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they may be deemed more faithful than any second- 

 hand copy. 



Our labours being ended, it only remains to add 

 that we hope our little work may have the effect of 

 inducing some of our agricultural friends to look 

 into the principles connected with the various ope- 

 rations which they daily superintend, as by so doing 

 agriculture will be really elevated to a science; 

 whereas, by merely copying what has been done 

 before, we shall only be empirics, practising rational 

 empiricism it is true, but still coming short of that 

 light and knowledge which is the life, — the science 

 of our profession. 



J. B. 



Bradford Abbas, Dorset, 

 Sept. 25, 1865. 



COX AND M'YMAN, PRINTERS, GREAT QUEEN STREET, LONDON, W.C. 



