CHAPTER I. 



IMPORTANT INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS. 



WITHIN the past few years, several valuable 

 additions have been made to the agricultural 

 literature of our country, by some of the most 

 practical, scientific men of the times, and we 

 suppose that the publication of another book on 

 the subject of farming, and its interests, may at 

 this time, be considered unnecessary. 



But when we have stated the reasons that 

 lead us to issue this publication, and the im- 

 portant interests we intend to discuss, we think 

 the public at large, and especially our progressive 

 farmers, who desire to elevate their profession 

 and raise the largest crops with the least possible 

 outlay, without impairing the value of their 

 lands, will agree with us, that the imforma- 

 tion contained in this book has long been needed, 

 and that its publication is only the natural 

 working of the law of demand and supply. 

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