PREFACE. 



'HE Editors' aims in the preparation of the CANADIAN HOME, 

 FARM, AND BUSINESS CYLOP^DIA have been thoroughly 

 practical. Their motive was to place within the reach of 

 every householder a treasury of reference in all that 

 concerns the Home and its affairs, Business Life and its 

 duties, and such information as great practical experience 

 could suggest in the cultivation and management of the 

 Farm. 



Almost every one has felt the need of a work to which one 

 could turn in any difficulty for just such facts as this Cyclopaedia will fur- 

 nish facts relative to the concerns of every day life, its duties and its plea- 

 sures, and the means by which the former is lightened and the latter cn- 

 hanced. To obtain this information has hitherto involved the search 

 through many volumes, which could only be acquired at much expense. 

 Here it will be found in a concise and well-arranged compendium, "to be 

 read and understood of all men;" and the assistance afforded will no 

 doubt be appreciated. 



A reference to the contents will show what a field of inquiry the work 

 covers. Rarely within the scope of a single volume have so many subjects 

 ully compressed: with such a wealth of material presented to 

 tin- reader, no one can fail to find either what he is in search of. r s 



that may ! iis-fiil to him through lit'*-. 



The CANADIAN H'>MI: 1 AI:M AND BUSINESS CYCLOPEDIA. 1>< 

 it- opening chapters on Home Amenities, will be found n-plete in all that 



to home education, home arts, hum.- pleasures, lion 

 ami hoi, 



Large space is takm up with Kxrift] form- and th- usages of polite 



In- l.rm-tit of thosr <f 1 .. th sexes, who seek to shin ind 



forth*- information of all who desire to appear in the world toth. highest 



who are well informed in rosp.-ct to 



-e matters are som-tim. .n ,i 1,,^ to know w o-rtain 



circumstances. To all such this department of the work must be welc< 



