Vlll PREFACE. 



mation will see how deeply indebted I am to them, and to other 

 good friends, who have placed their experience and great know- 

 ledge at the public service. 



To them, and to all who have assisted me, and to some who 

 have allowed what began as agricultural communication to ripen 

 into valuable friendship. I offer my grateful thanks and my deep 

 appreciation of their goodness, and I trust they will believe that 

 if, as I well know, much of my work has not been as well done 

 as it would have been in better qualified hands, at least I have 

 earnestly tried to do my very best. 



ELEANOR A. ORMEROD, LL.D. 



ToRRiNGTON HousE, St. Albans : 

 March, 1901. 



