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CONTENTS. 



Page 



Advertisement, iii 



Eulogy, v 



Preface, 3 



CHAPTER I. 

 Importance of Agriculture to a Nation, 9 



CHAPTER H. 



The Improvement of our Agriculture practicable and 

 necessary, 16 



CHAPTER ni. 



Some of the Principles of the New and Improved Hus- 

 bandry, 21 



CHAPTER IV. 



Agriculture considered as an Employment, ... 26 



^1. As a Means of obtaining Wealth, ... 27 

 §2. As promotive of Health and the Develope- 



ment ofthe Mind, 28 



§3. As a Means of individual Happiness, . . 32 

 ^4. As a Means of enabling us to fulfil the tem- 

 poral Duties of Life, ....... 33 



CHAPTER V. 

 Earths and Soils, 35 



CHAPTER VI. 

 mprovement ofthe Soil. — Preliminary Operations, . 53 



CHAPTER VII. 



iicnalogy between Animal and Vegetable Nutrition, . 57 

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