NOTICE. V 



method of feeding dairy cows, and Professor Way's analysis of 

 grasses exhibits more fully than any previous work their relative 

 advantages. 



A reference to the more important articles which have ai^peared 

 in the former volumes of the Transactions has long been called 

 fur. To answer this demand the index of the sixteen volumes 

 published are given in this volume ; and although not as perfect 

 as could have been desired, it will be found to record the most 

 valuable articles with the names of their authors, and we pre- 

 sume that our readers will be surprised as we have been, at the 

 number of articles of great value to the farmer, embodying 

 almost every practice needed by him in prosecuting his work. 

 Several of those who have furnished some of the best papers in 

 the Transactions have ceased from their labors, but their works 

 here, remain a record of their iaitlifulness, and of the inestima- 

 ble value of their labors to the cause to which while living they 

 so intelligently devoted themselves. 



To the gentlemen who have contributed to this volume we are 

 under great obligations. They will have their reward in the 

 assurance that their works will reach the minds of the most 

 intelligent agriculturists in our country and abroad, and the 

 intluence upon them will, it is hoped, conduce to more systematic 

 eftbrts to advance the cause to which their efforts have been 



'^'''''''"''^- B. P. JOHNSON. 



State Agricultural Rooms, Marchj 1857. 



