tined to exert a salutary influence upon the agriculture of our 

 state and nation. The State Agricultural Society are entitled to 

 the thanks of the agricultural interest, for bringing before the 

 public this valuable work. Albany Evening Journal. 



ELEMENTS OF SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE. 



The name of Prof. Norton is becoming widely known in this 

 country in connection with scientific agriculture. After receiving 

 the best education which Europe could afford in the profession to 

 which he had devoted himself, he has been since his return most 

 usefully employed in extending a knowledge of the subject among 

 his own countrymen. 



The present work was originally written as an Essay for the 

 Agricultural Society, and received from the judges appointed for 

 that purpose, the highest premium, while the executive commit 

 tee ordered the printing of one thousand copies, to be awarded as 

 premiums of the society. This would of itself be a sufficient en 

 dorsement. Albany State Register. 



NORTON'S ELEMENTS OF SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE, 



We look upon it as one of the most valuable contributions to 

 Agricultural literature that the press has sent forth. Its defini 

 tions of the properties, constituents, uses, and offices of the vari 

 ous substances which comprise soils and their products; its 

 explanations of the several kinds of manures and their specific 

 actions, of the composition of plants, the feeding of crops and ani 

 mals, the remarks on the produce of the dairy, on the nature of 

 chemical analysis, and the application of Geology to Agriculture, 

 are all so plain that he who runs may read, and reading, compre- 

 nend what he reads. It appears to have been the great object of 

 the enlightened author, to accommodate his writing to the gene 

 ral mind. Though he has necessarily had to deal in the technicals 

 of science, he has explained each, in its turn, in so easy and fa 

 miliar a way, that all may understand not only the meaning of 

 the term used, but tb^ office and relation which the particular 

 substance named bears to the earth. As an elemental book, for 

 clearness, simplicity, and practicalness, it has no superior. It 

 should not only be introduced into every literary institution in the 

 country, but find a place in the dwelling of every Agriculturist 

 who may desire to understand the close affinity which the science 

 of chemistry bears to the noble art by which he obtains his living, 

 and how essential its knowledge is to a successful and profitable 

 prosecution of his labors. 



We unhesitatingly commend Prof. Norton's work to our read- 



