8 PREFACE. 



ture have attained the utmost degree of perfection of which 

 it is capable. 



We cannot close these prefatory remarks without tender- 

 ing our thanks to Mr. J. R. Newell, proprietor of the Bos- 

 ton Agricultural Warehouse, and Mr. G. C. Barkett, pro- 

 prietor of the New England Farmer, and of the Boston Seed 

 Store, for facilities and information aflbrded for the work 

 which we have here submitted to the agricultural community. 

 To Mr. Newell we are indebted for the Cuts and Descriptions 

 which come under the head ' Agricultural Implements,' page 

 329 ; and Mr. Barrett has assisted us in the plan of this 

 treatise. These gentlemen have for sale, at No. 52 North 

 Market Street, Boston, the Machines, Implements, Seeds, 

 &€., described or referred to in the following pages. 



T. G. Fessenden. 



Boston, May, 1834. 



ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION. 



The first edition of The Complete Farmer and Rural Eco- 

 iwmist has met with a kind reception from a liberal and en- 

 lightened community, and a more rapid sale than the Author's 

 most sanguine hopes had led him to anticipate. It has also 

 been honored by favorable notices and reviews from compe- 

 tent judges, some of which are given on a preceding page. 

 These encouraging circumstances have induced him to re- 

 vise and correct it with care and circumspection, and to add 

 several articles, including Rice, Tobacco, &;c. with a view to 

 adapt it to the southern, as well as to the middle and north- 

 ern section of the Union. 



In preparing the present edition for the press we have so- 

 licited the scrutiny, and been assisted with the advice of 

 several gentlemen, eminent as practical and scientific culti- 

 vators, to whom we tender our best acknowledgments. And 

 we beg leave to state that we are under great obligations to 

 the Hon. John Lowell, who has revised the present edition, 

 and thus given additional proof of his ability and readiness 

 to promote the great art to which this little work is devoted, 

 and of which he has long been a zealous, liberal and enlight- 

 ened patron. T. G. F. 



