PREFACE. 



THE recent alterations in the laws regulating the admission 

 of agricultural produce into this country, have made a great 

 change in the circumstances and prospects of the British farmer, 

 leaving him to contend against the light taxation and the cheap 

 labour of the foreigner. This being the case, it has become 

 quite indispensable that the landed proprietor and the farmer 

 should call to their aid whatever assistance science and art can 

 furnish in the practical operations of the farm. 



The Publishers of this Work having, in Morton's Cyclopedia 

 of Agriculture, already furnished a complete manual for the 

 Work of the Farm, trust that the following extensive set of 

 Tables, which have been prepared with great care, will prove a 

 valuable assistant in all calculations relating to Land-Measuring, 

 Planting, Manuring, Draining, the Weight of Stacks and of 

 Cattle by Measurement, and in a great variety of other matters 

 connected with the arithmetic of the Farm. They must thus 

 prove of essential service to the Proprietor, Land-steward, Land- 

 surveyor, &c., no less than to the Farmer, as an unfailing refer- 

 ence in calculations of daily occurrence. 



The Tables have been drawn up with special reference to the 

 requirements of the various matters to which they are applic- 

 able, and embrace almost every subject connected with agri- 

 cultural affairs in which calculations are required. Many of 

 the Tables are wholly original, others were suggested by Tables 

 in similar works, but none have been implicitly copied, all 

 having been adapted to the plan of the present Work by exten- 

 sion or re-arrangement, and in every case they have been 

 re-calculated. It is hoped that the entire series will be found 

 better suited to the wants of the practical man than any Tables 

 previously extant. 



