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PREFACE, 



THE only difagreeable circumftance 

 which the Author experienced ia 

 drawing up the following Propofal, was the 

 neceflity he found himfelf under of enlarging 

 on the prejudices and untraftablenefs of 

 illiterate Farmers and their fervants. 



Cenfure can be no pleafmg talk, except to 

 thofe who deferve the fevereft cenfure them- 

 felves, — the proud, the envious, and the 

 malicious. 



But the Author's intention is to raife the 

 humble fpirit of Agriculture, and to con- 

 vince thofe who are praftically employed in 



it; 



