W PREFACE. 



may either agree to or reject according to our private* 



notions." 



The reader will find in these pages the results of prac- 

 tice for the most part, and not the deductions of theory- 

 forming a manual of the work of the farm, on nearly all 

 the topics which occupy the farmer's attention. 



The arrangement of the volume is mamly the same ai* 

 that adopted in the last Report, while the series of mete- 

 orological observations in the Appendix, and a complete 

 index at the end, will greatly increase the value of the 

 work. 



Tlie financial returns of the societies will be found in 

 the Appendix to the Fourth Ainmal Keport of the Secre- 

 tary of the Board of Agriculture. - c. l, f. 



Boston, April, 1857. 



