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and comprehensive exposition of the fundamental principles of 

 practical and scientific agriculture. We trust it may find its way 

 into every School District Library in the State. District School 

 Journal* 



NORTON'S ELEMENTS OK SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE. 



This is the work to which was awarded the Premium of $100 

 by the New York State Agricultural Society. It is a small book 

 of some 200 pages, but a great one, in its best sense, containing 

 the elements of scientific agriculture. Its language is plain, its 

 illustrations simple. It is a work for the farmer, and the farmer 

 should read it, and teach it to his children. Genese*. Farmer. 



NORTON'S ELEMENTS OF SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE. 



The design of this work, in the language of the author, is to 

 u clearly and distinctly explain the great principles that are in 

 volved in the applications of science to agriculture." In reference 

 to the manner in which this design has been carried out, we can 

 not better express our own views than by the adoption of the lan 

 guage of the committee by whom the examination of the essay 

 was made, and the prize of $100 awarded^. 



The committee closed their report by recommending tnat the 

 work be adopted for the District School Libraries. The Execu 

 tive Committee of the State Agricultural Society have also passed 

 a resolution authorising the printing of one thousand copies at the 

 expense of the Society, to be awarded as premiums. We are con 

 fident the work will me^t with a ready demand, and that it will 

 be read and studied with great satisfaction and advantage by all 

 who are interested in the principles of agriculture. Albany Cul 

 tivator. 



ELEMENTS OF SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTUKE, or the Connection be 

 tween Science and the Art of Practical Farming, 

 It is by Professor Norton, of Yale College, and is one of the few 

 plain scientific works upon the culture of the soil, that every man 

 of good common sense can comprehend, and may be to the farmer 

 what Blackstone is to the lawyer, a text book It is as applica 

 ble to Southern culture as to Northern, for it embraces all the 

 science of the earth's tillage, the elements of plants, the consti 

 tuents of soils, the composition of the air, the acids, gasses, and 

 the alkalies, and the part that each and every one takes in per 

 fecting crops of all kinds, the composition of manures, and in 

 short every thing that will explain .why a plant wants food, and 

 how it will take its food, and what kind of food is proper for it. 

 Messrs. Pease $ Co. will please accept our thanks. There is 

 not a printed book in the Union which could have been more ac- 



