SECTION I. 



INTRODUCTION. 



TN a country fo much famed for its im- 

 -* provements in the various branches of 

 fcience, and where agriculture in particular 

 has by no means been negledted, it may feem 

 furprifing, tliat no regular or uniform fyftem 

 has yet been adopted. For my own part, af- 

 ter more than thirty years experience and ftu- 

 dy, not only by reading, but by the moft 

 diligent practical obfervations I have been a- 

 ble to make in many places of Britain, I muft 

 own, that I am every day more and more 

 confirmed in what I have already laid before 

 the public on that fubjedl ; not only from 

 the obfervations which I ftill make, when oc- 

 cafionally paffing through the country, but 

 by converfation with the moft intelligent 

 practical farmers, who, in the general, from 

 their own experience, agree with what has 

 been faid ; as well as from a confideration of 

 the great improvements which might ftill be 

 A made 



