11 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIFTH EDITION. 



the work may afterwards be reprinted, with corrections, at a 

 moderate expense, when any additional knowledge of impor- 

 tant facts is acquired. The diffusion of useful information, 

 will thus be rapidly and essentially promoted. 



In addition to a Code of Agriculture, it would be high- 

 ly desirable, to have a separate Work " On the Minutiae of 

 " Farming ; " which the Author thinks might be condensed 

 within the limits of a volume of similar size. How the exe- 

 cution of such a plan is to be effected, requires much con- 

 sideration ; and it seems, on the whole, to be better adapted, 

 for the exertions of a respectable Society, than for those of 

 a single individual. A particular branch of the subject, un- 

 der its authority, might be allotted to one person, the most 

 likely to be acquainted with its details ; and his performance 

 should be circulated, in a printed form, for the purpose of 

 collecting the result of the observations and experience of 

 all the most intelligent Practical Farmers in the country. A 

 Work would thus be obtained, by means of which many 

 useful modes of practice would be generally disseminated, 

 and many errors in husbandry would be pointed out. The 

 trifling expense which such a plan might occasion, would be 

 most amply compensated, by the permanent advantages that 

 would be derived from it. 



JOHN SINCLAIR. 



133 George Street, Edinburgh. 1 

 1831. 



