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amount of muck, which has been in, after being 

 thoroughly decomposed by the lime and salt mixture. 



This farmer reads and thinks; his knowledge of 

 the reasons of various agricultural effects enables him 

 to discard the injudicious suggestion of the book- 

 farmers^ and uneducated dreamers, and take only the 

 facts worthy of experiment. 



Here are two specimen farmers. Neither descrip- 

 tion is over-drawn. The first is much more, careful 

 in his operations, than the majority of our farmers. 

 The last, is no better than many who may be found 

 in every State in the Union. We appeal to the 

 common sense of the reader of this work, to know 

 which of the two is the practical farmer let him 

 imitate either, as his judgment will dictate. 



The author is aware that hardly any class of men 

 arc so difficult to be reached as farmers, and the 

 undertaking is hazardous. They arc terribly afraid 

 of being " humbugged" and thereby very often 

 humbug themselves. For years, this little work has 

 been in the thoughts, and on the mind of the author. 

 His own experience as a farmer, combined with 

 study and observation, since he lost his leg in the 

 late war, enables him to submit it to the farmers of 

 the South, for their most careful attention. 



Although farmers, as a class, are hard to convince, 

 yet, no class of men are so open to conviction, so 

 alive to manly principles, so susceptible of good 

 impressions, when the effort to aid them is judicious, 

 and worthy of attention. 



END OF TART FIRST. 



