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TH E bunneis defcribed in this book 

 requires no fuud to begin it : it 

 may be perfonn'd by the poor and weak, 

 the young and aged, women and children. 

 This, and the culture of filk in fome of 

 our America?! colonies now becoming an 

 objeil of publick concern, were the prin- 

 cipal motives of my engaging in this fub- 

 je6t. 



To -write Upon any thing which is the 

 immediate obje6l of pradice, is by no 

 means fo ufelefs as the bulk of pradlitioncrs 

 imagine. Agriculture and all the paits of 

 Hulbandry have long been Arts of common 

 pradtice, and yet will be fubjedls proper 

 to be treated, fo long as they are Arts ca- 

 pable of improvement J and, even tho' they 

 were capable of no further improvement, 

 yet it is neceflary to make publick what is 

 already known, that perfons who have not 

 the opportunity of living inftrudlors may 

 be encouraged to begin their journey by 

 having fome dire6lions of their road. In 

 France^ tho' the culture of filk has long 

 A 3 been 



