EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE 



AND 



RURAL ECONOMY 



FROM PERSONAL OBSERVATION. 



BY 



HENRY COLMAN, 



HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND, OF THB 



NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF FRANCE, AND OF THE NATIONAL 



AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES. 



&quot; For, in all things whatever, the mind is the most valuable and the most important ; 

 and in this scale the whole of agriculture is in a natural and just order ; the beast is an 

 informing principle to the plough and cart, the laborer is as reason to the beast, and the 

 farmer is as a thinking and presiding principle to the laborer.&quot;- BURKE. 



VOL. II. 



FOURTH EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS 



BOSTON: 

 PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & COMPANY. 



NEW YORK : CHARLES M. SAXTON. PHILADELPHIA : THOMAS, COWPERTHWAIT 

 fe CO. BALTIMORE : GUSHING fc BROTHER. CHARLESTON, S. C.: 



M CAKTER & ALLEN. CINCINNATI : H. w. DERBY 



& CO. BUFFALO : G. H. DERBY & CO. 



1851. 



