PREFACE PAR? II 



159. The utility, which I thought would arise from the 

 hastening out of the First Part, in June last, previous to the time 

 for sowing Swedish Turnips, induced me to make an ugly breach 

 in the order of my little work ; and, as it generally happens, that 

 when disorder is once begun, it is very difficult to restore order ; 

 so, in this case, I have been exceedingly puzzled to give to the 

 matter of these two last Parts such an arrangement as should be 

 worthy of a work, which, whatever may be the character of its 

 execution, treats of subjects of great public interest. However, 

 with the help of the Index, which I shall subjoin to the Third 

 Part, and which will comprise a reference to the divers matters 

 in all the three parts, and in the making of which Index an 

 additional proof of the advantage of numbering the paragraphs 

 has appeared ; with the help of this Index the reader will, I 

 am in hopes, be enabled to overcome, without any very great 

 trouble, the inconveniences naturally arising from a want of a 

 perfectly good arrangement of the subjects of the work. 



1 60. 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 

 icgard to the procuring of manure by the burning, of earth into ashes. 



1 6 1. 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. HULME, to 

 gether with a view of the advantages and disadvantages of pre 

 ferring, as a place to farm in, those Countries to the Countries 

 bordering on the Atlantic ; in which view I shall include such 

 remarks as appear to me likely to be useful to those English 

 Farmers, who can no longer bear the lash of Boroughmongering 

 oppression and insolence. 



162. IVIultifariousness 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 relative to Swedish Turnips and Cabbages 

 will be very apt to be enfeebled in their effect by those relating 

 to manners, laws and religion. Matters 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 the American Farmer, but from 

 which he turns with feelings like those with which a losing trades 

 man turns from an examination of his books. But, attend to it he 

 must before it be long ; or, his fields, in the populous parts of this 

 Island at least, must lay waste, and his fuel must be brought him 

 from Virginia or from England. Sometime before March next 

 I shall publish an Essay on Fencing. The form shall correspond 

 with that of this work, in order that it may be bound up with it, 

 if that should be thought desirable. The other subject is that of 



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