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naturally arising from the want of a perfectly good ar- 

 rangement of the subjects of the work. 



160. As the First Part closes with a promise to 

 communicate the result of my experiments of this 

 present year, I begin the Second Part with a fulfilment 

 of that promise, particularly with regard to the pro- 

 curing of manure by the burning of earth into ashes. 



161. I then proceed with the other matters named in 

 the title ; and the Third Part I shall make to consist 

 of an account of the Western Countries, furnished 

 in the Notes of Mr. Hul.me, together with -^ view 

 of the advantages and disadvantages of preferring, as 

 a place to farm in, those Countries to the Countries 

 bordering on the Atlantic ; in which view I shall in- 

 clude such remarks as appear to me likely to be useful 

 to those English Farmers, who can .no longer bear 

 the lash of Boroughraongering oppression and in- 

 solence. 



162. Multifariousness is a great fault in a written 

 work of any kind. I feel the consciousness of this 

 fault upon this occasion. The facts and opinions rela- 

 tive to Swedish Turnips and Cabbages will be very apt 

 to be enfeebled in their effect by those relating to man- 

 ners, laws and religion, IMatters so heterogeneous, 

 the one class treated of in the detail and the other in 

 the great, ought not to be squeezed together between 

 the boards of the same small volume. But, the fault is 

 committed and it is too late to repine. There are, 

 however, two subjects which I will treat of distinctly 

 hereafter. The first is that of Fencing, a subject 

 which presses itself upon the attention of tlie American 

 Farmer, but from which he turns with feelings like 



