PREFACE. 



The Few Prime Facts, submitted to the Public in 

 the following pages, are gathered from patient observation 

 and carefully conducted experiments, through many years 

 of practical enquiry and close investigation ; not, however, 

 by a mere book man, — a vague theoriest, but a Practical 

 Farmer, and most successful Fruit Grower. 



He sensibly felt the evils to which these Facts refer, and 

 early sat himself down in an absolute wilderness of conject- 

 ure, to discover the causes of them. The progress was slow ; 

 but the end was sure ; and each cause, as it became fairly de- 

 veloped, almost invariably pointed out a remedy for the evil 

 which it inflicted. 



He now comes, at his earliest convenience, to place both 

 the cause of these evils, and the cure of them before his coun- 

 trymen ; and he does it, not in abstruce technicalities and 

 erudite phrases, but in plain, farmer-like language, and in 

 terms suited to common capacities. 



He indulges the hope that his brief statements will prompt 

 to further and more scientific investigation, and that they 

 may finally lead to a high degree of perfection, in the pres- 

 ervation of the horse and the cow, and in the cultivation of 

 fruit trees. 



He here takes the freedom of saying, should this labor of 

 his hands be kindly received and honestly rewarded, he has 

 some other facts with respect to the Bee, the Bee-house, &c 

 which shall be given in a future number. 



Author. 



