Rhode-Island District^ 8,^. 



Be if remembered^ That on this thirtieth day of 

 ^ December in the Year of our Lord One Thousand 

 1^ Eight Hundred and Twenty Three, and in the forty 

 ^eighth year of the Independence of the United States 

 ^ of America, Willisun Drown, of said District, deposit- 

 ed in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he 

 claims as proprietor, in the following words, to wit : " Compend- 

 him of Agriculture, or the Farmer's Guide, in the most essential 

 parts of Husbandry and Gardening ; compiled from the best Amer- 

 ican and European publications, and the unwritten opinions of ex- 

 perienced cultivators. ' Hale not laborious work, neither husb- 

 andry, which the Most High hath ordained.' — Son, of Sirach. — 

 ' Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent 

 citizens.' — Jefferson. By William Drown, with the aid and in- 

 spection of Solomon Drown, M. D." 



In conformity to an act of Congress of the United State, entitled 

 " an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the 

 copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of 

 such copies during the time therein mentioned ;" and also to an 

 act, entitled *■' an act for the encouragement of learning, by se- 

 curing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and 

 proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned, and 

 extending the benefit thereof to the art of designing, engraving and 

 etching historical and other prints." 



Witness, BENJAMIN COWELL, 



Clerk of ifit Rhode-Island District,, 



