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and contain much valuable information. But his most 

 important work is, his Elements of Scientific Agriculture. 

 This essay was written for the prize offered by the New 

 York State Agricultural Society, and was successful. It 

 is a most admirable treatise. We said, when it was first 

 published, that it deserved to be placed in the hands of 

 every farmer in the land, and we think still it is the best 

 treatise, for the object it had in view, which has ever 

 been written. The more it is examined, the more its 

 value will appear. His last work was his edition of Ste- 

 phens's Farmer's Guide, to which, by the particular 

 desire of the Edinburgh publishers, the Messrs. Black- 

 wood, he added notes and an appendix, which would of 

 themselves make a small volume, and which much in- 

 creased the value of the original work. We most fully 

 agree with the editor of the Cultivator, that Professor 

 Norton was, " the most practical agricultural writer and 

 thinker of the present time, and that his efforts promised 

 more permanently beneficial results than those of any 

 other man." Nor was his more strictly scientific studies 

 neglected, though, judging it important, first of all, to 

 awaken an interest in such studies by the dissemination 

 of agricultural views, founded on science, he had not 

 devoted so much time to this branch of his department 

 as he would afterwards have done. What he did pub- 

 lish, however, was valuable. We mention, Researches 



