ft 4-2- 



PKEFACE 



The following pages are but a transcript of occa- 

 sional notes made during the few months' study- 

 requisite for the profitable conduct of a small farm 

 which I hold, as at least a restorative adjunct on 

 which to blow off spare steam after the day spent 

 amidst the laborious duties and anxieties of scholastic 

 life, illustrated by a few years' subsequent practical 

 experience. 



Once away from the University the wonted " con- 

 stitutional " seems to lose its virtue, and before many 

 weeks of the half-year are spent, I have always found 

 that each neighbouring road seems to trail with Tri- 

 gonometry; each fence is hung with Prosody. 



Well adapted, then, are the ever-changing aspect 

 and chequered vicissitudes of agricultural occupation 

 to refresh the exhausted chalice of one's existence. 

 That this little volume shall teach any except the 

 tyro I do not hope or expect, for I pretend to no ori- 

 ginality whatever. If it only gives one-thousandth 

 part of the pleasure to such readers as may farm 

 themselves as it has yielded me in the composi- 



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