able compend on this subject, that could be placed in the hands of 

 the students and pupils of our academies and common schools. I 

 cordially and cheerfully recommend it to parents and teachers, 

 and trust it will find its way into every school, and every district 

 library. Very respectfully, your ob't serv't, 



CHRISTOPHER MORGAN, 



Sup't of Common Schools. 

 I fully concur in the preceding recommendation, 



SAMUEL S. RANDALL, 

 Editor of District School Journal. 



Elements of Scientific Agriculture, or the Connection between 

 Science and the Art of Practical Farming. Prize Essay of the 

 New York State Agricultural Society. By John P. Norton, 

 Professor of Scientific Agriculture in Yale College. Albany: 

 Erastus H. Pease Co. New Haven: T. H. Pease, pp. 208. 

 1850. 



We should be glad to see this volume in the possession of every 

 family in the State, and taught in every school in the State. We 

 know of no knowledge which would act so directly on the pros 

 perity of our citizens, as a knowledge of the scientific principles 

 of Agriculture hardly any, which would tend more to elevate 

 the intellectual character of the people. Agriculture as here ex 

 pounded, has that combination of the Practical and the Theoreti 

 cal, which, while it elevates the former above mere toil, and re 

 lieves it of much of its laboriousness, gives healthful exercise to 

 the intellect, and restrains the latter within the bounds of legiti 

 mate inductions. We have read this book with care, and we do 

 not hesitate to give it our unqualified approbation. It has several 

 peculiar excellencies. In the first place it is really scientific. The 

 scientific principles upon which the Art of agriculture rests, are 

 derived from various sciences, but especially from Chemistry. 

 Now there is a very great difference between reading upon these 

 subjects so as to compile a book, and writing on these subjects 

 from a mastery of them a difference between that general infor 

 mation which belongs to all well read men, and true scientific 

 men. We doubt not the judgment of 



the New York State Agricultural Society, who awarded to it its 

 prize, will be fully confirmed by the community. The New Eng- 



ELKMENTAKY PRINCIPLES OF SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE. By 

 John P. Norton, M. A., Professor-of Scientific Agriculture in 

 Yale College. 

 This work is published under tne immediate auspices of the 



New York State Agricultural Society, and is a full, complete. 



