PREFACE 



TO THE 



SIXTH EDITION. 



THE decided favour of the Public having 

 taken off five very large Editions of this 

 Work, and the country friends of the Author, 

 during some time past, having repeated their 

 opinions, that a new impression was in request, 

 and would doubtless be acceptable, it is at 

 length presented to the country, with consi- 

 derable additions, and every species of im- 

 provement within the author's view or recol- 

 lection. 



Two Articles have been added on CHEESE 

 and CIDER ; with also a few wood cuts, which, 

 although we are not so. ostentatiously modish 

 or modest as to style, ' pictorial embellish- 

 ments/ we yet trust will pass muster, at least 

 with some readers. With respect to the 

 figure of the Cow in the Frontispiece, the 

 County of Suffolk has been retained inaccu- 

 rately ; the figure of one differently bred 

 having been substituted at the request of her 

 proprietor, who has also noted an accidental 

 omission in the account of Pea fowls ; namely, 

 of the number of days during which the hen 

 sits. Now, the writer never having bred any 



