PREFACE. 



This Treatise was prepared at the re- 

 quest of the President and Council of 

 the Royal Agricultural Society of Eng- 

 land, to exhibit a general view of 

 British Agriculture, for the information 

 of European Agriculturists at the Inter- 

 national Agricultural Congress of Paris, 

 in 1878. For this purpose it was trans- 

 lated into French by M. de la Trehonnais, 

 and so published in Paris. It will be 

 included, with other contributions on 

 analogous subjects, in the forthcoming 

 number of the Journal of the Royal 

 Agricultural Society. A chapter on the 

 future of the Landed Interests of this 

 country has now been added, and as the 

 subject is one of general concern, an 

 Edition in this form has been prepared. 



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8, ()ueen's Gate Gardens, 



London, September, 1878. 



