PREFACE. 
IT is to be lamented that it falls to the lot of 
an individual to risque the publication of the fol- 
lowing sheets, in which the agricultural part of the 
community are more immediately, though not 
solely, interested. An ineffectual attempt has been 
made to establish a state society of agriculture, 
whose useful and agreeable employment it should 
be to invite and promulgate communications, sti- 
mulate experiments, and cherish and reward, with 
honourable testimonies at least, the ingenious and 
industrious cultivator. An application was made to 
a former legislature of the state, for an act of in- 
corporation of such a society, and a plan there- 
with suggested. But no steps have yet been taken 
in the business. It is to regret, and not to censure, 
that I mention the circumstance. It is difficult, 
if not impracticable, to produce conviction in the 
minds of the generality of farmers, that persons 
who have not been educated or manually employ- 
ed in farming, can give much useful information 
in, or effectual energies to, agriculture, And yet 
