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AGfilC. 

 LIBRARY 



PREFACE. 



The purpose of the present work, which is 

 taken, almost entirely, from papers, (by F*** and 

 Mallet,) in the " Dictionnaire des Arts et Manufac- 

 tures," is to present to the Agricultural public, in 

 a familiar and intelligible manner, the methods by 

 which to restore and preserve the fertility of 

 Soils. 



The qualitative and quantitative adaptation of alii 

 the various manures, their composition, relative 

 value, modes of preparation and behaviour, are- 

 fully considered; and the incidental and expressivr- 

 tabular matter with which the Book is further ers- 

 riched, render it emphatically the Farmer's Guidi 

 Book and Field Companion. 



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