PREFACE. 



Draining and Irrigation. 



Enclosing and Fencing. 



Redeeming Moor and Heath Land. 



Warping and Diking. 



The Crops grown the Grasses, the Cereal Grains, and Esculent Roots for 



the food of man or beast, and plants cultivated for clothing, building, and 



fuel. 

 Live Stock of every description Cattle, Horses, Sheep, Swine, Poultry ; 



and their different breeds and classes. 

 The breeding, rearing, and fattening of Live Stock. 

 The Dairy. 

 The cultivation of Silk. Flax, Hemp, Hops, Madder, Woad, Mustard, Chic- 



cory, Olives, Grapes, Figs ; the production of Wool and Honey ; of Wine, 



Oil, and Sugar; and various other crops and products which may come 



under my notice, and the production and growth of which may be possible 



and useful in any part of the United States. 

 Markets and Fairs ; Farming Accounts. 

 Agricultural Labor ; wages, condition, and service. 

 The Management of particular Farms arable, dairy, stock, and wool 



farms. 



Experimental Farms. 

 Veterinary Establishments. 

 Agricultural Societies, Museums, and Shows. 

 Agricultural Schools, Education, and Literature. 

 The Condition of the Rural Population. 

 Rural Life Morals, Manners, and Customs. 



These are among the topics which will claim my attention, and upon which, 

 in the course of my tour, I hope to collect and to communicate much useful in 

 formation. The field, I am aware, is a wide one, and no unaided individual 

 could, under any circumstances, give a full and entire view of these various 

 subjects, so as to satisfy every inquiry ; but I will do what I can to glean that 

 which is most valuable, and to direct to more full sources of information the 

 inquiries of those to whom further information may be desirable. 



I do not know in what place, rather than here, I can better acknowledge the 

 kindness and hospitality which I have received from gentlemen with whom it 

 has been my happiness to become acquainted ; add to this the utmost readiness 

 and courtesy in rendering every assistance in their power to my inquiries. The 

 kindness is sensibly appreciated ; and these acknoAvledgments are due to many 

 noblemen of the highest rank in the empire ; and to many gentlemen of more 

 humble condition, who, if they have not the nobility of rank, have even a higher 

 patent one without which the most brilliant insignia of external distinction 

 become dim the nobility of intelligence, wisdom, and most active and exten 

 sive usefulness. I should bo glad here, if it were proper, to illuminate my page 

 with the names of many distinguished individuals, of whose courtesy and kind 

 ness the recollection will not fail, while any record remains legible on the 

 tablet of my heart ; but this would be contrary to a rule which, with me, has 

 always been absolute in cases of this nature, lest I should be thought even to 

 approach a violation of the confidence of social life. One may wound almost as 

 much by public praise as by censure that delicacy of sentiment which, satisfied 

 with doing good, shrinks from notoriety and ostentation. Nor would I in any 



