PREFACE. IX 



ask the Legislature for Fair Play, in acts of free trade for 

 all classes. 



The personal life of Mr. GISBORNE was, for nearly 

 half-a-century, connected with the stirring events and 

 party-action of his day ; but in all his writings on Agri- 

 culture, and in his speeches at Farmers' Meetings and 

 Agricultural Societies, he ever avoided controversial poli- 

 tics. On such occasions and times, Agriculture was his 

 only text; his single object the advancement of the Art 

 of Husbandry. 



H. S. 



Yoxall Lodge, Staffordshire, 

 20th October, 1853. 



