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DEVOTED TO 

 AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND RURAL AND DOMESTIC AFFAIRS. 



Perfect Agriculture is the true foundation of all trade and industry. — Liebio. 



Vol. IX.— No. 11.] 



6th mo. (June) 14th, 1845. 



[Whole No. 125. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY, 



BY JOSIAH TATUM, 



EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, 



No. 50 North Fourth Street, 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Price one dollar per year. — Forconditions see lastpage. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Colman's Agricultural Tour. 



To THE Editor, — I have been so delighted 

 with the perusal of the numbers of this work 

 as they have successively appeared, that I 

 take the trouble to forward the greater part 

 of the thirty-sixth section, which I find in 

 the third number. Perhaps few men could 

 be found more thoroughly qualified for the 

 task he has undertaken, than the author of 

 these Reports. Those made a few years 

 since to the Legislature of Massachusstts, 

 as agricultural surveyor of that State, estab- 

 lished the character of our author as a man 

 of great industry, close observation, and sound 

 judgment. Intelligent, aflTable and commu- 

 nicative, he has been able to sustain himself 

 with great credit in the best social circles 

 of England, as vvell as to do his country 

 credit by his public Addresses at the great 

 agricultural meetings which are so frequent- 

 ly occurring among our friends on the other 



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side of the Atlantic. We obtain from the 

 work in question, an insight into the agri- 

 cultural cliaracter and habits of the people, 

 which, so far as I know, we would fail in 

 seeking elsewhere. And when we recol- 

 lect that his inquiries will embrace not only 

 a detailed view of the husbandry of England, 

 Scotland and Ireland, but likewise of French, 

 Flemish, Swiss, German and Italian hus- 

 bandry, we perceive the field over which he 

 will labour, is not only of great extent, but 

 will have also the advantage of being a great 

 part of it almost new to us. We know com- 

 paratively but little of French farming; or in- 

 deed of that of the continent generally. We 

 may anticipate in this branch of the subject 

 a particularly rich treat. In Great Britain 

 we feel more at home — more among our 

 kinsmen and familiar acquaintances, than 

 we can do on the continent, and it will be 

 exceedingly interesting to observe how the 

 farming operations and general economy of 

 these strangers shall strike our tourist. 



The extract which I submit for insertion 

 in the Cabinet, will not fail to interest every 

 one of its readers : though I could wish that 

 every subscriber to the Cabinet was also a 

 subscriber to Colman's work, for I am sure 

 it will hardly be read by any one without 

 pleasure and instruction. Before I close, I 

 may just observe, that while we must com- 

 mend the care in our author to do justice 

 both to himself and his readers, by not too 

 rapidly publishing his work, some of us get 

 pretty impatient at the interval between the 



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