PREFACE. IX 



same crops are cultivated, the same species of 

 stock reared, where the soils bear a near re- 

 semblance, and the dissimilitude of climates is 

 not so great as to preclude a notion of their 

 distinct effects, it does not seem that the prac- 

 tice of the one may not properly enough be 

 estimated by the practice of the other. 



Such, in a great degree, are the circum- 

 stances which attend a comparison of the agri- 

 culture of the United States, with the agricul- 

 ture of Britain, and therefore the writer did 

 not apprehend that he was guilty of any ano- 

 maly, in an endeavour to measure the former 

 by the standards of the latter. 



If he had entertained any doubt on this 

 point, it would have been removed by his 

 having, since his observations were committed 

 to writing, had an opportunity of perusing an 

 ably conducted American periodical, The New 

 Genesee Farmer, in which he finds the most 

 intelligent agriculturists in the States, hold 

 up British farming as a guide to their country- 

 men. 



Of this a sufficient example is furnished by 



