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ushered before our attention with all the force that con- 

 sideration of decency, health, and economy can lend ; and 

 the most thoughtful attention is asked for its claims. It is 

 really the coining Reform, and promises more for civiliza- 

 tion, and for national prosperity, than any improvement that 

 has yet been brought to the notice of the public. 



To sum up, then : this book is offered as containing more 

 that has been proven by long use to be of value ; more that 

 it is most necessary for every farmer and mechanic to know ; 

 and more of promising novelty, than any other that has ever 

 been presented to the farmers and mechanics of America. 



It is complete in every particular in which it is possible 

 for such a book to be complete, and, in addition to this, it 

 is sufficiently suggestive in many other respects to induce 

 its readers to read more, to think more, to experiment more, 

 and to become more intelligent and more successful in the 

 management of their business, as well as really happier and 

 wiser men. 



If it should be thought that I claim too much for a single 

 Hand- Book, which is mainly filled with dry details con- 

 cerning the measurement of boards, and the spacing of trees 

 in an orchard, I trust that I shall at least not be condemned 

 as an enthusiast until the reader has taken the trouble to 

 examine carefully what I have to say, and to consider well 

 to what better things the helping hand of Nature may lead 

 him if he has the wisdom to heed its beckonings. 



GEO. E. WARING, JR. 

 OGDEN FARM, NEWPORT, R. I., September, 1868. 



