of some of our Cor=- respondents and of our own judgment, but the pleasure of most of our readers, and our own interest likewise. We were apprehensive that the execution of this design might be attended with the loss of all our commercial readers; but this has not been the result, for the number of our read- ers is increased instead of sufering dinänution. A per- severance, therefore, in a plan which is evidently agree- able to the taste of those whom it is our duty adove all things to strive to please, may be expected by them, and æith such exertions as may merit a continuance of their approbation.

Our ezertions, however, will be of little avail if they are not aided by the attentive and kind communications of those who wish well to the cause-

The contents of this Volume will be found not only in teresting, but very important to every husbandman who zishes to advance either in science, or practice.

The turnip culture, which is the ground work of the agri- culture of many districts, has received peculiar attention in this Volume. Stock, particularly sheep, has as usual been very judiciously brought before us, by several skilful breeders, both in their long and short, coarse and fures attire. And the quality of South Down mutton has been discussed, particularly by Df: Wilkinson, in a way that demands admiration. The Drill-system and Irrigation have here received much illucidation, and likewise the properties of the Dairy,