INTRODUCTION. 



I HAVE, at the moment of commencing the 

 following little volume, two classes of readers 

 in my view the one belonging to the city; the 

 other to the country. It is my design to benefit 

 both. 



But, pray, what interest can one born in the 

 city, and who expects there to spend his days, 

 have in farming operations 1 Let us see. 



Perhaps you are one day to become a mer 

 chant, a manufacturer, a lawyer, or a judge, and 

 you are to live in a fine house, either in Boston 

 or New York, or some other large city, and 

 you ask, what have / to do with farming ? 



