11 DEDICATION. 



which you have favoured me, to dedicate them 

 to you. 



If I were to allow myself to indulge in the 

 expression of feelings, which a recollection of my 

 long connection with your Estates might prompt, 

 I should risk your displeasure, for J well know, 

 how distasteful to you would he the language of 

 adulation ; I shall therefore only add, that it gives 

 me pleasure to dedicate my Book to you, hecause, 

 from long experience, I know you to he the zeal- 

 ous patron of improvement in every department 

 of rural economy, and hecause you are practically 

 and intimately acquainted with the subject on 

 which I have written. 



Encouraging as it would he to me if it were 

 so, I do not expect that you will concur with me 

 in ALL the views to which I have given expres- 

 sion : nevertheless, I trust I may be allowed 



