VI PREFACE. 



limited, and the supply inadequate to the demand. 

 Now that a taste for agricultural information and 

 agricultural improvement has become more gen- 

 eral, and that these writings are not to be found 

 in the market, the subscriber has been induced to 

 unite them in one volume, and to subjoin such 

 notes as a lapse of twenty years has, in a meas- 

 ure, rendered expedient, on account of the im- 

 provements which have, during that time, been 

 made in rural economy ; and, in preparing this 

 new edition, he is persuaded that he is rendering 

 an acceptable servic^to the agriculturist and to 

 the community at large. 



J. BTTEL. 



Albany, June, 1839. 



