it? predecessor, and it is only offered at all because there 

 t> a sad deficiency in this department of our agricul- 

 tural literature. 



The place that it is intended to fill is occupied by no 

 other work. It is not au agricultural chemistry, nor is it a 

 hand-book of the processes of every-day farming ; only an 

 attempt to translate into common language, for the use of 

 every-day farmers, that which science has discovered and 

 has tol<l in its own necessarily technical terms, and which 

 practical experience has proven to be of practical value. 



The tacts which it sets forth lie at the very ground-work 

 of the art of farming, and they are necessary to the business 

 education of every farmer. On the universal importance of 

 these facts the book must depend for its success ; and for 

 their sake, not because of its own merit, it is confidently 

 offered to the young farmers of America, as being worthy 

 of their most careful study. 



Oyden Farm, 



Newport, R. /., 1868. 



