INTRODUCTION. 



THERE are at present a variety of obstacles to the 

 advancement of Agriculture in these kingdoms, or to 

 the produdion of the greatest quantity of food from the 

 soil. Amongst this variety there are those of a nature 

 not to be removed but by the arm of Government ; whilst 

 there are others wjiich only require due exertions on the 

 part of individuals. 



The slow progress which Agriculture has hitherto made 

 as a science, is to -be ascribed to a want of education on 

 the part of the cultivators of the soil, and the want of* 

 knowledge, in such Authors as have written on Agricul- 

 ture, of the intimate connexion that subsists between this 

 science and that of Chemistry. Indeed there is no opera- 

 tion or process, not merely mechanical, that does not de- 



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