CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I. 



Page. 



Importance of Agriculture to a Nation, .... 9 



CHAPTER II. 



The Improvement of our Agriculture practicable 



and necessary, 16 



CHAPTER III. 



Some of the Principles of the New and Improved 

 Husbandry, 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- 



mentof the Mind, 28 



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

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



temporal Duties of Life, 33 



CHAPTER V. 

 Earths and Soils, 35 



CHAPTER VI. 

 Improvement of the Soil. — ^Preliminary Operations, 53 



CHAPTER VII. 

 Analogy between Animal and Vegetable Nutrition, 57 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Further Improvement of the Soil, ...... 62 



1* 



