PREFACE. 



THIS Treatise was prepared at the re- 

 quest of the President and Council of 

 the Royal Agricultural Society of Eng- 

 land, to exhibit a general view of 

 British Agriculture, for the information 

 of European Agriculturists at the Inter- 

 national Agricultural Congress of Paris, 

 in 1878. For this purpose it was trans 

 lated into French by M. de la Trehonnais, 

 and so published in Paris. It was then 

 published, with other contributions on 

 analogous subjects, in the Journal of the 

 Royal Agricultural Society, and as a 

 separate work in this form. A fourth 

 edition having been called for, the oppor- 

 tunity has been taken to make such 

 emendations as have been rendered neces- 

 sary by the increasing pressure of foreign 

 competition. 



J. c. 



8, QUEEN'S GATE GARDENS, 

 LONDON, June, 1880. 



