PREFACE. 



IN presenting to agriculturists our third volume, we 

 evince our desire to promote their interests, by promulgating 

 all the information our correspondents have favoured us 

 with, on the subjects we deem generally important. Some, 

 of minor consideration, have been omitted. But we thank- 

 fully acknowledge, the public and patriotic motives of all. 

 We should be highly gratified by the increase in number of 

 our correspondents ; because it would evidence an increase 

 of a spirit of true patriotism, in thus diffusing a knowledge 

 of the art, by which the great body of our citizens^ in this 

 agricultural country, not only gain a plentiful subsistence, 

 but contribute to that of others ; and mainly augment the 

 public prosperity. The reception given to our former pub- 

 lications, justifies a hope, that the present will be favour- 

 ably, and, we trust, profitably accepted. AVe conceive that 

 it will not suffer by a comparison w ith our former volumes ; 

 as many subjects are brought forward well worthy attention. 



If the circumstances of our country require an extension 

 of domestic manufactures, and especially of those in which 

 capitalists engage ; the labours of the husbandman should 

 be encouraged, as all-important to them. 



Whilst our belligerent situation blocks up the channels of 

 external commerce, and calls our citizens to the fields of 

 warfare, thereby abstracting from agriculture, the labour- 

 ers it demands ,• it is the more necessary to know how to use 

 the number spared to us, with the greatest economy and ad- 

 vantage. In such case we must endeavour to raise the great- 

 est product, from the more limited surface to which our ca- 

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