Vi PREFACE 



Book ;" Henry S. Randall, L.L. D., author of " The Practical 

 Shepherd ;" George H. Dadd, V. S. ; Andrew S. Fuller, Peter B. 

 Mead, and Dr. C. W. Grant, of New York ; George Hussman, of 

 Mo. ; Edmund Morris, of New Jersey ; Donald G. Mitchell, of New 

 Haven, Conn. ; Charles B. Williams, of Va. ; Joseph B. Lyman, 

 of La. ; Fearing Burr, Jr., of Boston, author of " The Field and 

 Garden Vegetables of America ;" Marshall P, Wilder,. Robert M. 

 Copeland, Joseph Breck, and Edward S. Rand, of Boston ; 

 Patrick Barry, of Rochester, New York ; L. L. Langstroth, of 

 Ohio, and many others. To all these gentlemen the author 

 tenders his most sincere acknowledgments. 



In writing this volume, the author has kept steadily in view 

 the requirements of the East, the West, and the South with 

 her fields newl}^ opening to agricultural enterprise. That it will 

 fully meet the wants of every farmer is too much to expect ; but 

 that it will more fully meet them than any other single volume 

 is his hope and belief. With the sole desire that it may be of 

 permanent value to his brethren of the Plow, the author commits 

 it to the Press. 



Near Philadelphia, ) 

 October 1, 1868. j 



